Internet Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• Architecture is politics.

  Mitchell Kapor

  Architecture

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• The boom was healthy too, even with its excesses. Because what this incredible valuation craze did was draw untold sums of billions of dollars into building the Internet infrastructure. The hundreds of billions of dollars that got invested in telecommunications, for example.

  Andy Grove

  Money, Healthy, Example

  "Andy Grove's Rational Exuberance". Interview with John Heilemann, www.wired.com. June 1, 2001.

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• I always had faith in the internet. I believed in it and thought it was obviously going to change the way the world worked. I really did not understand why others were selling their stock. As stock prices plunged, I just bought them, one after another, since I had the money. I guess I was rather lucky.

  Takafumi Horie

  Money, Lucky, World

  "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. November 23, 2005.

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• America Online customers are upset because the company has decided to allow advertising in its chat rooms. I can see why: you got computer sex, you can download pornography, people are making dates with 10 year-olds. Hey, what's this? A Pepsi ad? They're ruining the integrity of the Internet!

  Jay Leno

  Sex, Integrity, America

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• I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'

  Mike Godwin

  Appreciation, Children, Years

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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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• The internet is an amazing medium for languages.

  David Crystal

  Language, Mediums

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• Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection.

  Don Tapscott

  Government, Collaboration, Cost

  " Life Lessons of Wisdom & Motivation - Volume III: Insightful, Enlightened and Inspirational quotations and proverbs" by M.I. Seka, Providential Press, (p. 67), February 28, 2014.

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• Entire new continent can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on your screen. Contrary to what you may have heard, the Internet does not operate at the speed of light; it operates at the speed of the DMV.

  Dave Barry

  Ocean, Light, Doe

  Dave Barry (1996). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, Crown Pub

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• That is, we're into a whole new world with the Internet, and whenever we sort of cross another plateau in our development, there are those who seek to take advantage of it. So this is a replay of things that have happened throughout our history.

  William J. Clinton

  Development, World, Crosses

  "President Clinton to Propose National Cyber-Security Center". "Early Edition", cnn.com. February 15, 2000.

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• Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle, a thing that flies.

  Jon Lester

  Space, Calling, Free Speech

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• The artistic desire reveals itself in dark form - in karaoke bars [or] trolling on the Internet.

  Young-Ha Kim

  Creativity, Dark, Desire

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• What, exactly, is the internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a 'modem', can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo

  Dave Barry

  Exactly Is, Data, Ducks

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down”, p.175, Ballantine Books

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• The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.

  Bill Gates

  Inspiring, Success, Business

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• People depend on the Open Internet to connect and communicate with each other freely. Voters need it to inform themselves before casting ballots. Without prompt corrective action by the Commission to reclassify broadband, this awful ruling will serve as a sorry memorial to the corporate abrogation of free speech.

  Michael Copps

  Sorry, People, Memorial

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• When you make the claim that something on the Internet is going to be good for democracy, you often [hear], 'Are you talking about the thing with the singing cats?'

  Clay Shirky

  Cat, Talking, Singing

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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, Internet Users

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• I'm a great believer in particularly being alert to changes that change something, anything, by an order of magnitude, and nothing operates with the factors of 10 as profoundly as the Internet.

  Andy Grove

  Change, Order, Magnitude

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• What we need is a plan B ... independent of the Internet. [It] doesn't necessarily have to have the performance of the Internet, but the police department has to be able to call up the fire department.

  Danny Hillis

  Motivation, Inspiration, Independent

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• In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

  Bill Gates

  Running, Money, Funny Inspirational

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• It's like they say in the Internet world — if you're doing the same thing today you were doing six months ago, you're doing the wrong thing. Parents can learn a lot from that.

  Bruce Feiler

  Parent, Six Months, World

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• If you hear an expert talking about the Internet and saying it [does] this, or it will do that, you should treat it with the same skepticism that you might treat the comments of an economist about the economy or a weatherman about the weather.

  Danny Hillis

  Motivation, Inspiration, Talking

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• People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium. And I think we probably do need to pay some more attention to that, because it's actually kind of fragile.

  Danny Hillis

  Motivation, Communication, Inspiration

  "The Internet could crash. We need a Plan B". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2013.

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• [On Chinese Internet,] freedom is a targeted and precise window.

  Michael Anti

  Chinese, Internet Freedom, Window

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