Web Page Quotes

• In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Html, Flavor, Pages

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• Entire new continent can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on your screen. Contrary to what you may have heard, the Internet does not operate at the speed of light; it operates at the speed of the DMV.

  Dave Barry

  Ocean, Light, Doe

  Dave Barry (1996). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, Crown Pub

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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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• Jealousy is a potent emotion, of course, and Facebook, texting, email, fan Web pages... In theory, being someone like George Clooney's or Halle Berry's paramour - woo hoo - how great would that be? But wait a minute... er, no, probably kind of a nightmare.

  Christine Sneed

  Waiting, Texting, Pages

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are – but not web pages.

  Sergey Brin

  People, Pages, Equal

  Lecture at UC Berkeley, California, October 05, 2005.

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• Four years ago nobody but nuclear physicists had ever heard of the Internet. Today even my cat, Socks, has his own web page. I'm amazed at that. I meet kids all the time, been talking to my cat on the Internet.

  William J. Clinton

  Cat, Kids, Science

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1968, Best Books on

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• Once you understand that everybody's going to get connected, a lot of things follow from that. If everybody gets the Internet, they end up with a browser, so they look at web pages - but they can also leave comments, create web pages. They can even host their own server! So not only is everybody consuming, they can also produce.

  Marc Andreessen

  Looks, Pages, Host

  "The Man Who Makes the Future: Wired Icon Marc Andreessen". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. April 24, 2012.

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• In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin.

  Michael Shermer

  Numbers, Google, Use

  Michael Shermer (2016). “Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye”, p.177, Henry Holt and Company

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• This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the reason the Internet search engine Google can scan a billion Web pages and find the one page that has the exact piece of information you were looking for. It's the reason it's so hard to make money betting on NFL games, and it helps explain why, for the past fifteen years, a few hundred amateur traders in the middle of Iowa have done a better job of predicting election results than Gallup polls have.

  James Surowiecki

  Wisdom, Jobs, Past

  "The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations". Book by James Surowiecki, 2004.

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• People are only concerned about the next party, meeting up for casual sex, finding a job as a Web page designer, or getting a new apartment.

  John C. Dvorak

  Jobs, Sex, Party

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• Unfortunately, nigh the whole world is now duped into thinking that silly fill-in forms on web pages is the way to do user interfaces.

  Erik Naggum

  Silly, Thinking, World

  "Pause for keystroke". groups.google.com. OCtober 6, 2001.

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• Why have a locked wiki when you can instead just post static Web pages?

  Ward Cunningham

  Pages, Static, Posts

  Bo Leuf, Ward Cunningham (2001). “The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• Most of the network related programming in games has to do with providing a good interactive experience when playing over the internet. This matter is very different from serving web pages. The primary concern there is to handle connection latency, latency fluctuations, packet loss and bandwidth limitations, and pretty much hide all of that from the player's experience.

  Timothee Besset

  Loss, Player, Games

  "ID Software Developer Timothee Besset on Network Performance in Games". Network Performance Daily, January 29, 2007.

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• If you and I got on an airplane, you're going to L.A., Los Angeles, and I'm going to Senegal, we get there about the same time. The world is just that small. So a world that is so tightly bound by science and technology and now Internet and the web page, that world is too small for bullies. It has no room in that world for arrogance.

  Jesse Jackson

  Airplane, Technology, Bully

  "Reverend Jesse Jackson". Interview with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au. February 21, 2007.

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• Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world.

  Clifford Stoll

  Real, Giving, Doe

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• I calculated the total time that humans have waited for web pages to load. It cancels out all the productivity gains of the information age. Sometimes I think the web is a big plot to keep people like me away from normal society.

  Scott Adams

  Thinking, People, Age

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• Absolutely no bedwetting liberals or race warlords were harmed or mistreated in the creation of this web page - though the temptation was certainly very tough to resist.

  Neal Boortz

  Race, Temptation, Pages

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• If you look at how many thousands and thousands of pages, Web pages, are being added to the Internet every day, it's the fastest growing organism in human history for communications.

  William J. Clinton

  Communication, Looks, Growing

  President Clinton's Discussion with Students at T.C. Williams High School, Alexandria, Virginia, clintonwhitehouse4.archives.gov. April 22, 1999.

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• It's the same reason why someone has a Web page or why people feel comfortable going on reality TV.

  Charlene Li

  Reality, People, Pages

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• To be clear, I worry as much about the impact of the Internet as anyone else. I worry about shortening attention spans, the physical cost of sedentary "surfing" and the potential for coarsening discourse as millions of web pages compete for attention by appealing to our base instincts.

  Andrew Weil

  Impact, Worry, Surfing

  "Fortunately, 'Corn Sugar' Has Become a Sticky PR Mess" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2010.

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• I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to inappropriate material from these dangerous programs hidden in their family computers.

  Cliff Stearns

  Children, People, Pages

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• Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990s had the flavour of person-hood. MySpace preserved some of that flavour, though a process of regularized formatting had begun. Facebook went further, organizing people into multiple-choice identities while Wikipedia seeks to erase point of view entirely. If a church or government were doing these things, it would feel authoritarian, but when technologists are the culprits, we seem hip, fresh, and inventive. People accept ideas presented in technological form that would be abhorrent in any other forms

  Jaron Lanier

  Government, Views, Multiple Choice

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• The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16 screens on the web page... that's asking a lot of people.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Long, People, Asking

  "Nancy Gibbs, Time Executive Editor: iPad May Rejuvenate Long-Form Magazine Journalism" by Danny Shea, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2010.

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• Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Reading, Labels, Littles

  "MIT Technology Review" Magazine, July 1996.

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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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