Internet Quotes - Page 6

• No woman or girl is going to want to spend time looking at pretty dresses on the Internet. Vogue is going to be around for a long time to come.

  Felix Dennis

  Girl, Long, Dresses

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• The Internet lets women use words, which is their natural tool. Little girls speak in more complex, grammatical sentences than little boys do, and women never lose that superiority in verbal ability.

  Helen Fisher

  Girl, Boys, Tools

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• I think 20th century media were about tricking people - and the beauty of the Internet is you can't lie anymore.

  Tucker Max

  Lying, Thinking, Media

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• The Internet has made it much more effective and cheaper to spread propaganda.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Propaganda, Made, Spread

  "Why Tyrants Like Twitter" by Ki Mae Heussner, abcnews.go.com. October 26, 2009.

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• The Internet can empower groups whose aims are in fact antithetical to democracy.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Empowering, Democracy, Groups

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• To fully absorb the lessons of the Internet, urge the Internet-centrists, we need to reshape our political and social institutions in its image.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Political, Needs, Lessons

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• As economic life relies more and more on the Internet, the potential for small bands of hackers to launch devastating attacks on the world economy is growing.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Band, World, Growing

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• Contrary to the utopian rhetoric of social media enthusiasts, the Internet often makes the jump from deliberation to participation even more difficult, thwarting collective action under the heavy pressure of never-ending internal debate.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Media, Pressure, Action

  "The Digital Dictatorship". www.wsj.com. February 20, 2010.

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• For many oppositional movements, the Internet, while providing the opportunity to distribute information more quickly and cheaper, may have actually made their struggle more difficult in the long run.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Running, Struggle, Opportunity

  "The Tunisia Twitter Revolution That Wasn’t". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. January 27, 2011.

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• However revolutionary it may be, the Internet still hasn't altered the basic law of human communication: Being nice to your interlocutors is a good way to start any negotiations, particularly, when being hostile is an open invitation for a cyber-fight.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Nice, Communication, Fighting

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• In China, Internet surveillance has already become a profitable industry. In fact, a growing number of private firms eagerly assist the local police by aggregating this data and presenting it in easy-to-browse formats, allowing humans to pursue more analytical tasks.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Numbers, Data, Police

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• My homeland of Belarus is an unlikely place for an Internet revolution. The country, controlled by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko since 1994, was once described by Condoleezza Rice as 'the last outpost of tyranny in Europe.'

  Evgeny Morozov

  Country, Europe, President

  "How dictators watch us on the web" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. December 10, 2009.

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• North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but to find ways to shape it in accord with their own narratives - or risk having their narratives shaped by others.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Government, Korea, Choices

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• The director of the FBI has been visiting Silicon Valley companies asking them to build back doors so that it can spy on what is being said online. The Department of Commerce is going after piracy. At home, the American government wants anything but Internet freedom.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Home, Government, Doors

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• The implications are clear: Facebook wants to build an Internet where watching films, listening to music, reading books and even browsing is done not just openly but socially and collaboratively.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Book, Reading, Listening

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• There is no doubt that the Internet brims with spamming, scamming and identity fraud. Having someone wipe out your hard drive or bank account has never been easier, and the tools for committing electronic mischief on your enemies are cheap and widely accessible.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Doubt, Enemy, Identity

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• There is this group of people who love innovation. Those people want to innovate, and they think the Internet is a wonderful tool for innovation, which is true. But you also have to remember that much of that innovation is constrained within the realities of the foreign policy.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Reality, Thinking, People

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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.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Real, Iran, America

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• As the Internet of things advances, the very notion of a clear dividing line between reality and virtual reality becomes blurred, sometimes in creative ways.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Reality, Creative, Lines

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• On the internet nobody can hear you being subtle.

  Linus Torvalds

  Subtle

  "Linus Torvalds' Best Quotes from LinuxCon Europe 2014". Interview with Dirk Hohndel, www.linuxfoundation.org. October 15, 2014.

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• Along with planes, running water, electricity, and motorized transportation, the internet is now a fundamental fact of modern life.

  danah boyd

  Running, Water, Modern Life

  danah boyd (2014). “It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens”, p.26, Yale University Press

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• The nature of business and government has been to build a surplus and self-perpetuate, but the Internet fosters and rewards smaller, more fluid organizations.

  Esther Dyson

  Government, Self, Organization

  "Lots of action on the Net -- but not much change" by Stewart Deck, cnn.com. May 28, 1998.

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• My theory is that in the age of the internet, it's what you write, not where you write it, that matters.

  Daniel Lyons

  Writing, Marketing, Age

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• Outsourcing isn't the answer to everything. Lots of internet marketing pundits will tell you to outsource, outsource, outsource. Having a trusted team that knows each other and enjoys working together is good, too.

  Ian Lurie

  Team, Marketing, Working Together

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• By the late '90s, those who were paying attention perceived the Internet as a 20-foot tidal wave coming, and we are all in kayaks.

  Andy Grove

  Feet, Attention, Wave

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