The Internet in the 21st Century is as important to our future as highways were in the 20th Century. Like a highway, the Internet must remain free and open for all - not determined by the highest bidders.
Interpretation
The Internet is essential for future progress, akin to the role of highways in the past century.
In this quote, Chuck Schumer emphasizes the critical importance of the Internet in the modern world, paralleling it with the impact that highways had in the previous century. He advocates for the principle that access to the Internet should be universally free and not subject to corporate control, highlighting the need for an open digital landscape that fosters innovation and equality.
In practice
In a speech about digital rights, this quote can emphasize the importance of net neutrality.
There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up, do you feel in the pit of your stomach you can't wait to go to work? And when you're ready to go home Friday afternoon, do you say, 'I can't wait to go home?'
If you take a print magazine with a million person circulation, and a blog with a devout readership of 1 million, for the purpose of selling anything that can be sold online, the blog is infinitely more powerful, because it's only a click away.
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I think a lot of great software has been written by people who are scratching a short-term itch, something which has been niggling them for ages, but in the back of their mind they’ve got a wonderful long-term plan.
If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny
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