Internet Quotes - Page 2

• One of the Internet's strengths is its ability to help consumers find the right needle in a digital haystack of data.

  Jared Sandberg

  Data, Digital, Helping

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• The remarkable social impact and economic success of the Internet is in many ways directly attributable to the architectural characteristics that were part of its design. The Internet was designed with no gatekeepers over new content or services.

  Vinton Cerf

  Success, Impact, Design

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• When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web... Now even my cat has its own page.

  William J. Clinton

  Cat, Patriotic, High Heels

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• Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.

  Gary Kovacs

  Privacy, Accepting, Security

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• I agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge'.

  Kerry Packer

  Knowledge, Son, Light

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.

  Vinton Cerf

  Long, Growth, Doe

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• The Internet "browser"... is the piece of software that puts a message on your computer screen informing you that the Internet is currently busy and you should try again later.

  Dave Barry

  Trying, Pieces, Messages

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• Blogs seem to have two magnetic poles, one attracting friends, the other repulsing relatives.

  Robert Breault

  Two, Blogs, Magnetic

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• Will the highways on the Internet become more few?

  George W. Bush

  Funny, Stupid, Humor

  "The 'misunderestimated' president?". news.bbc.co.uk. January 07, 2009.

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• The Internet is a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean, "people without lives." We don't care. We have each other.

  Dave Barry

  Mean, Intelligent, People

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• There are 5,000 great people for every jerk on Usenet. But that still is a lot of jerks. Proceed with caution and eyes wide open.

  Don Rittner

  Eye, People, Jerk

  Don Rittner (1999). “The IMac Book”, Coriolis Group

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• It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.

  George W. Bush

  Life, Baby, Children

  George W. Bush's remarks at Arlington Heights, Illinois (October 24, 2000), as quoted in "Bush, in his own words" by Jacob Weisberg, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2000.

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• Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Beauty, Business, Technology

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• Chinese national Internet policy is very simple: Block and clone.

  Michael Anti

  Block, Simple, Chinese

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• Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is to do and how credulous people are.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Lying, People, Jerk

  "Letters to Ambrose Merton, Issues 13-16". Book by William John Thoms (p. 31), 1998.

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• We understand the need to balance our short- and longer-term needs because our revenue is the engine that funds all our innovation. But over time, our emerging high-usage products will likely generate significant new revenue streams for Google as well as for our partners, just as search does today.

  Larry Page

  Google, Innovation, Balance

  "Larry Page Just Put Out A Big Manifesto - Read The Full Thing Here" by Matt Lynley, www.businessinsider.com. April 5, 2012.

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• The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

  Al Gore

  Funny, Tired, Night

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• The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.

  Clifford Stoll

  Technology, Internet Users, Telephones

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• One Chinese tweet is equal to 3.5 English tweets. ... Because of this, the Chinese really regard this microblogging as a media, not only a headline to media.

  Michael Anti

  Motivation, Inspiration, Media

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• More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege.

  Michael Anti

  Rights, Freedom Of Speech, Chinese

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• Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects.

  Stewart Dalzell

  Liberty, Cacophony, Speech

  "Judges Turn Back Law To Regulate Internet Decency" by Peter H. Lewis, www.nytimes.com. June 13, 1996.

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• The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  People, Information, Enabling

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• The boom was healthy too, even with its excesses. Because what this incredible valuation craze did was draw untold sums of billions of dollars into building the Internet infrastructure. The hundreds of billions of dollars that got invested in telecommunications, for example.

  Andy Grove

  Money, Healthy, Example

  "Andy Grove's Rational Exuberance". Interview with John Heilemann, www.wired.com. June 1, 2001.

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• I always had faith in the internet. I believed in it and thought it was obviously going to change the way the world worked. I really did not understand why others were selling their stock. As stock prices plunged, I just bought them, one after another, since I had the money. I guess I was rather lucky.

  Takafumi Horie

  Money, Lucky, World

  "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. November 23, 2005.

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• [The Internet] is a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

  Theodore Stevens

  Lines, Messages, Programming

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