Internet Quotes - Page 15

• Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see.

  Joichi Ito

  Media, People, Machines

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• I think that audio and video over the internet in the sense of teleconferencing and telephone calls. Maybe we'll actually have picture phone through your work station.

  Jon Postel

  Thinking, Phones, Games

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• I think that the Internet - and I do love the free flow of ideas on the 'Net - is like the wild west of the information world.

  Vince McMahon

  Thinking, Wwe, Ideas

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• So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message.

  Thomas Dolby

  Technology, Long, Killers

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• The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community - by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Interesting, Community, Advertising

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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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• Perfection is crucial in building an aircraft, a bridge, or a high-speed train. The code and mathematics residing just below the surface of the Internet is also this way. Things are either perfectly right or they will not work. So much of the world we work and live in is based upon being correct, being perfect.

  Brené Brown

  Bridges, Perfection, Way

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.115, Penguin

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• The Internet is corporations all the way down.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Corporations, Way, Programming

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• Provided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet and knows how to lead without coercion, many heads are inevitably better than one.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Communication, Development, Coercion

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.54, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Thank You, Years, People

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. April 20, 2004.

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• Should check the Internet and make sure everything on there is correct.

  David Thorne

  Checks, Should

  David Thorne (2011). “The Internet is a Playground: Irreverent Correspondences of an Evil Online Genius”, p.367, Penguin

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• The speed of the Internet provides a fundamentally different perspective on how business relationships occur ... The approach relies on collaboration, not on competition ... on sharing information, and understanding what we as businesses do best.

  Michael Dell

  Perspective, Understanding, Competition

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• The revolution here is from hierarchical to lateral power. That's the power shift. So increasingly a younger generation that's grown up on the internet and now increasingly distributing renewable energies, they're measuring politics in terms of a struggle between centralized, hierarchical, top-down and closed and proprietary, versus distributed, open, collaborative, transparent. This shift, from hierarchical to lateral power, is going to change the way we live, the way we educate our children, and the way we govern the world.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Love, Children, Struggle

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• I feel like in one year it's very easy to go from Internet poster boy to Internet piсata.

  Jeff Bezos

  Boys, Years, Posters

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• It is very similar to companies like Google and other internet companies. When you go and search on Google you don't pay for that. But sometimes you click on an advert and Google makes money on that.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Money, Google, Pay

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• If journalism is the first draft of history, then the Internet simply has provided a new means for delivering that draft far and wide very quickly.

  Tom Daschle

  Mean, Firsts, Journalism

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• Like anything else, you can use the Internet for good or ill. You can get out of it what you want to. There's no evil about it. The way I see it, it's a liberation.

  Willie Nelson

  Evil, Want, Way

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• Bored, anonymous, pathetic bloggers who lie annoy me.

  Sarah Palin

  Lying, Bored, Annoying

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• If you can afford...a computer, you can afford to pay $16 for my...CD.

  Eminem

  Cds, Pay, Computer

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• John would have been the first white rapper. And also he would have cherished the Internet.

  Yoko Ono

  Rapper, White, Firsts

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• You can always spot a well informed man his views are the same as yours.

  Ilka Chase

  Men, Views, Free Speech

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• Now, more than ever, the Internet must be wielded along with other media to cast bright lights on all who would destroy freedom in the world.

  Vinton Cerf

  Light, Media, World

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• I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least ten years.

  Bill Gates

  Years, Littles, Computer

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• Some of the fantasy objects arising from cybernetic totalism (like the noosphere, which is a supposed global brain formed by the sum of all the human brains connected through the
  internet) happen to motivate infelicitous technological designs.
  For instance, designs that celebrate the noosphere tend to energize the inner troll, or bad actor, within humans.

  Jaron Lanier

  Design, Brain, Actors

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.45, Vintage

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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, These Days, Credentials

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