Quotes About Internet

The moment we put up the PayPal button, some guy donated $300. That's when we realized that if you give somebody a chance to support something on the Internet, they'll do it.

More people are using PayPal more frequently.

At our peak, no one knew how to value Digg.

Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.

I think what Ripple is doing is not just, 'Hey, how do we enable banks' - it's a broader effort in how can you enable an Internet of Things and connected devices that are economic actors to pass a couple pennies.

People say we live in an age of information overload. Right? I don't know about that, but I just know that I get too many marketing emails.

Kids are plugged into some sort of electronic medium 44 hours per week.

In cyberspace, 95 per cent of what you read is hearsay.

The core problem is that the world is full of people who would like to take 99 per cent of the information that's on the Internet, and eliminate 1 per cent. Everyone has their own thing they don't like.

We've evolved over millions of years to sense the world around us. We use our five natural senses to perceive information. But the huge amount of information mankind has accumulated and stored online cannot be perceived by these senses.

People read things on Google, and they have these perceptions, these misconceived perceptions of who you are. At times that hurts, because they really don't know who I am.

I've always been a geek, so I've always used the Internet, perhaps at first for autopromotion, as many authors do.

That's one of the perks of my job, is getting to see what the Internet does.

What's weird is that anybody can write anything, and once it goes online, it's permanent. My very first biography on IMDb, which was written by a manager I had at the time, was not true.

People's access to social media should not permanently be restricted.

I think that we need to take care of the Internet itself right now, in order to permit it to be an important part of everyday life in the future as well.

The greatest miracle of the Internet is that it exists - the second greatest is that it persists.

I'm very persistent; I know the Internet very well, because I grew up on the Internet. I had Internet when there was just dial-up, and the Internet was my social outlet.

Our mission is to connect every person in the world. You don't do that by having a service people pay for.

It is possible to share a dial-up Internet connection by using software tools, but it's also possible to push a stalled car up a muddy hill.

You mentioned Ross Perot. Mr. Perot jumped into the race at the last minute, had one issue that he ran on, the budget deficit, was in and out of the race a couple of times, and still got 20 million votes, didn't have the Internet.

Eventually I foresee voting on the Internet, which will lead to much more direct democracy.

Internet voting is surely coming. Though online ballots cannot be made secure, though the problems of voter authentication and privacy will remain unsolvable, I suspect we'll go ahead and do it anyway.

There was a rumour that I was buying Gibson. It circulated around the Internet... And I just go, 'How well off do you think I am?' I play blues-rock for a living. It's like a vow of poverty.