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Quotes About Internet

There is no need for neighborhood informants and paper dossiers if the government can see citizens' every Web site visit, e-mail and text message.
~ Adam Cohen
There are those who say that we can happily ignore the lies and menaces spread on social media, that what appears on screen really doesn't matter, that anything goes on the web, and so on. But such people have their heads in the sand.
~ Damian Green
Eventually, if you had a printer that is IPP compliant, that printer will have a Web address and anyone around the world who can get on the Internet can print to that URL.
~ Robert Palmer
It was really hard explaining the Web before people just got used to it because they didn't even have words like click and jump and page.
~ Tim Berners-Lee
The Internet is a computing platform built on top of core technology. Applied technology is what gets built on top of that: It's Web services.
~ Fred Wilson
The target market is for people who have not been entrenched in Web culture.
~ John Patrick
Radical transparency has an enormous impact on our personal lives. We can no longer share thoughts, quips, photos or personal opinions anywhere on the web without being mindful that they may turn up where we least expect it (notably job interviews, divorce proceedings or public media).
~ Simon Mainwaring
In Britain, a 'block list' of harmful Web sites, used by all the major Internet Service Providers, is maintained by a private foundation with little transparency and no judicial or government oversight of the list.
~ Rebecca MacKinnon
Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.
~ Camille Paglia
In the early 2000s, people expected that anonymity on the Internet would be positive for the development of democracy in South Korea. In a Confucian culture like South Korea's, hierarchy can block the free exchange of opinions in face-to-face situations. The web offered a way around that.
~ Kim Young-ha
I'm interested in helping secure the PC - we need innovation here. It's not just hug your PC, hate the iPhone. In fact I don't even hate the iPhone; I think it's really cool. I just don't want it to be the center of the ecosystem along with the Web 2.0 apps.
~ Jonathan Zittrain
What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
~ Dale Dougherty
All this stuff was done via FTP but the web has put a really nice user interface on it.
~ Jon Postel
AIR grew out of our early thinking about rich Internet applications around 2001. We started to see web developers pushing the boundaries of what could be done inside the browser and taking advantage of Flash in ways that we hadn't expected.
~ Kevin Lynch
I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.
~ Camille Paglia
This is your silly web browser doing that. The file is correctly named.
~ Rasmus Lerdorf
I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to inappropriate material from these dangerous programs hidden in their family computers.
~ Cliff Stearns
I think anyone who uses the web is smart and will profit.
~ Jason Mraz
You know, when people want to get any information, research information, it will all exist on these Web sites.
~ Brian De Palma
The Internet has improved a lot in the last few years, but still, you wouldn't want to depend on Web sources for historical analysis. There's just something hard to beat about a book.
~ Diana Gabaldon
The fact that you can crawl the web is a commodity.
~ Carol Bartz
Even as the Internet has revived hope of a universal library and Google seems to promise an answer to every query, books have remained a dark region in the universe of information. We want books to be as accessible and searchable as the Web. On the other hand, we still want them to be books.
~ Gary Wolf
Using the HTTP protocol, computer scientists around the world began making the Internet easier to navigate by inventing point-and-click browsers. One browser in particular, called Mosaic, created in 1993 at the University of Illinois, would help popularize the Web, and therefore the Net, as no software tool had yet done.
~ Katie Hafner
If you can use a Web browser, you can use Skype.
~ Niklas Zennstrom