Internet Quotes - Page 36

• There is nothing that is truly free nor democratic enough. Make no mistake, the internet did not come to save the world.

  Jose Saramago

  Mistake, World, Enough

  O Globo Interview, July 2009.

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• Possibly worst of all, from the standpoint of the dedicated enemies of freedom, the Internet is a world that libertarians - having been marginalized for three decades by the establishment media - have made their own, almost without effort. It's an alternative reality (unlike 'meat-space' we live in) in which - exactly like intelligence, bravery, or virtue - the human capacity for violence is not additive, and in which it's impossible to initiate force against anybody.

  L. Neil Smith

  Reality, Media, Space

  "Keep Your Filthy Hands Off The Internet". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. June 20, 2010.

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• The only hope we have is the Internet. We must strive to keep it free.

  L. Neil Smith

  Strive

  "Keep Your Filthy Hands Off The Internet" by L. Neil Smith, www.ncc-1776.org. June 20, 2010.

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• Despite the Internet 's origin in the late 1960s as a government sponsored means of communication between the Department of Defense, private industry, and academia, it has been at its best and generated the greatest economic, social, and technological benefits since it was 'liberated' by the hordes of 'geeks' who were originally hired to run it by employers who were not themselves conversant with computers, and couldn't tell when their employees were exchanging official traffic or trading dirty jokes and recipes for marijuana brownies.

  L. Neil Smith

  Running, Communication, Dirty

  "Keep Your Filthy Hands Off The Internet". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. June 20, 2010.

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• The quintessential exercise of free speech in a culture supposedly built on that concept and dedicated to it, the Internet's development is as historically important to humanity perhaps even more so as Gutenberg 's invention of the printing press.

  L. Neil Smith

  Exercise, Humanity, Important

  "Keep Your Filthy Hands Off The Internet". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. June 20, 2010.

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• Your needs are big because the Internet is big.

  Jamie Zawinski

  Needs, Bigs

  Extract from interview with themes.org, www.jwz.org. 1998.

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• The language of the internet is English, and an overwhelming proportion of the global computer chatter also originates from America, influencing the content of global conversation.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  America, Language, Computer

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (1998). “The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives”, p.25, Basic Books

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• The Internet will not become a money machine until the banking industry figures out how to transfer money for free so you can charge USD 0.005 (half a cent) for some simple service like, say, reading a newspaper article you have searched for. With today's payment system, the cost of the transfer of the funds completely dwarf the cost of the service paid for. ... This situation, however, is what acutely prevents the Internet from taking off as a network for paid services.

  Erik Naggum

  Reading, Simple, Dwarves

  "Is it ok if I quote?". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. September 23, 2002.

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• The net has provided a level playing field for criticism and comment - anyone and everyone is entitled to their opinion - and that is one of its greatest strengths.

  Sara Sheridan

  Criticism, Level Playing Field, Levels

  "Why Writers Must Embrace Social Media, No Matter the Genre". www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2011.

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• Privacy in one's associations... may in many circumstances be indispensable to freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs.

  John Marshall Harlan II

  Justice, Groups, May

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• The Internet is really our meeting place. We have this amazing listserv. Every time I log onto it I feel a sense of pride, because if you log on and say, "Oh I was just in San Diego and I was in a park and I saw a lion," the flurry of replies on average is just like--wow! All these existential questions about what it means to be an African, and never having seen a lion at home, but having seen a lion here. Everything you say turns into this real philosophical debate--it's incredible in so many ways. And it's an invigorating place to be.

  Chris Abani

  Real, Philosophical, Mean

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• You can see it on the Internet now. New society demands that people share their knowledge. It's asking multimillionaires to share their money and creative people to share their creativity. Whoever doesn't share their wealth, be it knowledge, money, or creativity, will be dead.

  Ferran Adria

  Creativity, People, Creative

  "Ferran Adrià: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 16, 2010.

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• In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever. The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit. And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet; we're so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.

  Adam Rapp

  Simple, People, Forever

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• Like most authors, I'm a raging egomaniac. I know that about myself. And I know that, if I had internet access, I would waste countless hours looking up things about myself, writing fake posts about how great I am and arguing with people who don't like my work. It saves me a lot of time and frustration to just stay out of the loop.

  Bentley Little

  Writing, Frustration, Internet Access

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• I think the internet is a great marketing tool--but marketing is not my job. I'm a writer. My job is to write novels.

  Bentley Little

  Jobs, Writing, Thinking

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• The Internet is a communication medium that allows for the first time, the communication of many to many, in chosen time, on a global scale.

  Manuel Castells

  Communication, Firsts, Scales

  "The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society". Book by Manuel Castells, 2001.

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• Bullying behaviour can be communicated via text, mobile phones, internet, social networking sites, forums. But we can't limit it because these messages are then reinforced by television which glamorises yelling, swearing and vulgar behaviour as the way to walk the red carpet of acceptance.

  Louise Burfitt-Dons

  Bullying, Acceptance, Phones

  Speech, Tackling Bullying Conference, London, February 27, 2008.

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• Someone from the Internet Writing Workshop sent me a link to the Gender Genie, where you paste in a section of text and it uses an algorithm to detect whether the author is male or female. Or, if you're an author, you can tell whether you're really nailing your opposite-sex characters. I mean, nailing their dialog.

  Max Barry

  Sex, Writing, Character

  "Hand Me My Y-Chromosome". Personal blog, maxbarry.com. August 08, 2005.

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• The Internet is a big boon to academic research. Gone are the days spent in dusty library stacks digging for journal articles. Many articles are available free to the public in open-access journal or as preprints on the authors' website.

  Nick Bostrom

  Library, Research, Digging

  "Nick Bostrom on the Future, Transhumanism and the End of the World". Interview with Jonathan McCalmont, ieet.org. January 22, 2007.

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• I think the reality is that copyright law has for a very long time been a tiny little part of American jurisprudence, far removed from traditional First Amendment jurisprudence, and that made sense before the Internet. Now there is an unavoidable link between First Amendment interests and the scope of copyright law. The legal system is recognizing for the first time the extraordinary expanse of copyright regulation and its regulation of ordinary free-speech activities.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Reality, Thinking, Law

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• There is a regulation of behavior on the Internet and in cyberspace, but that regulation is imposed primarily through code. The differences in the regulations effected through code distinguish different parts of the Internet and cyberspace. In some places, life is fairly free; in other places, it is more controlled. And the difference between these spaces is simply a difference in the architectures of control--that is, a difference in code.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Differences, Space, Different

  Lawrence Lessig (2008). “Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace, Version 2.0”, p.39, Hachette UK

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• And what's the Internet without the rick-roll?

  Linus Torvalds

  Bug 439858 - swf mozilla plugin - no youtube, bugzilla.redhat.com. March 31, 2008.

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• Internet literacy must become universal within the Arab world.

  Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

  World, Literacy, Universal

  Speech at the First Arab Conference on Arabizing the Internet, Amman, Jordan, April 01, 2001.

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• I'm an Internet expert too. It's all right to wire the industrial zone only, but there are many problems if other regions of the North are wired.

  Kim Jong Il

  Wire, Experts, Politics

  "North Korea Dear Leader Kim Jong Il: 'I’m an Internet Expert Too'" by Jacqui Cheng, arstechnica.com. October 05, 2007.

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• They are "sexcellent". That is a pun for you, you will find lots of puns on the internet! Also: blonde jokes.

  Ryan North

  Blonde, Pun, Jokes

  "Ryan's Page Of Fun and Lesbian Robot Erotica". www.insaneabode.com.

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