Internet Quotes - Page 19

• No more Internet. No more social media, no more scrolling through litanies of dreams and nervous hopes and photographs of lunches, cries for help and expressions of contentment and relationship-status updates with heart icons whole or broken, plans to meet up later, pleas, complaints, desires, pictures of babies dressed as bears or peppers for Halloween. No more reading and commenting on the lives of others, and in so doing, feeling slightly less alone in the room. No more avatars.

  Emily St. John Mandel

  Dream, Baby, Halloween

  Emily St. John Mandel (2014). “Station Eleven: A novel”, p.39, Vintage

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• The interesting products out on the Internet today are not building new technologies. They're combining technologies. Instagram, for instance: Photos plus geolocation plus filters. Foursquare: restaurant reviews plus check-ins plus geo.

  Jack Dorsey

  Technology, Interesting, Filters

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• The internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.

  Ben Casnocha

  Smart, People, Dumb

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• We noticed recently that people didn't like it when Facebook "experimented" with their news feed. Even the FTC is getting involved. But guess what, everybody: if you use the Internet, you're the subject of hundreds of experiments at any given time, on every site. That's how websites work.

  Christian Rudder

  People, News, Use

  "OkCupid may have experimented on you, too" by William Hughes, www.avclub.com. July 31, 2014.

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• As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.

  Esther Dyson

  Government, Long

  "Lots of action on the Net -- but not much change" by Stewart Deck, cnn.com. May 28, 1998.

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• This is how they justify not wanting to strive for self-improvement. It's how they explain their continued inaction. It's just an excuse. There are plenty of video clips on the Internet showing what I really look like. Some people even spread rumors about me and retouch my pictures to hurt me. But I don't take them seriously. I'm even flattered! It's what success is like. I'm happy I seem unreal to them, it means I'm doing a good job.

  Valeria Lukyanova

  Hurt, Jobs, Mean

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• There is some sort of perverse pleasure in knowing that it's basically impossible to send a piece of hate mail through the Internet without its being touched by a gay program. That's kind of funny.

  Eric Allman

  Hate, Gay, Knowing

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• That books, a commodity little changed since Caxton's day, should have turned out to be the trailblazers of retailing on the internet is one of the stranger cultural ironies of our time. If you've bought one thing on the net, the newest and most prodigiously high-tech communications system imaginable, then it is almost certain to be a book, the oldest and simplest.

  Bryan Appleyard

  Book, Communication, Should Have

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• Everyone should be concerned about Internet anarchy in which anybody can pretend to be anybody else, unless something is done to stop it. If hoaxes like this go unchecked, who can believe anything they see on the Internet? What good would the Internet be then? If the people who control Internet web sites do not do anything, is that not an open invitation for government to step in? And does anybody want politicians to control what can go on the Internet?

  Thomas Sowell

  Believe, Government, People

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• It is commonly said that the Internet is unique in its ability to spread bad information to large numbers of people, but this is ridiculous, given that the Internet cannot begin to compete with CNN or the New York Times for this honour.

  Philip E. Agre

  New York, Unique, Numbers

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• When the Internet arrived in Ireland... it was like having Amsterdam's Red Light District in your own living room.

  Tom Dunne

  Light, Red, Amsterdam

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• The Internet is like a town that leaves its streets unmarked on the principle that people who don't already know don't belong

  James Gleick

  People, Principles, Towns

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• If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.

  Dorothy Gambrell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Family

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• Sleeping like an internet person takes commitment, it all starts in the late afternoon.

  Troye Sivan

  Sleep, Commitment, Afternoon

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• One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.

  Patrick Collison

  Technology, Clouds, Important

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• Stripe makes it easy for anyone, be it an individual or a small business or a large business, to accept credit card payments on the Internet. We want to give control to the user or the business to define what the experience looks like. We work on a website or a mobile app, or whatever between that.

  Patrick Collison

  Giving, Stripes, Cards

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• All I know is that the Internet will transform the world.

  Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.

  World, Knows

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• At the moment, most customers do not wish to pay the extra money for connection to the Internet, and for some customers, connection procedures to the Internet are still not easy.

  Satoru Iwata

  Wish, Connections, Pay

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• Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on.

  Victoria Wood

  Goes On, Television, Radio

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• I think it may be even a bigger story than the internet. You know, it's like saying, 'how big a deal is the internet?' The Chinese middle-class is going to change the world.

  James Packer

  Thinking, Class, Chinese

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• Lord knows, if it's on the internet, it's got to be true!

  Shawn Michaels

  Wwe, Lord, Being True

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• Our constituency aren't the type of people to be on the Internet.

  Jesse Helms

  People, Politics, Type

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• I think Ronald Reagan is what happened....The age of Reagan brought conservatism into the mainstream....It also brought us the beginning of the new media-talk radio, the internet, cable television.

  Douglas Brinkley

  Thinking, Media, Age

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• Poor Al Gore, global warming completely debunked, via the very Internet you invented.

  Jon Stewart

  Politics, Als, Global Warming

  "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.nbcnews.com. December 9, 2009.

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• Why are liberals who want the government to regulate their health care upset that the government wants to regulate their internet?

  Andrew Napolitano

  Government, Upset, Care

  FaceBook post by Judge Andrew Napolitano from Nov 17, 2011

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