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Quotes About Internet

I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.
~ Stephen L. Carter
Washington wants ObamaCare, the people want freedom. Washington wants amnesty, the people want rule of law. Washington wants power over the internet, the people want freedom online.
~ Ted Cruz
It's insane, the internet. Totally craziness. Like a little cancer. People can just do whatever they want, say whatever they want, be totally anonymous. It's totally out of control.
~ Terry Richardson
It's a new medium, it's a universal medium and it's not itself a medium which inherently makes people do good things, or bad things. It allows people to do what they want to do more efficiently.
~ Tim Berners-Lee
As more and more people awaken to the threats against our basic rights online, we must start a debate - everywhere - about the web we want.
~ Tim Berners-Lee
The lnternet is turning economics inside-out. For example, everybody on the internet now wants stuff for free and there are so many free services available.
~ Uri Geller
Obviously there's so much about me on the Internet that you can turn against me, and you can make me into any person you want.
~ Zachary Cole Smith
I love it when these Internet dudes say to me, 'Hey man, we just want to be 'content neutral.'
~ Harvey Weinstein
You should never read online comments if you want to keep thoughts above the belt.
~ Heidi Julavits
I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.
~ Irvine Welsh
I was a very private person. All of a sudden, to see myself all over the internet and be like, "Oh god, do I want people to even hear this stuff?"
~ Jack Tatum
Some people we define as trolls are just critics. Sometimes they have a point. And I hear them. But for the ones who comment "I want to kill you in your sleep," I respond to them too.
~ Jenny Lawson
I wish we had a more open discourse. It's just a shame that with our 24-hour news media and the Internet, people have become so fragmented. They only want to support their own worldview.
~ Jim James
I think that maybe people comment on the internet because they never know if they're going to be able to meet that one person and they want to have a say so, or what have-you.
~ Katy Perry
I think there is a big group of people out there who disagree about what is going on. They want to have their privacy back, they want to have internet freedom.
~ Kim Dotcom
I think that the book in some ways is the most interesting from our own present standpoint, particularly when we want to think about the way the internet is changing us.
~ Nicholas G. Carr
I have wrangles with Facebook, entered fictitious trips because I can't get the map to get off my page, don't want people to know where I live. It is possible to carve out a space that's your own.
~ Nick Harkaway
You know, you can go to the fiftieth thing on a Google list and that's the one you want, but the ones you are going to be directed to are the funders.
~ Noam Chomsky
The war against illegal file-sharing is like the church's age-old war against masturbation. It's a war you just can't win.
~ Lawrence Lessig
If you're not familiar with the Internet, I suggest you look into it. It's a wonderful thing. Except for all that porno.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
The greater accessibility of information through computers and the Internet serves to foster the illusion that the ability to retrieve words and numbers with the click of a mouse also confers the capacity to judge whether those words and numbers represent truth, lies, or something in between.
~ Susan Jacoby
You kids come to work and think you deserve to get paid, even though you don't work. You live on your phones, you live off your parents, while the rest of us make life easy for you by paying you to sit on your asses connected to the Internet." He
~ Susan May
Libraries saw the Internet coming and extended a hand. First they set up computer stations for public use; then they offered free Wi-Fi. Now at Central Library and many other libraries around the country, there are kiosks where anyone can borrow a laptop or tablet computer to use for the day, just the way she might borrow a book.
~ Susan Orlean
transition from pre-Internet to omnipresent-Internet, and who was successfully rigging the library to sail into the future not as a gigantic, groaning, fusty pile of books but as a sleek ship of information and imagination.
~ Susan Orlean