Internet Users Quotes

• The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.

  Jon Stewart

  Networking, World, Classroom

  "Reinventing Television". Interview with Thomas Gotez, www.wired.com. September 1, 2005.

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• The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Technology, Squares

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

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• I agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge'.

  Kerry Packer

  Knowledge, Son, Light

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

  Mitchell Kapor

  Technology, Fire, Data Collection

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• The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Communication, Technology

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in the Next Society”, p.275, Routledge

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• The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

  Eric Schmidt

  Humanity, Criminals, Criminal Mind

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• The Internet is the Viagra of big business.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Business, Technology

  "101 Habits of Highly Successful Novelists: Insider Secrets from Top Writers". Book by Andrew McAleer, September 1, 2008.

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• The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.

  Clifford Stoll

  Technology, Telephones, Internet

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• Getting an education at MIT is like taking a drink from a fire hose.

  Jerome Wiesner

  Technology, Fire, Ict

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• Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Knowledge, Speak English, Incapable

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.

  Ken Olsen

  Funny, Business, Stupid

  "The 10 Stupidest Things Ever Said By Tech's Smartest People" by Dylan Love, www.businessinsider.com. April 17, 2013.

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• I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.

  Dan Millman

  Mother, Religious, Technology

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• Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Beauty, Business, Technology

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• During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.

  Al Gore

  Stupid, Technology, Creating

  "Who Invented the Internet? (It Wasn’t Al Gore)". "Glenn Beck Program", September 15, 2016.

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• Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

  Andy Grove

  Sunset, Technology, Significance

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• If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

  Dan Quayle

  Als, Checks, Spell Check

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• My practical approach based on experience is to create a website for real Internet users, not for search engine spiders.

  David Naylor

  Real, Marketing, Spiders

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• I think every Internet user likes personalization.

  Ma Huateng

  Thinking, Likes, Personalization

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• I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.

  Bruce Schneier

  Average, Answers, Firsts

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• The polling of Internet users shows that friends recommendations are the most reliable driver behind purchasing decisions. Right now that market is largely untapped. Facebook and other social networks can allow that to happen.

  Yuri Milner

  Decision, Social Media, Social Network

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• The internet has no government, no constitution, no laws, no rights, no police, no courts. Don't talk about fairness or innocence, and don't talk about what should be done. Instead, talk about what is being done and what will be done by the amorphous unreachable undefinable blob called the internet user base.

  Paul Vixie

  Law, Rights, Government

  NANOG mailing list, 2004.

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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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• There is thus little or no ability for an internet user to know when they are being covertly propagandized by their government, which is precisely what makes it so appealing to intelligence agencies, so powerful, and so dangerous.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Powerful, Agency, Government

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• I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users.

  Ken Jennings

  Cities, Smell, Library

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• Internet users, that blue screen of death you were looking at this morning? That's the sky. If you're still confused, look it up on Wikipedia tomorrow.

  Stephen Colbert

  Morning, Confused, Blue

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