Internet Quotes

• 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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• 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 just a world passing around notes in a classroom.

  Jon Stewart

  Networking, World, Internet Users

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

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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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• One of the Internet's strengths is its ability to help consumers find the right needle in a digital haystack of data.

  Jared Sandberg

  Data, Digital, Helping

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  Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.

  Will Ferrell

  Love, Funny, Marriage

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• There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true.

  Ian Hart

  Typewriters, Monkeys, Thanks

  2001 In the Sunday Herald, 30 Dec.

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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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• The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

  Dave Barry

  Communication, Technology, Waiting

  Dave Barry (1997). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, Ballantine Books

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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, Internet Users

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

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• No matter how well you know the rules of netiquette, you will eventually offend someone who doesn't.

  Don Rittner

  Matter, Etiquette, Wells

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

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• Ya know it's funny, what's happening to us. Our lives have become digital. Our friends, now virtual. And, anything you could ever wanna know is just a click away. Experiencing the world through second hand information isn't enough. If we want authenticity we have to initiate it. We will never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it. It's this self-discovery that inevitably takes us to the wildest places on earth.

  Travis Rice

  Funny, Life, Motivational

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• The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Business, Years, Fundamentals

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• With enough of us connecting heart with heart, center with center, innovation with innovation, prayer with prayer, through the internet and the noosphere, we can have a major impact on a more gentle transition toward the next stage of evolution.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Prayer, Heart, Impact

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.

  Penn Jillette

  Inspirational, Real, Technology

  "Thoughts On the Business of Life". "Forbes" Magazine, November 12, 2007.

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• I'd like to know what the Internet is going to look like in 2050. Thinking about it makes me wish I were eight years old.

  Vinton Cerf

  Thinking, Eight, Years

  "Vint Cerf: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 24, 2008.

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• The Internet, of course, is more than a place to find pictures of people having sex with dogs.

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt

  Dog, Sex, People

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• This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ON THE SECOND BOAT!

  Mitchell Kapor

  People, Noses, Boat

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• With the development of the Internet...we are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire. I used to think that it was just the biggest thing since Gutenberg, but now I think you have to go back farther.

  John Perry Barlow

  Thinking, Fire, Events

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• I think it's a good thing that there are bloggers out there watching very closely and holding people accountable. Everyone in the news should be able to hold up to that kind of scrutiny. I'm for as much transparency in the newsgathering process as possible.

  Anderson Cooper

  Knowledge, Thinking, People

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• Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

  John von Neumann

  Mean, Science, Numbers

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• Cutting through the acronyms and argot that littered the hearing testimony, the Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not, through the CDA, interrupt that conversation.

  Stewart Dalzell

  Cutting, Government, May

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• Sometimes I imagine a get-together where I introduce my family to my blogger friends and my blogger friends introduce my family to me.

  Robert Breault

  Together, Sometimes, Imagine

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• Cyberspace undeniably reflects some form of geography.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Cyberspace, Geography, Form

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• If some unemployed punk in New Jersey, can get a cassette to make love to Elle McPherson for $19.95, this virtual reality stuff is going to make crack look like Sanka.

  Dennis Miller

  Reality, Making Love, Cracks

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