Internet Quotes - Page 16

• Imitating paper isn't the goal; the goal is surpassing paper.

  Mark Bernstein

  Goal, Paper, Surpassing

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• This is the most important principle of reading on the Internet: You must determine for yourself whether or not something is true.

  Stephen Downes

  Reading, Important, Principles

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• SEO expertise is a core need for today's online businesses.

  Tony Hsieh

  Needs, Today, Online

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• Just as our kids don't understand the difference between broadcast and cable, the line between TV and Internet TV is about to disappear.

  Jeff Jarvis

  Kids, Differences, Lines

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• Today, only about 1% of the World Wide Web is written in Arabic.

  Marissa Mayer

  World, Today, Written

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• Note that the #1 Top Reviewer at Amazon (4550 book reviews) is Harriet Klausner, formerly an acquisitions librarian in Pennsylvania. This just goes to show that librarians were destined to rule the Web.

  Peter Morville

  Book, Pennsylvania, Amazon

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• Diversity is power on the Web. Big sites may be bigger, but smaller sites will keep scoring higher for specialized topics, both in terms of their connections with users and in terms of each visit's commercial value.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Diversity, Connections, May

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• On average, when you ask someone to perform a task on a site, they cannot do it. It's not their fault; it's the designer's fault.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Average, Tasks, Faults

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• The poster child of Web 2.0 is Flickr.com. Personalization is a key piece of Web 2.0.

  Jared Spool

  Children, Keys, Pieces

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• The lesson of the Internet is that no audience is too small.

  Randall L. Stephenson

  Lessons, Audience

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• When I opened Wikipedia, it had three articles, yet it was called an encyclopedia.

  Jimmy Wales

  Wikipedia, Three, Articles

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• Wikipedia is the #5 site on the Web and serves 450 million different people every month - with billions of page views.

  Jimmy Wales

  Views, People, Wikipedia

  "Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin Gives $500,000 to Wikipedia" by Georg Szalai, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 21, 2011.

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• What's the number-one thing people do on the Web? They read. Words and numbers are the raw material from which the vast majority of webpages are built. If reading is the primary activity on the Web, then readability is a primary function of Web design.

  Gerry McGovern

  Reading, Numbers, People

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• Today, over one million people now make their living on eBay, which is astounding.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Ebay, People, Today

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• It is no exaggeration to conclude that the Internet has achieved, and continues to achieve, the most participatory marketplace of mass speech that this country - and indeed the world - has yet seen.

  George Will

  Country, World, Speech

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• It's becoming clear that the world is listening, so now we're trying to get new groups of people talking.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Talking, People, Listening

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• The point is that the reader's journey through our site is a narrative experience. Our job is to make the narrative satisfying.

  Mark Bernstein

  Jobs, Journey, Narrative

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• The Internet will make every enterprise a publisher.

  Steve Case

  Enterprise, Publishers

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• It's not about being digital. It's about students who are born digital.

  John Palfrey

  Digital, Students, Born

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• Research now means a Google search.

  John Palfrey

  Mean, Google, Research

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• I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened.

  Thomas Friedman

  Running, Country, Kids

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• The Heartbleed problem can be blamed on complexity; all Internet standards become festooned with complicating option sets that no one person can know in their entirety. The Heartbleed problem can be blamed on insufficient investment; safety review for open source code is rarely funded, nor sustainable when it is. The Heartbleed problem can be blamed on poor planning; wide deployment within critical functions but without any repair regime.

  Dan Geer

  Heart, Safety, Deployment

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• You know, we've been right on everything, haven't we? We told people about drones five years ago, didn't we? We told people about the NSA five years ago, didn't we? We told them about indefinite detention. We told them you can't come after the internet, that's unconstitutional. You can't do warrantless searches, that's unconstitutional.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Nsa, Years

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• The net poses a fundamental threat not only to the authority of the government, but to all authority, because it permits people to organize, think, and influence one another without any institutional supervision whatsoever.

  John Seabrook

  Thinking, Government, People

  "My First Flame". Brave New World Dept., www.newyorker.com. June 6, 1994.

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• For the mind and the imagination, bookstores aren't enough, college courses aren't enough, the Internet isn't enough. Those resources are all governed by the tastes and needs of the moment. Only libraries take the long view, quietly shelving the unused with the used, knowing that one of these days the two categories will be reversed by a student's discovery of those hitherto undisturbed volumes whose contents will unsettle the learned world.

  Helen Vendler

  College, Discovery, Views

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