Browsers Quotes

• To a writer, an open browser tab is like a glass of whiskey. 1 or 2 can help the work. Too many ensures that nothing gets done.

  Andy Ihnatko

  Glasses, Done, Helping

  Twitter post from Feb 16, 2014

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• Any machine that can run a browser is not thin. The browser has to be the thickest application man has ever invented, and it's getting thicker faster than anything ever development by man.

  Bill Gates

  Running, Men, Machines

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• I just became one with my browser software.

  Bill Griffith

  Computer, Software

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• Day by day, the number of devices, platforms,
  and browsers that need to work with your site grows.
  Responsive web design represents a fundamental shift
  in how we'll build websites for the decade to come.

  Jeffrey Veen

  Numbers, Design, Needs

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• Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Reading, Labels, Littles

  "MIT Technology Review" Magazine, July 1996.

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• What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes.

  Ted Nelson

  Numbers, World, Corny

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• My question is what non-Microsoft browsers were you concerned about in January of 1996.

  David Boies

  Microsoft, January, Concerned

  "Gates Gives More Lip On Tape". www.wired.com. November 16, 1998.

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• If I were to wish for two things, they would be as much bandwidth as possible and ridiculously fast browser engines.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Two, Wish, Would Be

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• The search button on the browser no longer provides an objective search, but a commercial one.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Buttons, Objectives

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• Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize its the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?

  Randall Munroe

  Men, Games, Networking

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• The diversity of web browsers tomorrow will match the diversity of ink browsers (aka paper) today

  Bill Buxton

  Aka, Diversity, Ink

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• Right now Bitcoin feels like the Internet before the browser.

  Wences Casares

  Bitcoin, Internet, Feels

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• People notice it and they help you participate and see your work included in this project and when we ship our browser, you and millions of other people get to see the fruits of your efforts.

  Mitchell Baker

  People, Effort, Ships

  "Next generation browser: Pure open source software development comes of age". Interview with Dana Greenlee, www.tacomadailyindex.com. September 10, 2004.

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• It's not Big Brother that we now have to be afraid of, but Big Browser.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Brother, Internet, Free Speech

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• I think we're proving ourselves as we go along. The past several months our strategy has been evolutionary - making maximum advantage of our client browser, as well as our enterprise software for people who want to build Web sites.

  James L. Barksdale

  Past, Thinking, People

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• Cookbooks, it should be stressed, do not belong in the kitchen at all. We keep them there for the sake of appearances; occasionally, we smear their pages together with vibrant green glazes or crimson compotes, in order to delude ourselves, and any passing browsers, that we are practicing cooks; but in all honesty, a cookbook is something you read in the living room, or in the bathroom, or in bed.

  Anthony Lane

  Honesty, Order, Kitchen

  Anthony Lane (2009). “Nobody's Perfect: Writings from The New Yorker”, p.651, Vintage

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• ...your Web browser is Ronald Reagan.

  Neal Stephenson

  Design, Software, Software Design

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• I'd sit at my kitchen table and start scanning help-wanted ads on my laptop, but then a browser tab would blink and I'd get distracted and follow a link to a long magazine article about genetically modified wine grapes. Too long, actually, so I'd add it to my reading list. Then I'd follow another link to a book review. I'd add the review to my reading list, too, then download the first chapter of the book—third in a series about vampire police. Then, help-wanted ads forgotten, I'd retreat to the living room, put my laptop on my belly, and read all day. I had a lot of free time.

  Robin Sloan

  Reading, Book, Wine

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.7, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• In direct navigation, users type exactly what they are looking for in the browser's web address field. This could be the exact domain name or web address. Millions of people do this, emphasizing the need for on- and off-line marketing and branding.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Names, People, Marketing

  Marc Ostrofsky (2013). “Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Html, Flavor, Pages

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• I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly

  Steve Wozniak

  Microsoft, Reason Why, Building

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• If you can use a Web browser, you can use Skype.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Use, Skype, Ifs

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• The average consumer does not know the difference between browser, Internet and search box.

  Mitchell Baker

  Average, Differences, Doe

  "Questions For: Mitchell Baker, Mozilla Chairman". Interview with Andrew LaVallee, blogs.wsj.com. March 4, 2009.

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• Remember, the web isn't about control. If a visitor to your site is familiar with using a browser's native form doodad, you won't be doing them any favors if you override the browser functionality with your own widget, even if you think your widget looks better.

  Jeremy Keith

  Thinking, Design, Looks

  Jeremy Keith (2010). “HTML5 for Web Designers”

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• The Internet "browser"... is the piece of software that puts a message on your computer screen informing you that the Internet is currently busy and you should try again later.

  Dave Barry

  Trying, Pieces, Messages

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