Internet Quotes - Page 25

• Unless the digital divide is narrowed soon, the United States may be headed to the class warfare of a century ago, the last time the economy changed so fundamentally. It won't be pleasant.

  Jonathan Alter

  Class, United States, Warfare

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• Comics are reflective of what's going on in larger culture. Wonder Woman came to be in her position when women were first entering the workplace in numbers during the war. Then Wonder Woman had another rise in the '70s when Gloria Steinem latched on to her as an icon for the [feminist] movement. I think we're seeing another wave of feminism today, a fourth wave characterized by intersectionality and the internet. And I think it falls right in line that we would see another wave of superheroines coming to the fore.

  Kelly Sue DeConnick

  War, Fall, Thinking

  "'So My Daughter Won't Have To': Why Kelly Sue DeConnick Fights to Make Women Welcome in Comics". Interview with Christopher Zumski Finke, www.yesmagazine.org. January 29, 2014.

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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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• Pay per click was just the beginning. The real evolution is pay per action.

  Bill Gross

  Real, Pay, Action

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• No matter how much it's growing, the Internet still is a pretty specific demographic. It doesn't necessarily represent the general populace.

  Andy Samberg

  Growing, Matter, Demographics

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. August 01, 2007.

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• Lisa Hendey’s CatholicMom.com website has long been a treasured internet gathering spot. The Handbook for Catholic Moms is a welcome extension of Lisa’s wisdom and energy, enriched by the experiences of the community of women who have found community, support, and strength through CatholicMom.com.

  Amy Welborn

  Mom, Long, Support

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• We are still in the very beggining of the Internet. Let's use it wisely.

  Jimmy Wales

  Use, Stills

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• The story of the growth of the World Wide Web can be measured by the number of Web pages that are published and the number of links between pages. The Web's ability to allow people to forge links is why we refer to it as an abstract information space, rather than simply a network.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Numbers, Space, People

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• Even before I helped to co-found Microsoft, I saw a connected future . . . I called that future The Wired World.

  Paul Allen

  Microsoft, World, Saws

  Paul Allen (2011). “Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft”, p.205, Penguin

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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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• The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.

  John Perry Barlow

  Battle, Troops, Wikileaks

  John Perry Barlow @JPBarlow, twitter.com. December 3, 2010.

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• The Web is a vast collection of completely uncontrolled heterogeneous documents.

  Larry Page

  Collections, Documents

  "How Google determined our right to be forgotten" by Julia Powles and Enrique Chaparro, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2015.

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• The new Web is a very different thing. It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it's really a revolution.

  Lev Grossman

  People, Together, Different

  "You — Yes, You — Are TIME's Person of the Year" by Lev Grossman, content.time.com. December 25, 2006.

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• The history of the Web so far says that we are highly motivated to come up with ways to make sense of a world richer and more interesting than the constrained resources of the traditional media let on.

  Andrew Keen

  Media, Interesting, World

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• The Internet is fast becoming a cesspool where false information thrives.

  Eric Schmidt

  Information, Becoming, Thrive

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• The prime reason the Google homepage is so bare is due to the fact that the founders didn't know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. In fact, it was noted that the SUBMIT button was a long time coming and hitting the RETURN key was the only way to burst Google into life.

  Marissa Mayer

  Keys, Html, Long

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• If you don't have an e-mail address, you're in the Netherworld. If you don't have your own World Wide Web page, you're a nobody.

  Clifford Stoll

  World, Addresses, Pages

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• Hypertext, as Nelson [Ted Nelson] originally wrote, is interlinked reading and writing. Links make hypertext.

  Mark Bernstein

  Reading, Writing, Links

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• The living Web unfolds in time, and as we see each daily revelation we experience its growth as a story.

  Mark Bernstein

  Growth, Stories, Revelations

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• Imitating paper isn't the goal; the goal is surpassing paper.

  Mark Bernstein

  Goal, Paper, Surpassing

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• This is the most important principle of reading on the Internet: You must determine for yourself whether or not something is true.

  Stephen Downes

  Reading, Important, Principles

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• SEO expertise is a core need for today's online businesses.

  Tony Hsieh

  Needs, Today, Online

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• Diversity is power on the Web. Big sites may be bigger, but smaller sites will keep scoring higher for specialized topics, both in terms of their connections with users and in terms of each visit's commercial value.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Diversity, Connections, May

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• I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

  Irvine Welsh

  Hate, Writing, Technology

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• On average, when you ask someone to perform a task on a site, they cannot do it. It's not their fault; it's the designer's fault.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Average, Tasks, Faults

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