Internet Quotes - Page 15

• No matter how much it's growing, the Internet still is a pretty specific demographic. It doesn't necessarily represent the general populace.

  Andy Samberg

  Growing, Matter, Demographics

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. August 01, 2007.

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• Lisa Hendey’s CatholicMom.com website has long been a treasured internet gathering spot. The Handbook for Catholic Moms is a welcome extension of Lisa’s wisdom and energy, enriched by the experiences of the community of women who have found community, support, and strength through CatholicMom.com.

  Amy Welborn

  Mom, Long, Support

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• I was raised on the internet.

  Lena Dunham

  Raised

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• We are still in the very beggining of the Internet. Let's use it wisely.

  Jimmy Wales

  Use, Stills

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• I invented the web just because I needed it really because it was so frustrating that it didn't exit.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Exit, Frustrating, Needed

  "Rushes Sequences - Tim Berners-Lee interview - Ghana (Video)". Interview with Aleks Krotoski, www.bbc.co.uk. October 26, 2009.

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• The story of the growth of the World Wide Web can be measured by the number of Web pages that are published and the number of links between pages. The Web's ability to allow people to forge links is why we refer to it as an abstract information space, rather than simply a network.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Numbers, Space, People

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• The Web took off in all its glory because it was a royalty-free infrastructure . . . When I invented the Web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going to end in the U.S.A. If we had a situation in which the U.S. had serious flaws in its Net Neutrality, and Europe did have Net Neutrality, and I were trying to start a company, then I would be very tempted to move.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Moving, Europe, People

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• Universality has been the key enabler of innovation on the Web and will continue to be so in the future.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Keys, Innovation, Universality

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• Web applications will become more and more ubiquitous throughout our human environment, with walls, automobile dashboards, refrigerator doors all serving as displays giving us a window onto the Web.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Wall, Doors, Giving

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• There are converging web-related issues cropping up, like privacy and security, that we currently have no way of thinking about. Nobody has thought to look at how people and the web combine as a whole - until now.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Thinking, Issues, People

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• Even before I helped to co-found Microsoft, I saw a connected future . . . I called that future The Wired World.

  Paul Allen

  Microsoft, World, Saws

  Paul Allen (2011). “Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft”, p.205, Penguin

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• We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.

  John Perry Barlow

  Creating, Silence, World

  "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace". www.eff.org. February 8, 1996.

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• The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.

  John Perry Barlow

  Battle, Troops, Wikileaks

  John Perry Barlow @JPBarlow, twitter.com. December 3, 2010.

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• The Web is a vast collection of completely uncontrolled heterogeneous documents.

  Larry Page

  Collections, Documents

  "How Google determined our right to be forgotten" by Julia Powles and Enrique Chaparro, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2015.

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• The new Web is a very different thing. It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it's really a revolution.

  Lev Grossman

  People, Together, Different

  "You — Yes, You — Are TIME's Person of the Year" by Lev Grossman, content.time.com. December 25, 2006.

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• The history of the Web so far says that we are highly motivated to come up with ways to make sense of a world richer and more interesting than the constrained resources of the traditional media let on.

  Andrew Keen

  Media, Interesting, World

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• The Internet is fast becoming a cesspool where false information thrives.

  Eric Schmidt

  Information, Becoming, Thrive

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• Brands are the solution, not the problem. Brands are how you sort out the cesspool.

  Eric Schmidt

  Problem, Brands, Solutions

  "Google's Schmidt Says Internet 'Cesspool' Needs Brands" by Nat Ives, adage.com. October 08, 2008.

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• The Net is the new underlying infrastructure for civilization itself.

  David "Doc" Searls

  Civilization, Infrastructure

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• The name was supposed to be 'Googol,' which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It was before the Google spellchecker existed.

  Sergey Brin

  Names, Google, Mathematical

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• The prime reason the Google homepage is so bare is due to the fact that the founders didn't know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. In fact, it was noted that the SUBMIT button was a long time coming and hitting the RETURN key was the only way to burst Google into life.

  Marissa Mayer

  Keys, Html, Long

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• If you don't have an e-mail address, you're in the Netherworld. If you don't have your own World Wide Web page, you're a nobody.

  Clifford Stoll

  World, Addresses, Pages

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• Hypertext, as Nelson [Ted Nelson] originally wrote, is interlinked reading and writing. Links make hypertext.

  Mark Bernstein

  Reading, Writing, Links

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• Hypertext is an idea. The Internet is a medium. They grow up beside each other, they influence each other, and their evolving relationship will probably provide a great story for future biographers.

  Mark Bernstein

  Growing Up, Ideas, Stories

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• The living Web unfolds in time, and as we see each daily revelation we experience its growth as a story.

  Mark Bernstein

  Growth, Stories, Revelations

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