Quotes About Internet

The Internet's abundant capacity has removed the old artificial constraints on publishing—including getting our content checked and verified. The new strategy of publishing everything we find out thus results in an immense cloud of data, free of theory, published before verified, and available to anyone with an Internet connection. And this is changing the role that facts have played as the foundation of knowledge.

A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.

The quantum death of Philip Seymour Hoffman. 24 hours before he was "officially" declared dead it was announced on the internet that he had already died. Many people were shocked to hear of his "official" death, especially those who had believed he was already dead. Philip Seymour Hoffman was both dead and alive in the minds of millions simultaneously. A rare death for a rare actor.

By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.

Mobile phones are misnamed. They should be called gateways to human knowledge.

If you can't convert those people to paying customers, you'll have failed at one of Internet marketing's necessities—converting visitors to customers.

America Online customers are upset because the company has decided to allow advertising in its chat rooms. I can see why: you've got computer sex, you can download pornography, people are making dates with 10-year-olds. Hey, what's this? A Pepsi ad? They're ruining the integrity of the Internet!

The Communications Decency Act of 1996 says they can't be held liable for defamation made by third parties. They're considered a vector for other people's free speech, technically, so they're in the clear.

We have the most complete and instant access to information in all of history, and we're using it to watch funny cat videos.

An diesem Abend drehte sich das Gespräch um die unendlichen, glorreichen, immensen Perspektiven der neuen Kommunikationsformen und insbesondere des Internet. Charles war nicht damit einverstanden: Hinter dem technischen Flitterwerk, sagte er, lauere eine neue Art der Entfremdung, die nur zu noch größerem Konsumverhalten und weiterem Verlust an Realitätsbewusstsein und menschlichen Werten beitragen werde.

Move north. Reach the border. Find a coyote. Get across. Take a bus to Denver. There will be churches there. Libraries, internet access, immigrant communities. People willing to help. For now just move north, move north. Get Luca out of danger.

Vivendi will be one of the very few top communications groups of the Internet age. We will have customers all over the globe, providing services through all kinds of technology.

The Internet interprets the US Congress as system damage and routes around it.

The Internet is the aggregate of human derpitude. Listening to the Internet without being confident you've found a well-curated garden relative to the area of concern is a bad idea.

The Net is pretty cool, but the physical world is the best medium ever.

Because major web sites invite anonymous visitor commentary and virtually never monitor it, they contort all of society: Pandora's global box has been opened and everyone has an opinion, no matter how under-informed they might be.

Augur may be destined to become the web's answer to gambling prohibition—it will do to the betting man what the silk road did to the drug user—but you'd never know it from talking to the developers of the system.

I turned on my e-mail

Google is so strange. It promises everything, but everything isn't there. You type in the words for what you need, and what you need becomes superfluous in an instant, shadowed instantaneously by the things you really need, and none of them answerable by Google.

Well, the naivety and the vitriol were always there all along, Iris says. The internet's just made them both more visible. That's maybe a good thing.

I've been looking out at the world through windows I've opened across the net. It's an extremely close-minded and twisted world.

Only on the Internet can a person be lonely and popular at the same time.

I did Google him, you know." "Oh, so you GOOGLED him Oh, well, that changes everything then, doesn't it? What could I possibly worry about now that I know you've conducted such a thorough Internet search?

As far as history and science are concerned, I'm pretty sure I can wing it. Turns out I learned more in Internet school than I realized. Either that or my new school is completely pathetic.