Internet Quotes - Page 16

• I wouldn't be surprised if history records Tim Berners-Lee as the second Gutenberg.

  Jeff Bezos

  Gutenberg, Records, Ifs

  "August 6, 1991: The WWW debuts", www.cnn.com. March 10, 2003.

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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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• If you need to appear on an internet list to know whether you're someone's friend, you may have problems a computer can't solve.

  Merlin Mann

  Needs, May, Lists

  Merlin Mann @hotdogsladies, twitter.com. July 29, 2008.

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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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• 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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• There is a First Amendment right to speak in a encrypted way.... The right to speak P.G.P. is like the right to speak Navajo. The Government has no particular right to prevent you from speaking in a technical manner even if it is inconvenient for them to understand.

  Eben Moglen

  Government, Way, Firsts

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• The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It's as simple as that.

  Ai Weiwei

  Winning, Simple, Uncontrollable

  "China's Censorship Can Never Defeat the Internet". www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2012.

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• Free basic internet access should be like dialing 911 in the US or 100 in India.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Internet Access, Entrepreneur, India

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• The future of advertising is the Internet.

  Bill Gates

  Advertising

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• The real power of tribes has nothing to do with the Internet and everything to do with people.

  Seth Godin

  Real, People, Tribes

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.6, Penguin

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• Rome wasn't built in a day, and the internet is our new Rome

  Kanye West

  Rome, Watersheds, Built

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• The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive.

  Marc Maron

  Collective Unconscious, Consciousness, Difficult

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• These internet trolls are cowards who are poisoning our national life. No-one would permit such venom in person, so there should be no place for it on social media.

  Chris Grayling

  Media, Coward, Troll

  "Crackdown on the cyber-mobs poisoning Britain: Sentence for web trolls to be quadrupled to two years after shocking high-profile online abuse cases" By Glen Owen, www.dailymail.co.uk. October 18, 2014.

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• It's such a thing now, people making fun of other people on the Internet.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Fun, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Communication, Views, Achievement

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• Someone on the internet referred to me as 'that horrible little man who's replacing Rob Lowe', which is hurtful, because I think of myself as a delightful little man.

  Joshua Malina

  Men, Thinking, Hurtful

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• We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those soaps and now, a generation has grown up with the Internet and computers and video games.

  Jack Wagner

  Mother, Games, Watches

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

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• Overall, the work of rebuilding and transforming government for the digital age is only just beginning. Governments remain organized according to political and bureaucratic imperatives, not according to what makes the most sense to citizens.

  Andrew Leigh

  Government, Political, Age

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• The network is the computer.

  John Gage

  Computer

  "5 Major Trends That Will Impact Small And Medium Businesses in 2015" by Joyce Maroney, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 1, 2015.

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• The net is more than an organizing tool - it has become an organizing model, a blueprint for decentralized but cooperative decision-making. It facilitates the process of information sharing to such an extent that many groups can work in concert with one another without the need to achieve monolithic consensus.

  Naomi Klein

  Information Sharing, Decision, Groups

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• We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.

  John Perry Barlow

  Creating, Silence, World

  "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace". www.eff.org. February 8, 1996.

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• I was not only the first woman to become secretary of state, I was the first [U.S.] secretary of state of the 21st century. I was the first secretary of state to own a Web site, to visit Internet cafes, and to make Internet access a part of policy.

  Madeleine Albright

  Internet Access, Cafes, Politics

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• I'm addicted to the Internet. I admit it. It has transformed the way I work as a senator, communicate with my children, and keep tabs on news and cultural developments.... The Internet is a more direct communications link between legislators and their constituents....I constantly work at fusing my Senate work into my office home page to make it as useful, timely, and user-friendly as possible for Vermonters and others who may visit.....I look at my Web site, as my 24-hour virtual office, where visitors can send me an e-mail or search for the information they need anytime, day or night.

  Patrick Leahy

  Children, Communication, Home

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• Our marvelous new information technologies boost our power and opportunities for political engagement, but they can also disempower us by contributing to extreme political mobilization that sometimes overwhelms our institutions. These institutions were designed for rural societies operation at a tiny fraction of today's speed and with a citizenry vastly less capable that today's. It's unclear how they will change to adapt to the new reality, but change they must.

  Thomas Homer-Dixon

  Technology, Opportunity, Reality

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• The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.

  Alvin Toffler

  Technology, Civilization, Political

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