Internet Quotes

• The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Technology, Squares

  1999 Business@the Speed of Thought (co-written with Collins Hemingway).

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• According to the American Psychological Association, the most effective stress-relief strategies are exercising or playing sports, praying or attending a religious service, reading, listening to music, spending time with friends or family, getting a massage, going outside of ra walk, meditating or doing yoga, and spending time with a creative hobby. The least effective strategies are gambling, shopping, smoking, drinking, eating, playing video games, surfing the Internet, and watching TV or movies for more than two hours.

  Kelly McGonigal

  Sports, Religious, Stress

  "The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It". Book by Kelly McGonigal, www.businessinsider.com. December 29, 2011.

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• The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it's allowed is silos of interest.

  Seth Godin

  Interest, Connecting

  "Can Ordinary People Become Leaders?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. January 17, 2014.

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• When I was in college, I remember thinking to myself, this internet thing is awesome because you can look up anything you want, you can read news, you can download music, you can watch movies, you can find information on Google, you can get reference material on Wikipedia, except the thing that is most important to humans, which is other people, was not there.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Thinking, College, People

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The screen is a window through which one sees a virtual world. The challenge is to make that world look real, act real, sound real, feel real.

  Ivan Sutherland

  Real, Challenges, Acting

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

  Vinton Cerf

  Innovation, Middle, Platforms

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• Haters are just confused admirers.

  Justin Bieber

  Success, Hater, Confused

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• Internet has contributed to certainly a new kind of communication among us - not all of it good; a lot of it, dangerous. When we talk about human community, we certainly now have a tool in our hands that enables us to reach out as we never have before. It broadens our sense certainly of what community is and even of our own place in it.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Communication, Community, Kind

  Source: sojo.net

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• The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

  Eric Schmidt

  Humanity, Criminals, Criminal Mind

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• As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion.

  Stewart Dalzell

  Government, Speech, Protection

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• Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

  Mitchell Kapor

  Technology, Fire, Data Collection

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• Here, all of a sudden, we have a revolution in - in communication, and it is - it is really, truly big. Internet is as big as the introduction of fire to the human race, or the introduction of electricity into our lives.

  Werner Herzog

  Communication, Revolution, Electricity

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think the Internet is the single greatest revolution to come around in a long time. It's so convenient, it's frightening. I can definitely see why some people don't leave their house anymore.

  Bruce Campbell

  Thinking, Long, People

  Verbosity Magazine Interview, verbosity.wiw.org.

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• The 24/7 internet connection means we're never really free and we always feel behind. The Internet also continually entices us to explore its options through hyperlinks and ads so we can spend a lot of time on things for which we have little to show, adding to our unrest.

  Tricia Rhodes

  Mean

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Thanks to the internet, I buy lots of music, but thanks to my easily distracted nature, I forget about half of it!

  Al Murray

  Thanks, Forget, Distracted

  Source: www.roland.co.uk

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• The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.

  Esther Dyson

  Addiction, Alcohol, Loner

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• Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wall, Humor, Oxygen

  The Guardian, June 14, 1989.

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• I don't understand the world of the Internet. I just type up on my computer.

  Andre Leon Talley

  World, Computer, Type

  Source: wwd.com

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• The internet is like a surround system, a landscape at its most benign, a closed system of surveillance and self-surveillance at its more sinister. Something we can no longer imagine an outside of.

  Tom Burr

  Self, Landscape, Surveillance

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Internet is perfect for delivering large blocks of text to people throughout the world for free. That's a plus. The downside is the ADD, the Internet-addled Attention Deficit Disorder.

  Lee Klein

  Block, People, Perfect

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Communication, Technology

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in the Next Society”, p.275, Routledge

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• Thousands of people were producing new Web sites every day. We were just trying to take all that stuff and organize it to make it useful.

  David Filo

  People, Trying, Stuff

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• The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.

  Jon Stewart

  Networking, World, Internet Users

  "Reinventing Television". Interview with Thomas Gotez, www.wired.com. September 1, 2005.

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• The 'Net is a waste of time.

  William Gibson

  Technology, Waste, Wasting Time

  "The Net Is a Waste of Time". The New York Times Magazine column, www.nytimes.com. July 14, 1996.

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  Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.

  Will Ferrell

  Love, Funny, Marriage

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