Quotes About Internet

What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS News that's quite outrageous.

The Internet foments outrageous behavior in part because it is a 'gray area' for social interactions.

There's a real contradiction that's difficult to explain to the West and the outside world about China and about the Internet.

There are a lot of people who are overly judgemental on the Internet.

I joined MySpace in September 2003. At that time no one was on there at all. I felt like a loser while all the cool kids were at some other school. So I mass e-mailed between 30,000 and 50,000 people and told them to come over. Everybody joined overnight.

A lack of government oversight hasn't hindered the Internet. Quite the opposite. A hands-off approach is largely responsible for its fantastic growth and success.

The stage has been set. The Internet will increasingly intersect with culture and government, pulsing through society and disrupting and reshaping the relationship between rulers and ruled that has existed for millennial. Ultimately we are still humans with the same timeless desires, but technology is opening new worlds of possibility. It is empowering societies and creating new definitions of community.

Surfing on the Internet is like sex everyone boasts about doing more than they actually do. But in the case of the Internet, it's a lot more.

Going online and asking questions is the best way to learn.

I was informed yesterday that there's a Twitter account for my laugh. Very hard to get used to things like that. Pretty amazing.

Let me start with Yahoo. As we meet today, a Chinese citizen who had the courage to speak his mind on the Internet is in prison because Yahoo chose to share his name and address with the Chinese Government.

Everything becomes buffering, and buffering becomes everything.

It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.

Is it any surprise that the current center of coffee culture, the city of Seattle, home to the Starbucks coffeehouse chain, is also where some of the world's largest software and Internet firms are based? Coffee's association with innovation, reason, and networking—plus a dash of revolutionary fervor—has a long pedigree.

It all seems so curious today as 300 hours' worth of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute.

My two daughters live on Facebook, and social media is their mode of communication.

I just wanna thank all those amazing Internet bloggers out there that hate me day-to-day. I love you! You rock!

We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us.

People commonly use the word 'procrastination' to describe what they do on the Internet. It seems to me too mild to describe what's happening as merely not-doing-work. We don't call it procrastination when someone gets drunk instead of working.

Generation Y is the first generation to spend more time on the Net than watching TV, with 10.6 hours per week watching TV and 12.2 hours surfing the Web.

Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.

If the Internet were everything it is cracked up to be, we would all stay at home and be brilliantly witty and insightful. Yet with so much contradictory information available, there is more reason to travel than ever before: to look closer, to dig deeper, to sort the authentic from the fake; to verify, to smell, to touch, to taste, to hear and sometimes - importantly - to suffer the effects of this curiosity.

I didn't want make art about the internet at all. It's a really hard subject to take on and I did not set out to do that. But, it was real and it was what was happening.

Art is the only power capable of destroying the internet.