Internet Quotes - Page 35

• The internet has no government, no constitution, no laws, no rights, no police, no courts. Don't talk about fairness or innocence, and don't talk about what should be done. Instead, talk about what is being done and what will be done by the amorphous unreachable undefinable blob called the internet user base.

  Paul Vixie

  Law, Rights, Government

  NANOG mailing list, 2004.

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• Any outcome, any deal that doesn't preserve the freedom and openness of the Internet for consumers and entrepreneurs will be unacceptable.

  Julius Genachowski

  Entrepreneur, Outcomes, Openness

  "Net Neutrality Brawl: FCC Is Not Happy with Google and Verizon" by Ben Parr, abcnews.go.com. August 6, 2010.

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• The Internet is just one of those things that contemporary humans can spend millions of "practice" events at, that the average human a thousand years ago had absolutely no exposure to. Our brains are massively remodeled by this exposure--but so, too, by reading, by television, by video games, by modern electronics, by contemporary music, by contemporary "tools," etc.

  Michael Merzenich

  Reading, Average, Years

  "Are we getting smarter or dumber?". Interview with Stefanie Olsen, www.cnet.com. September 21, 2005.

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• I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data on. The rise of Internet commerce completely altered the amount of information you could gather on company behavior so I naturally drifted toward it.

  Austan Goolsbee

  Data, Information, Behavior

  "Goolsbee gets top W.H. econ job" by Mike Allen, www.politico.com. September 10, 2010.

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• I tried to grow up. Honest. Didn’t quite happen. I guess I’m someone for whom youth still seems more real than the present, or the half century in between. And why not? I'm deeply underwhelmed by most contemporary art, literature, music, films, TV, the heinous little phones, money talk, real estate talk, all that stuff. The Internet, which at first seemed so fascinating, appears to be evolving into something even worse than TV, but we'll see.

  Donald Fagen

  Art, Growing Up, Real

  Donald Fagen (2013). “Eminent Hipsters”, p.5, Penguin

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• The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer.

  Ward Cunningham

  Wrong Answers, Way, Computer

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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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• 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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• We don't need women. There are plenty other things in the world to have sex with, just go to a sexaholics meeting and take notes. There's microwaved watermelons. There's the vibrating handles of lawn mowers right at crotch level. There's vacuum cleaners and beanbag chairs. Internet sites. All those old chat room sex hounds pretending to be sixteen-year-old girls. For serious, old FBI guys makes the sexiest cyberbabes.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Girl, Sex, Years

  "Choke". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2001.

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• Then people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the internet.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  People, Software

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• Each time you toss out a 'singing' greeting card, you are disposing of more computing power than existed in the entire world before 1950.

  Paul Saffo

  Singing, Cards, World

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• Jeff Bezos is opening a retail store and owns a newspaper. Turns out everything we thought about the Internet is wrong.

  Aaron Levie

  Retail, Newspapers, Stores

  Twitter post from Oct 09, 2014

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• So along with several very popular Internet sites, talk radio has served as alternative media that gives listeners information that they otherwise would not hear.

  Paul Weyrich

  Song, Media, Giving

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• Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.

  Horace

  Judging, Judgement, Guilty

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• The best answer to bad speech is good speech

  Alan Dershowitz

  Answers, Speech, Free Speech

  Alan M. Dershowitz (1994). “Contrary to Popular Opinion”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S. Tax Code look like Dr. Seuss.

  Dave Barry

  Reading, People, Trying

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, p.50, Ballantine Books

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• Digital wisdom is made of recycled electrons that are meaningful until you pull the plug.

  Don Rittner

  Meaningful, Digital, Made

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• Civility is only a passenger - not a driver - on the information superhighway.

  Don Rittner

  Information, Civility, Passengers

  Don Rittner (1999). “The IMac Book”, Coriolis Group

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• Rittner's Computer Law: Never argue with people who write with digital ink and pay by the kilowatt-hour.

  Don Rittner

  Writing, Law, People

  Don Rittner (1999). “The IMac Book”, Coriolis Group

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• The Net is the ultimate empowerment tool. You have the right to express your opinion to a global audience, but everyone has the right not to pay any attention to it.

  Don Rittner

  Empowerment, Tools, Attention

  Don Rittner (1999). “The IMac Book”, Coriolis Group

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• It's the internet like the flu - it just spreads like crazy.

  Jack Welch

  Crazy, Flu, Spread

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• If you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was a surprise to me - that people were prepared to painstakingly write HTML.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Writing, Html, People

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• We are seeing pioneers moving out to the Internet, banks that are taking transactions, retail shopping on the Internet, and although it's going to take most of a decade before most adults are turning to the Internet for a high percentage of their act

  Bill Gates

  Moving, Shopping, Adults

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• Kids are taking PCs and the Internet to new heights. They're the ones that are designing the cutting-edge web sites.

  Bill Gates

  Kids, Cutting, Design

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• The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?

  Clay Shirky

  Why Not, Mass, Publishing

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