Internet Quotes - Page 8

• Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.

  Horace

  Judging, Judgement, Guilty

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• The best answer to bad speech is good speech

  Alan Dershowitz

  Answers, Speech, Free Speech

  Alan M. Dershowitz (1994). “Contrary to Popular Opinion”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S. Tax Code look like Dr. Seuss.

  Dave Barry

  Reading, People, Trying

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, p.50, Ballantine Books

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• Digital wisdom is made of recycled electrons that are meaningful until you pull the plug.

  Don Rittner

  Meaningful, Digital, Made

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• Civility is only a passenger - not a driver - on the information superhighway.

  Don Rittner

  Information, Civility, Passengers

  Don Rittner (1999). “The IMac Book”, Coriolis Group

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• Rittner's Computer Law: Never argue with people who write with digital ink and pay by the kilowatt-hour.

  Don Rittner

  Writing, Law, People

  Don Rittner (1999). “The IMac Book”, Coriolis Group

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• The Net is the ultimate empowerment tool. You have the right to express your opinion to a global audience, but everyone has the right not to pay any attention to it.

  Don Rittner

  Empowerment, Tools, Attention

  Don Rittner (1999). “The IMac Book”, Coriolis Group

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• It's the internet like the flu - it just spreads like crazy.

  Jack Welch

  Crazy, Flu, Spread

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• If you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was a surprise to me - that people were prepared to painstakingly write HTML.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Writing, Html, People

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• We are seeing pioneers moving out to the Internet, banks that are taking transactions, retail shopping on the Internet, and although it's going to take most of a decade before most adults are turning to the Internet for a high percentage of their act

  Bill Gates

  Moving, Shopping, Adults

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• Kids are taking PCs and the Internet to new heights. They're the ones that are designing the cutting-edge web sites.

  Bill Gates

  Kids, Cutting, Design

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• Technology really has turned out to be a wonderful thing. . . . So Americans really are tuning in in positive ways on the Internet.

  William J. Clinton

  Technology, Tuning, Way

  Clinton, William J. (1999). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1998”, p.212, Best Books on

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• Our big goal should be to make connection to the Internet as common as connection to telephones is today.

  William J. Clinton

  Goal, Connections, Today

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.172, Best Books on

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• We should set a national goal of making computers and Internet access available for every American . . . we must help all Americans gain the skills they need to make the most of the connection.

  William J. Clinton

  Internet Access, Skills, Goal

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• 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, 1st Duke of Suarez

  Internet Revolution, Revolution, Knows

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• We fundamentally believe the first chapter of the Internet is over.

  Barry Schuler

  Believe, Firsts, Chapters

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• Nobody, 20 years ago, forecast the Internet.

  Bryan Appleyard

  Years, Years Ago, Forecasts

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• I also saw a huge expansion of the Internet, with many major corporations, afraid of being left behind, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to develop World Wide Web sites in a frantic scramble to reach the vast new consumer market of Web use

  Dave Barry

  Expansion, Dollars, Use

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• I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting.

  Boris Spassky

  Interesting, Chess, Site

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• The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.

  John Stuart Mill

  Courage, Sacrifice, Intellectual

  John Stuart Mill (1859). “On Liberty”, p.60

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• As a result, we will continue to see more innovation on the Internet and on mobile phones than on consoles.

  Trip Hawkins

  Phones, Innovation, Results

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• Unlike the phone system, which is engineered around an application, the Internet layered model allows you to, in essence, separate applications from infrastructure.

  Michael K. Powell

  Phones, Essence, Separation

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• We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.

  Jeff Tweedy

  People, Scary, Listening

  "'Music Is Not A Loaf Of Bread'". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. November 15, 2004.

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• Use the word 'cybernetics', Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments.

  Claude Shannon

  Mean, Cybernetics, Use

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• People who say that only young people voted on the Internet, those who didn't see Pele play, forget that children are not orphans. There's always a father who buys the computer and perhaps influences their vote. I won the people's vote.

  Diego Maradona

  Children, Father, Play

  "Snorting, Smuggling, and Spinning". www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2000.

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