Quotes About Internet

So my brain started ticking and I bought all my books from a cookbook shop, Libraire Gourmand in Paris. I bought them over the Internet and they sent them from France. I got the 'Larousse' in a box with 20 other books. I was pretty excited. It was like Christmas for 20 years.

When I had dial-up, my mom got me a phone so I wouldn't tie up the phone. She used to really pick up the phone, push some buttons, and hang it up so the connection could mess up. Now, it's a joke with her, like, 'Look, the Internet's 24/7. I have WiFi now.'

It seems in this day and age our teens are going to the Internet to learn all the things we would ask our dads. How to tie a tie, how to shave, all those little things.

That's the beauty of the Internet is that we're no longer tied to our communities by physical connections.

I would say everything in our life in the next 25 years is going to be tied into the Internet, and it's going to be the place for communications, for education, for conducting business and everything.

The anonymity of the internet has been completely abandoned - everything's so tied to your identity and sense of self now. It's hard for me to see that changing, but that's why I wrote a love letter to something that once was.

Reddit is, it's like a tiger. It's great if it's your friend, but it can also eat you alive.

Now, whenever I need to go online, I confine myself to a tight circle: Gmail, MLB.com, NYTimes.com, Slate and maybe Facebook.

When I'm long dead and gone, people will be falsely attributing made-up quotes to me on internet pages and memes.

It's getting harder to hone your craft because of YouTube and the internet. You really need to get out to the clubs to hone your craft. A lot of people these days don't have the patience.

I was watching Iggy Pop videos on Youtube and trying to research miniature horse suicides.

also want to say one more thing about the content of this book. Influence includes a lot of bullying and nastiness, and I want to make it clear that it's something I don't condone. I truly hope that the internet becomes a kinder, more accepting place, not a more hateful one. So please, think before you post a comment. Consider that on the other end of an account, there's a living, breathing person with feelings. Be good to one another. And sometimes?

The net has provided a level playing field for criticism and comment - anyone and everyone is entitled to their opinion - and that is one of its greatest strengths.

I hope that, whatever happens within the publishing industry, because of the increased control writers have of their own careers, better sales information and the advent of the internet, that ultimately this change in our working environment will be a change for the better.

There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time.

We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step.

The Internet changes the structure of society all the time — this massiveness made of individuals.

The Internet is like closing time at a blue-collar bar in Boston. Everyone's drunk and ugly and they're going to pass out in a few minutes.

Information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time.

You will not even have enough time to go online and download all the patches to your computer before it is infected.

One time I had too many Heinekens and I googled myself and realized that that was a very, very bad combination.

People say the Internet's made of cats. The reason isn't because of cats; it's because people like to have an emotion where they say 'aww' all at the same time.

I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.

I really don't spend any time on the Internet, so I guess I live a little under a rock in that respect.