Internet Quotes - Page 17

• Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.

  Matt Drudge

  Media, Sea, News

  Speech to the National Press Club on Media and the Internet, delivered 2 June 1998

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• The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media.

  Vince McMahon

  Media, News, Standards

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• I know my name gets used illegally all the time all over the internet. You know, it is a trademarked name, so it will be something that we always have to deal with. I never needed to change it. It was always fine with me. It is a strange name; that's for sure.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Change, Names, Strange

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• I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

  Irvine Welsh

  Hate, Writing, Technology

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• The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing.

  Gary Wright

  Music, Art, Tools

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• For a long time at Nintendo we didn't focus as much on online play because for many years doing so would have limited the size of the audience that could enjoy those features. But certainly now we see that so many people are connected to the Internet. It opens up a tremendous amount of possibilities.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Playing Games, Years, Long

  "Divining What’s Next for Video Games". Interview, www.nytimes.com. March 11, 2013.

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• I'm glad to see the casual game play coming back now on the Internet, games that aren't violent, that aren't complex that you can sit down and you can have some fun.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Fun, Playing Games, Down And

  "Pong: The Ping Heard 'Round the World". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. December 2, 2007.

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• The two parts of technology that lower the threshold for activism and technology is the Internet and the mobile phone. Anyone who has a cause can now mobilize very quickly.

  Howard Rheingold

  Technology, Phones, Two

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• Seventeen's not so young. A hundred years ago people got married when they were practically our age." "Yeah, that was before electricity and the Internet. A hundred years ago eighteen-year-old guys were out there fighting wars with bayonets and holding a man's life in their hands! They lived a lot of life by the time they were our age. What do kids our age know about love and life?

  Jenny Han

  Love, War, Kids

  Jenny Han (2014). “To All the Boys I've Loved Before”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• Freedom of connection with any application to any party is the fundamental social basis of the internet. And now, is the basis of the society built on the internet.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Freedom, Party, Connections

  "Net Neutrality: This is Serious". Tim Berners-Lee blog, June 2006.

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• In general, the Internet was not designed to accommodate deliberate failures to communicate.

  Daniel J. Bernstein

  Talking, Communicate, Deliberate

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• You're talking to somebody who two years ago couldn't figure out how to use e-mail and who now has carpal tunnel. It has totally changed in that these films would not be getting out to people the way they're getting out without the Internet.

  Robert Greenwald

  Tunnels, Talking, Years

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

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• A lot of the point mags are going out of business. They dropped the pay tremendously and it's all because of the internet. I used to go out once a month to LA and shoot for one week. I'd make a ton of money then come back to New York and do whatever I wanted.

  Richard Kern

  Week

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• Even though there's these songs and whoever the hell put it in the internet, if there's any good riffs in them, we raped the songs and put in the new ones.

  Kerry King

  Song, Uprising, Hell

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• If you say to people that they, as a matter of fact, can't protect their conversations, in particular their political conversations, I think you take a long step toward making a transition from a free society to a totalitarian society.

  Whitfield Diffie

  Thinking, Long, People

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• Americans have an extraordinary love-hate relationship with the rich culture they've created. They buy, watch and read it even as they ban, block and condemn it.

  Jon Katz

  Hate, Block, America

  Jon Katz (1997). “Virtuous Reality: How America Surrendered Discussion of Moral Values to Opportunists, Nitwits, and Blockheads Like William Bennett”, Random House Incorporated

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• The Internet...has become the voice of the people in the first genuine experiment in democracy yet conducted in America. It stands ready to serve every facet, every faction.

  Gerry Spence

  Voice, America, People

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.318, Macmillan

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• We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over the Internet.

  Vinton Cerf

  Numbers, Speed, Online

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• California has often led the country, indeed the world, in the technology, consumption, trends, lifestyles, and of course, mass entertainment. It is where the car found its earliest and fullest expression, where suburbs blossomed, where going to gym replaced going to church, where forces that lead so many to assume that direct democracy is the wave of the future - declining political parties, telecommuting, new technology, the internet generation 0 are all most well developed in this vast land.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Country, Party, Technology

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• There's so many celebrities now on the Internet and I feel that I was such a pioneer. Now everybody, your dog can have a website.

  Cindy Margolis

  Dog, Pioneers, Website

  "IGN For Men Interview: Cindy Margolis". Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. March 10, 2002.

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• I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Mentor, Goes On, Want

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• Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.

  Peter Diamandis

  Eight, Internet Access, People

  "Peter Diamandis: The Future of Business Is Rosy". bigthink.com.

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• India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world.

  Aravind Adiga

  Wall, Broken, India

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• We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures that we've made up, made of certain different flotsam from pop culture and certain different personas that are in style.

  Gillian Flynn

  Style, Different, Culture

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• You know, sometimes I don't understand what's wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earth—and yet sometimes we just don't seem to have the gumption to exploit our intellectual property. We split the atom, and now we have to get French or Korean scientists to help us build nuclear power stations. We perfected the finest cars on earth—and now Rolls-Royce is in the hands of the Germans. Whatever we invent, from the jet engine to the internet, we find that someone else carts it off and makes a killing from it elsewhere.

  Boris Johnson

  Country, Jet Engines, Hands

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