Internet Connection Quotes

• All you need is a laptop or a PC and an Internet connection and you can pretty much do almost anything and create almost any type of company.

  Mark Cuban

  Connections, Needs, Laptops

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• Besides, anyone with an Internet connection feels they have the credentials to critique or belittle anything these days.

  Chris Colfer

  Connections, Internet, These Days

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• Anyone with a internet connection and an idea can develop an audience

  Kevin Spacey

  Ideas, Connections, Internet

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• As people continue to do more and buy more over the Internet, continue to meet people over the Internet, connection speeds are going to get faster, and the Internet is just going to become an even more integral part of people's lives.

  Moby

  People, Connections, Internet

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• We now live in a world where the most valuable skill you can sell is knowledge. Revolutions in technology and communication have created an entire economy of high-tech, high-wage jobs that can be located anywhere there's an internet connection. And today, a child in Chicago is not only competing for jobs with one in Boston, but thousands more in Bangalore and Beijing who are being educated longer and better than ever before.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Jobs, Children

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• I was inspired by the Hole in the Wall project, where a computer with an internet connection was put in a Delhi slum. When the slum was revisited after a month, the children of that slum had learned how to use the worldwide web.

  Sugata Mitra

  Children, Wall, Connections

  "Slumdog professor". Interview with Lucy Tobin, www.theguardian.com. March 02, 2009.

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• It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Writing, Connections, Fiction

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Jonathan Franzen, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user's phone number and home address, anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user's date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.

  Al Franken

  Home, Numbers, Phones

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• You have 1 billion people using the Internet with 200 million of those now using broadband internet connections, so the Internet has become a powerful network. It can carry calls.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Powerful, People, Connections

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• There is critical mass with high-speed Internet connections, so video is a good user experience. And that means there can be critical mass for advertisers.

  Jim C. Walton

  Mean, Criticism, Connections

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• Nowadays anyone with a crap laptop and an Internet connection can sound their barbaric yawp, whatever it may be.

  Julie Powell

  May, Laptops, Sound

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

  Shawn Achor

  Brain, Energy, Connections

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• Won't it be sad to have an Internet connection to Mars if there are no Martians to write to or e-mail us?

  William J. Clinton

  Writing, Mail, Connections

  William J. Clinton (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.1758, Government Printing Office

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• When people conceptualize a cyber-attack, they do tend to think about parts of the critical infrastructure like power plants, water supplies, and similar sort of heavy infrastructure, critical infrastructure areas. And they could be hit, as long as they're network connected, as long as they have some kind of systems that interact with them that could be manipulated from internet connection.

  Edward Snowden

  Thinking, Cyber Attacks, Long

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you have any doubt that time is relative, try stretching fifteen minutes' worth of input of over four hours cubicle-cell time with an ultra-slow internet connection and frequent visits from supervisors.

  Rob Payne

  Cells, Doubt, Trying

  "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, 2003.

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• If an adversary didn't target our power plants but they did target the core routers, the backbones that tie our internet connections together, entire parts of the United States could be cut off. That would have a tremendous impact on us as a society and it would have a policy backlash.

  Edward Snowden

  Cutting, Impact, Ties

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my 'Creative Projects' folder - it's a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in. Any time I have an Internet connection, there's a sluice of stuff moving into there, everything from beautiful rings to cockpit photos.

  Adam Savage

  Beautiful, Moving, Skeletons

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• I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.

  Donald Knuth

  Memories, Jewels, Ubuntu

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• Skype is for any individual who has a broadband Internet connection.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Connections, Skype, Internet

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• In this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.

  Bob Taft

  Jobs, Connections, Cost

  "The Jobs Agenda". Bob Taft's State of the State Address, 2004.

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• But anyone can write, right?'" Conner asked. "I mean, that's why authors get judged so harshly, isn't it? Because technically everyone could do it if they wanted to." "Just because anyone can do something doesn't mean everyone should," Mrs. Peters said. "Besides, anyone with an Internet connection feels they have the credentials to critique or belittle anything these days.

  Chris Colfer

  Writing, Mean, Connections

  Chris Colfer (2013). “The Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information previously available only to those with access to the world's greatest libraries - indeed, in most respects what is available through the Internet dwarfs those libraries, and it is incomparably easier to find what you need.

  Peter Singer

  Library, Connections, Needs

  "The unknown promise of internet freedom" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2010.

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• At the risk of sounding pedestrian, I'll be completely honest: the first thing I do in the morning is check Google News, partially because it seems sort of random and unbiased and partially because I tend to stay in hotels that don't necessarily have the fastest Internet connections.

  Moby

  Morning, Risk, Google

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