Internet Quotes - Page 32

• I think more things are becoming socially acceptable. I think that just by having more media, whether that's TV or Internet, we're able to see more things.

  Brie Larson

  Thinking, Media, Able

  "Brie Larson 21 JUMP STREET Set Visit Interview". Interview with Brendan Bettinger, collider.com. February 15, 2012.

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• One must be wary of the view that these loose and diverse coalitions represent a new form of globalized participatory democracy. The dissent industry is largely a product of the Internet revolution. Inexpensive, borderless, real-time networking provides advocacy non-governmental organizations [NGOs] with economies of scale and also of scope by linking widely disparate groups with one common theme.

  Sylvia Ostry

  Real, Views, Organization

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• Many people bypass search engines altogether and still find what they're looking for online. These Internet surfers are using direct navigation.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  People, Bypass, Navigation

  Marc Ostrofsky (2013). “Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• I ended up buying business.com for $150,000 because I wanted to make it a magazine. It would have been a 'Time'-type magazine: how to do business on the Internet. And I was offered a lot of money for that domain. I played two buyers against each other.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Two, Magazines, Buying

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• Internet entrepreneurs are using technology at every level of their company - from a one-person agency to a small firm, the newest technological advances are interwoven throughout every aspect of Internet-based businesses.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Technology, Agency, Entrepreneur

  "David vs. Goliath: Internet Entrepreneurship vs. Corporate America" by Marc Ostrofsky, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2011.

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• The number of small businesses in the United States totals about 25 million. Because most of these have a local trading territory, relatively few advertise online. Online advertising reaches the masses of the Internet world, whether they are local or not.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Numbers, United States, World

  Marc Ostrofsky (2013). “Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• There's an idea out there that salespeople have actually been obliterated by the Internet, which is just not supported by the facts.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Ideas, Facts, Salespeople

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• I do not buy CDs any more; I usually stream Internet radio. For movies, I hardly every buy any DVDS. I have a DVR, so just record things off HBO, Showtime and so on.

  Oren Peli

  Hbo, Dvds, Cds

  "Oren Peli: 'I'm not a nerd or a luddite, I'm a geek really'". Interview With Stuart O'Connor, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2010.

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• On the internet nobody can hear you being subtle.

  Linus Torvalds

  Subtle

  "Linus Torvalds' Best Quotes from LinuxCon Europe 2014". Interview with Dirk Hohndel, www.linuxfoundation.org. October 15, 2014.

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• The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like.

  Pete du Pont

  New York, Sea, Age

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• Oh God, it's such a big world right now for artists. There are as many possibilities as you can have time for, getting your music out there with the internet, and Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook, and everything that you have, there is a way to spread the word. To me, the first thing you have to have is substance and content and real depth.

  Amy Ray

  Real, Artist, Firsts

  "Lung Of Love : A Conversation With Amy Ray". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2012.

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• It would probably break my heart to hear that people didn't like me. I don't look on the Internet.

  Elisabeth Rohm

  Heart, People, Looks

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• I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as broad. I would listen to the radio, hear cars pass by playing a song, or tape songs off of the radio. At that time, there was such an excitement around hip-hop music.

  Michael Rapaport

  Song, New York, Cities

  "Michael Rapaport’s Vision Quest". Interview with Steven Prigge, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 24, 2011.

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• Most troublesome is the legalization of 'crowd funding,' the ability of start-up companies to raise capital from small investors on the Internet.

  Steven Rattner

  Crowds, Funding, Ability

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• I don't go on the Internet. I never go on the Internet. I don't go on Twitter. I'm not on Facebook. I've seen friends go into dark, dark holes of sadness because of that. Frankly, I don't have the time or the attention span for it.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Sadness, Dark, Attention

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• Nothing's faster than the Internet.

  Anna Sui

  Faster

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• In a wristwatch, imagine the battery is in the strap and there's a medical sensor in there connected to the internet. If someone is monitoring that, they could phone up if the user has forgotten to take some medication. This could save hundreds of dollars in medical fees later. What's missing? It's a stable battery.

  Donald Sadoway

  Phones, Missing, Dollars

  "The beauty of bendable batteries" by Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2005.

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• I am investing like a crazy person, mostly in internet start-ups. And I want to invest in Brazil as well, because I am Brazilian and that's in my heart.

  Eduardo Saverin

  Crazy, Heart, Investing

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• The Internet has helped atheists and agnostics coalesce as never before.

  Lee Strobel

  Atheist

  "Lee Strobel: We're on Cusp of Golden Era of Apologetics". Interview with Alex Murashko, www.christianpost.com. January 22, 2012.

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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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• Along with planes, running water, electricity, and motorized transportation, the internet is now a fundamental fact of modern life.

  danah boyd

  Running, Water, Modern Life

  danah boyd (2014). “It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens”, p.26, Yale University Press

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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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• Computers are so deeply stupid. What bother me most when they talk about technology is they don't realize how much more exciting their minds are. That machine is stupid. And boring. It does just a few things and then it'll crash. People think, 'I am on the Net, I am in touch with the world'. Wrong! The point is how we work, not how machines work.

  Laurie Anderson

  Stupid, Technology, Thinking

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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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