Internet Quotes
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The power of the Web is obvious and undeniable. We diminish it at our peril. But what if the most potent social effect to spread outward from the Internet turns out to be disinhibition, the breaking down of personal restraints and the endless elevation of oneself? It may be already.
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The Internet helps break down so many barriers. People start to see what's happening around the world, they feel more of a oneness and they get information all at the same time, so that helps.
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The internet is a great thing but the worst thing that it brought to the music business was piracy and it's made making stuff available really difficult.
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Communication always changes society, and society was always organized around communication channels. Two hundred years ago it was mostly rivers. It was sea-lanes and mountain passes. The Internet is another form of communication and commerce. And society organizes around the channels.
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The internet has really messed everyone up. It has its ups and downs, but for a music artist it's a killer.
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We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.
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We must reject the politics of meanness and contempt that increasingly dominate our airwaves and Internet.
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It's more egalitarian on the Internet - anyone can put anything up. But in terms of the money it takes to allow a band to get good, there's less of it to invest.
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All you gotta do is think of the song in your head. And it doesn't matter whether you can play it or not, you can get somebody to play it. With songs I've written, there's a song called "The Statue", which I can't play. There are songs that I've written that I've actually just hummed on - there's a song on one of the albums they have there on the Internet called "My Love Was True" and it's almost operatic. I can't play it. But I can sing it.
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This is the real tragedy of America's 'Internet freedom agenda': It's going to be the dissidents in China and Iran who will pay for the hypocrisy that drove it from the very beginning.
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The internet is ruthless. And people are very, very happy to let you know when they don't like something.
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In the Internet world, both ends essentially pay for access to the Internet system, and so the providers of access get compensated by the users at each end. My big concern is that suddenly access providers want to step in the middle and create a toll road to limit customers' ability to get access to services of their choice even though they have paid for access to the network in the first place.
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They have to embrace digital media technology and the Internet, instead of subverting it with regulation.
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An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator... these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is.
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I wouldn't even say the internet is a gift and a curse for hip-hop. All types of music are bootlegged, including movies which are bootlegged.
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I found out through the Internet that I have AIDS. I learned that I was dead. Where else would I find these things?
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The Internet is a gift to fashion.
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That wasn’t the song I wanted to rock out with and they told me ‘trust us, we know about radio. “So, I put it out on iTunes, the radio, the Internet, and boom! It’s a hit worldwide. I’m so happy with what’s going on in my career right now.
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I go out in New York, and I think, boy, you can look at someone and pretty much determine their zip code. Everyone seems to want to conform. I wonder, are they all just button-pressers, on the Internet all day long? I don't know.
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We like to say the Internet is the ultimate library. But libraries are libraries because people come together and fund them through taxes. Libraries actually exist, all over the country, so why is it such a reach to imagine and to someday build a public institution that has a digital aspect to it? Of course the problem is that libraries and other public services are being defunded and are under attack, so there's a bigger progressive struggle this plays into.
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As we all know, the internet is not a true friend of the music industry yet, but technology is slowly changing that. Soon it will work right for all involved.
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As we talk about devices, you should never forget that behind every one there is a person - a customer. It“s not the Internet of Things, but the Internet of People - of customers. We are moving to one-to-one relationships.
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The cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history.
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By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.
