Internet Quotes

• The internet has grown so tremendously fast in our society. It is the fastest communications technology in the history of the world. (It) grew from almost a dead stop in 1995 to having 80 million users in the United States alone in five years. Nothing has grown that fast.

  

  William E. Kennard
  • World
  • History
  • Technology

• Parents have the ability to screen their children's Internet access at home.

  

  Mike Fitzpatrick
  • Children
  • Home
  • Parent

• It's too easy to trivialize people. The Internet does it all the time.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • People
  • Easy
  • Doe

• I think that we live in a remarkably networked world. The problem with that, of course, is that tensions can travel in nanoseconds across the Internet, and so the tensions between Shiites and Sunnis in Baghdad, or between Protestants and Catholics in Belfast - those show up in different parts of the world.

  

  Eboo Patel
  • Problem
  • Travel
  • Tensions

• I love making videos on my couch. You can put those on the Internet fast. I can express myself.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Internet
  • Video
  • Couches

• The rock sitting on the shelf has potential because it can fall - it's the same way with the Internet. It has this potential. It's not really doing it yet, but it's about to.

  

  Michael Nesmith The Monkees
  • Way
  • Rock
  • Potential

• There's a lot of time when skaters think they know everything because they've seen videos of you, and seen you on TV or the internet, and there's ways of throwing jabs and being inconsiderate and not having your manners.

  

  Mike Vallely Black Flag
  • Thinking
  • Manners
  • Skater

• We started out on the Internet, so I've been reading what people had to say about stuff since we were getting mean comments on iFilm, before we even had our site going. People are really, really rough on the web - that's their right, that's the whole point of it - but sometimes it can be a little bit brutal.

  

  Andy Samberg
  • People
  • Reading
  • Mean

• I'm almost mentally incapable of drawing a distinction between art I make for the masses, or my clients, and that I make for myself. It all flows from what gets me off, ultimately. It's my viewpoint, and I don't particularly care if it gets seen by gallery patrons, magazine readers, internet audiences, or my friends, as long as it gets seen.

  

  Clayton James Cubitt
  • Long
  • Art
  • Care

• It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.

  

  Mike Royko
  • Information
  • Policy
  • Asylums

• For new media reactionaries...the problem is technology, the endless distractions of the Internet, the breakdown of authority in an age of blogs and Twitter, the collapse of narrative in a hyper-linked, multi-networked world.

  

  David L. Ulin
  • Technology
  • Problem
  • Distraction

• 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 Slayer
  • Internet
  • Songs
  • Riffs

• There should be a background check every time a firearm is transferred. You shouldn't be able to go to a gun show and buy guns without a background check. There are Internet gun sales, classified ads in the newspapers - and you can buy guns without background checks.

  

  Michael D. Barnes
  • Newspapers
  • Guns
  • Background

• Are Singaporeans so easily offended? Please. Have more of a backbone and thick-skin. Are you going to go on a frenzied witch hunt just because some foreigner called you a loser on the Internet?

  

  Calvin Cheng
  • Skins
  • Witch
  • Loser

• The Web is trivially simple - massively successful and its like Karaoke - anybody can do it.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Simple
  • Politics
  • Successful

• What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing - or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax - that you can do on the public switched telephone network.

  

  Vint Cerf
  • Special
  • Exception
  • Fax

• The Internet revolution is going to be like all the other revolutions we have seen in history. It's going to be over before a lot of us even know it started.

  

  Adolfo Suarez
  • Revolution
  • To Be
  • Over

• I think future generations will see the invention of the Internet as having been as important as the invention of the printing press. It's the democratizing tool of all tools. As long as no one can control the flow of information, then freedom always has a chance.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Long
  • Important
  • Future

• As children, many of us were taught never to talk to strangers. As parents and grandparents, our message must change with technology to include strangers on the Internet.

  

  Judy Biggert
  • Children
  • Internet
  • Strangers

• I guess I'm not always looking for the same things in movies that most people are, which I wouldn't have necessarily even really known if not for spending too much time reading about myself on the Internet.

  

  Andrew Bujalski
  • Reading
  • Movies
  • Internet

• Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Law
  • Congress
  • Minimum

• You spend money on Internet connection for your employees. Why not spend money on the energy that fuels their brains?

  

  Shawn Achor
  • Energy
  • Brain
  • Connections

• The Internet was full of sites producing content for free, in the hope that somehow they'd generate revenue from sources that never materialized, whether it was advertising, subscriptions, or a wing and a prayer.

  

  Craig Mundie
  • Hope
  • Free
  • Prayer

• Because I'm 44, I feel kind of lucky that I lived through this period where I started my career where there was no Internet at all, and now when I finish it, there will be nothing but the Internet.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Career
  • Period
  • Finish

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