Quotes About Internet

If it doesn't come through the Internet, it's not really compelling to me.

The last bastion of competitiveness is local advertising sales. There's little being spent by local advertisers on the Internet. That's where local media have leverage.

I'm a complete technophobe. I can't even email.

Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.

To say that Wi-Fi is a critical component of Internet access in today's always-connected society doesn't do it justice.

I couldn't comprehend why someone would film themselves alone in their bedroom and put it online. I thought that was so bizarre. Now I can't imagine not putting my life online and talking to a camera alone in my bedroom; it's become my life.

I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.

The thing that changed everything for me was the Firefox browser. I was pretty bad when it came to computers - I didn't know how powerful the internet could be until I discovered tabbed browsing.

Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server.

Cloud computing is a fact of life.

The Internet has changed the way we communicate with each other, the way we learn about the world and the way we conduct business.

I want more Internet. I want every one of the 6 billion people on the planet to be able to connect to the Internet - I think they will add things to it that will really benefit us all.

When we heard that little dial-up sound, that eeeeee, and then you connected, and you then go and you check your mail and you get that 'you got mail,' you were excited. I mean, that was the thing.

I love connected culture.

The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it's allowed is silos of interest.

Our movements and feelings are constantly monitored, because surveillance is the business model of the digital age.

I am disturbed by how states abuse laws on Internet access. I am concerned that surveillance programmes are becoming too aggressive. I understand that national security and criminal activity may justify some exceptional and narrowly-tailored use of surveillance. But that is all the more reason to safeguard human rights and fundamental freedoms.

I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.

Facebook is not your friend, it is a surveillance engine.

Research In Motion, the owner of BlackBerry, has been asked by a range of governments to comply with surveillance requirements.

If I were a Chinese dissident, I'd be grateful that Cisco had helped bring the Internet to China, but I'd also be outraged that Cisco may have helped the cops keep me under surveillance and catch me trying to organize protest activities.

The Internet may well disempower the nation state, but at the same time, it also strengthens certain specific state functions - like surveillance. As a political entity, it doesn't empower the nation sate. It creates the availability of much more data than the digestive system of the nation state could possibly assimilate.

I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com.

China is building a model for how an authoritarian government can survive the Internet.