Internet Quotes - Page 33

• 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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• I think there's confusion around what the point of social networks is. A lot of different companies characterized as social networks have different goals - some serve the function of business networking, some are media portals. What we're trying to do is just make it really efficient for people to communicate, get information and share information.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Thinking, Media, People

  "The Future of Facebook". Interview with Laura Locke, content.time.com. July 17, 2007.

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• The diversity of web browsers tomorrow will match the diversity of ink browsers (aka paper) today

  Bill Buxton

  Aka, Diversity, Ink

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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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• I was raised on the internet.

  Lena Dunham

  Raised

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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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• I invented the web just because I needed it really because it was so frustrating that it didn't exit.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Exit, Frustrating, Needed

  "Rushes Sequences - Tim Berners-Lee interview - Ghana (Video)". Interview with Aleks Krotoski, www.bbc.co.uk. October 26, 2009.

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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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• Universality has been the key enabler of innovation on the Web and will continue to be so in the future.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Keys, Innovation, Universality

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• Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001.

  Bill Delahunt

  Cost, States, Taxes

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• Web applications will become more and more ubiquitous throughout our human environment, with walls, automobile dashboards, refrigerator doors all serving as displays giving us a window onto the Web.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Wall, Doors, Giving

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• There are converging web-related issues cropping up, like privacy and security, that we currently have no way of thinking about. Nobody has thought to look at how people and the web combine as a whole - until now.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Thinking, Issues, 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 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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• I'm actually doing a show. From my shed. On the internet. But it won't be music or anything, it's more to do with drinking and smoking. It's an art piece.

  Vince Clarke

  Art, Drinking, Marijuana

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

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

  Eric Schmidt

  Information, Becoming, Thrive

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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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• 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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