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Quotes About Internet

I think people get excited about someone discovering something that blew their mind when they were younger. I think it makes people kind of nostalgic and happy. That's one of the really great things about the Internet, that it can bring people together in that way of just being interested in the same stuff.
~ Tavi Gevinson
Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.
~ James Gleick
Perhaps the number of new hits is not being noted the way it was done in the era of records or cassettes with the emergence of Internet.
~ Jeet Gannguli
We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.
~ Stephen Hawking
Nowadays, ideas can meet and mate very much faster than before, and the Internet is only accelerating this process. So innovation is bound to accelerate.
~ Matt Ridley
Nowhere is the power of the Internet for improving people's lives more evident than in health care.
~ Dean Ornish
Everyone on Twitter - everyone on the Internet - seems so damn certain. Brevity doesn't allow for nuance, and it's a nice complement to confidence.
~ Rumaan Alam
Now, as far as I know, nobody has ever put up the U.S.'s nuclear missiles on the Internet. I mean, it's not something I've heard about.
~ Aaron Swartz
I was in high school when Bill Clinton was impeached for lying under oath about his relationship with Lewinsky. We didn't have social media back then - hell, we didn't have a computer with the Internet in our home - so the details of it all escaped me.
~ Shaun King
Truly huge artistic collaboration on the Internet seems to work only if the gang has a well-defined objective.
~ Clive Thompson
Back then, I could be as obnoxious as I liked and people would still come back for more, they had to, I was Benjamin Cohen, the Dot Com sensation.
~ Benjamin Cohen
First, I used some of my own experiences and observations from attending a public high school. Secondly, I joined in some Internet chat rooms for gays and lesbians.
~ Ellen Muth
I have an obsession with haters: the great mess of the Internet expressing itself. I love to type my name on Twitter and read everything. It's always enlightening to see what they hate about you: I'm not pretty enough to be on stage, or my music doesn't make any sense. It feels good to read that, like I'm heading in the right direction!
~ Christine and the Queens
With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets.
~ Orson Scott Card
Translators need a lot of skills besides fluency in at least two languages; translators need to be excellent writers in their native language and need to be interested in and skilled at terminology research using both paper dictionaries and the Internet.
~ Corinne McKay
Internet Explorer, Microsoft's crashware turd that no one under the age of forty used voluntarily.
~ Cory Doctorow
The theory is that if the Internet can't be controlled, then copyright is dead. The thing is, the Internet is a machine for copying things cheaply, quickly, and with as little control as possible, while copyright is the right to control who gets to make copies, so these two abstractions seem destined for a fatal collision, right?
~ Cory Doctorow
I think we should permanently cut off the internet access of any company that sends out three erroneous copyright notices. Three strikes and you're out, mate.
~ Cory Doctorow
Botnets are supremely powerful, since they can comprise thousands, even hundreds of thousands of computers, scattered all over the Internet, connected to juicy high-speed connections and running on fast home PCs. Those PCs normally function on behalf of their owners, but when the botmaster calls them, they rise like zombies to do his bidding.
~ Cory Doctorow
after Anonymous brought in its Real Name Policy. They
~ Cory Doctorow
Be careful who you choose as your hero or who you choose to deify, be it Clay Aiken or Barack Obama. You put all you're hope and all your dreams and all your ideas about stuff into one human being. They're a human being they're going to let you down. You can't make someone your hero because of something you read on the internet. The internet is not a source of information it is a source of disinformation.
~ Craig Ferguson
I play video games and watch TV, but there's more to life than that. Faxing and the Internet have created a global community. The kid next door has become the kid in Latin America or Asia.
~ Craig Keilburger
His panel was on the digital divide
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
People don't invent things on the Internet. They simply expand on an idea that already exists.
~ Walter Isaacson