Internet Quotes - Page 12

• It's a different world we're going into but it's all based on the Internet. It's all based on these connections. If you start limiting the connections, you're going backwards as a society.

  Glenn Beck

  Connections, Different, World

  "Glenn Beck Is The Next To Slam SOPA: 'They Will Shut Down Voices Like Ours!'" by Jon Bershad, www.mediaite.com. January 18, 2012.

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• Should check the Internet and make sure everything on there is correct.

  David Thorne

  Checks, Should

  David Thorne (2011). “The Internet is a Playground: Irreverent Correspondences of an Evil Online Genius”, p.367, Penguin

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• Perfection is crucial in building an aircraft, a bridge, or a high-speed train. The code and mathematics residing just below the surface of the Internet is also this way. Things are either perfectly right or they will not work. So much of the world we work and live in is based upon being correct, being perfect.

  Brené Brown

  Bridges, Perfection, Way

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.115, Penguin

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• It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. That's why writing on the Internet has become a lifesaver for me. My ability to think and write have not been affected. And on the Web, my real voice finds expression.

  Roger Ebert

  Real, Writing, Thinking

  "Remaking my voice". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• Provided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet and knows how to lead without coercion, many heads are inevitably better than one.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Communication, Development, Coercion

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.54, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• The Internet is corporations all the way down.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Corporations, Way, Programming

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• I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least ten years.

  Bill Gates

  Years, Littles, Computer

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• You can always spot a well informed man his views are the same as yours.

  Ilka Chase

  Men, Views, Free Speech

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• It is very similar to companies like Google and other internet companies. When you go and search on Google you don't pay for that. But sometimes you click on an advert and Google makes money on that.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Money, Google, Pay

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• A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.

  Bill Gates

  Fundamentals

  1999 Business@the Speed of Thought (co-written with Collins Hemingway).

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• I feel like in one year it's very easy to go from Internet poster boy to Internet piсata.

  Jeff Bezos

  Boys, Years, Posters

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• People finally have permission to be human in the context of their work. That's the real Internet story.

  Christopher Locke

  Real, People, Stories

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• I never surf (the Net). I don't know the password.

  George Harrison

  Surf, Passwords, Knows

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• John would have been the first white rapper. And also he would have cherished the Internet.

  Yoko Ono

  Rapper, White, Firsts

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• Like anything else, you can use the Internet for good or ill. You can get out of it what you want to. There's no evil about it. The way I see it, it's a liberation.

  Willie Nelson

  Evil, Want, Way

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• If journalism is the first draft of history, then the Internet simply has provided a new means for delivering that draft far and wide very quickly.

  Tom Daschle

  Mean, Firsts, Journalism

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• If you can afford...a computer, you can afford to pay $16 for my...CD.

  Eminem

  Cds, Pay, Computer

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• The internet explodes when somebody has the creativity to look at a piece of data that's put there for one reason and realise they can connect it with something else.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Creativity, Data, Looks

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• Bored, anonymous, pathetic bloggers who lie annoy me.

  Sarah Palin

  Lying, Bored, Annoying

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• Now, more than ever, the Internet must be wielded along with other media to cast bright lights on all who would destroy freedom in the world.

  Vinton Cerf

  Light, Media, World

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• I wouldn't be surprised if history records Tim Berners-Lee as the second Gutenberg.

  Jeff Bezos

  Gutenberg, Records, Ifs

  "August 6, 1991: The WWW debuts", www.cnn.com. March 10, 2003.

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• I think that the massive, overarching, interconnected systems of technology tend to make us a little insecure, somewhat pliable, and susceptible to half-beliefs.

  Don DeLillo

  Insecure, Technology, Thinking

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• It is my belief that industry and government around the world should work even more closely to protect the privacy and security of Internet users, and promote the exchange of ideas, while respecting legitimate government considerations.

  Bill Gates

  Government, Ideas, World

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• The hardest thing is trying not to correct everything on the Internet. It'd be night and day - wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. So you just have to say, All right, I'll take it, bring it on.

  George Clooney

  Night, Trying, Hardest

  "The 9:10 to Crazyland". Interview with A.J. Jacobs, www.esquire.com. March 17, 2008.

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• The goal of the Web is to serve humanity. We build it now so that those who come to it later will be able to create things that we cannot ourselves imagine.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Goal, Humanity, Able

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