Thomas Friedman World Quotations

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.

It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.

Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of the fat out of life.

Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well.

No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat.

Almost all the students who make it to Caltech, one of the best scientific universities in the world, come from public schools. So it can be done.

Communism was a great system for making people equally poor - in fact, there was no better system in the world for that than communism. Capitalism made people unequally rich.

In the hyperconnected world, there is only “good” “better” and “best,

In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny.

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