Quotes About Internet

For many kids, the Internet is a means of self-actualization. It allows them to explore who they are and who they want to be, but that works only if we're able to be private and anonymous, to make mistakes without them following us.

according to the NSA documents, provided the agency with direct access to their servers as part of PRISM: Facebook, Google, Apple, YouTube, Skype, and the rest.

Among other devices, the agency intercepts and tampers with routers and servers manufactured by Cisco to direct large amounts of Internet traffic back to the NSA's repositories.

The limits of Mao's system have just about been reached. Party cadres say they want the benefits of the Internet, but they also want to be able to censor it. They say they want to be a technological leader of this century, but they restrict innovation. They say they want a modern society, but they cannot relinquish their hold. Those who rule from Beijing want the benefits of change, but they do not want change itself.

The Internet breaks a 500-year Latin American pattern of monopoly, monopoly of information, economics, social, religious power. It fundamentally gives power to the individual, which is a new development in Latin America. —FERNANDO ESPUELAS

there is one situation worse than too much information: not enough of it. When hard news is scarce, rumors arise everywhere. Rumors don't have to be true, they just have to be spread. And these days the Internet is the channel for their communication.

Hooked on Internet? Help is a just a click away.

What do you call a doctor that fixes websites? A URLologist.

What do you call a doctor that fixes websites? WebMD.

You can't take something off the Internet — it's like taking pee out of a pool.

On the internet, even private is public.

Grammar makes the difference between feeling you're nuts and feeling your nuts.

Home is where the wi-fi connects automatically.

Wikipedia first appeared to Internet users with a simple self-description: HomePage You can edit this page right now! It's a free, community project Welcome to Wikipedia! We're writing a complete encyclopedia from scratch, collaboratively. We started work in January 2001. We've got over 3,000 pages already. We want to make over 100,000. So, let's get to work! Write a little (or a lot) about what you know! Read our welcome message here: Welcome, newcomers!

But I'm getting to a point where I'm trying to stop reading reviews about myself, only because it's a no-win situation. If they say something nice, you get a little ego pump. But people on the Internet are straight-up cruel, and I'm becoming increasingly uncomfortable reading the ridiculous cruelties that people spit out on the Internet.

On the Net, the bell curve reclaims its tails. The uncommon is as accessible as the common. The very fragmentation of the Internet allows us to find ourselves in other people - and to know that we are not alone.

The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive.

You can get anything online, including things that don't even exist. We've invented our own collective unconscious. The normal rules of time and space don't apply. It's held together by some other force than gravity. It's endless. It's like some unimaginably huge, messy novel that's writing itself both with and without us.

The Internet is a great place to find unconventional comedy that you can't find anywhere else.

Through the Internet and technology, anyone can now seek out any artist, composer or undefined niche of music they find interesting. All on their own, without even having to stand up or go anywhere.

Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.

As I got older I became a kind of sub cultural junkie, foraging around in music, street fashion and eventually art, politics and the freakier reaches of the Internet, hunting the next discovery, the next seam of underground gold.

If you shut down 4chan, shut down 8chan, you're just pushing it under the rug. Underground, it's just gonna get worse.

We don't really want to be the 'Late Night' of the Internet. We want to have one foot in the mainstream, one foot in the underground.