Online Quotes - Page 24

• I read something once that when you're online, your inhibitions are lowered to the state where you've had three drinks. Once you basically know that the entire internet is slightly drunk, it all makes a lot more sense, and you deport yourself accordingly.

  Caitlin Moran

  Drunk, Three, Internet

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• The online credential, the online certificate is very different from an on campus certificate. And we really believe that online learning and the EdX platform and the EdX portal, these are ways in which - you can think of them as a rising tide that's going to lift all boats whether for students worldwide or on our campuses.

  John Agar

  Believe, Thinking, Online Learning

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• The Internet changes everything. People are online meeting boyfriends and girlfriends, you don't have to be out drinking and drugging to find somebody nowadays.

  Larry Tee

  Girlfriend, Drinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The first thing that editor does is they take out a red pen, or nowadays you go online, and they start striking things. Basically eliminating things, the biggest task of an editor is to simplify, simplify, simplify and that usually means omitting things.

  Keith Rabois

  Mean, Editors, Red

  "How To Start A Startup". Y Combinator’s CS183B Stanford Class. Lecture 14: How to Operate,

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• Let's not build the policy around the abuse. That's not good policy. That's actually bad policy. Build the policy around the aspiration point. That's what we need to do when we're seeing abuse online.

  Kamala Harris

  Abuse, Needs, Aspiration

  "The Lenny Interview: Kamala Harris, the Senate Hopeful, Going After Revenge Porn". Interview with Doreen St. Félix, www.elle.com. October 23, 2015.

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• You can never compare a stadium full of people to statistics online ... There's something about seeing people's faces, and it's amazing [seeing how] things online can also be translated offline.

  Lilly Singh

  People, Statistics, Faces

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I don't own a computer. I've never seen anything online at all - nothing. I don't own a word processor. I have none of that stuff. It's not an act of rebellion. I'm just not a gadget person.

  Woody Allen

  Gadgets, Stuff, Computer

  "Woody Allen On ‘Irrational Man’, His Movies & Hollywood’s Perilous Path – Cannes Q&A" by Mike Fleming Jr, deadline.com. May 14, 2015.

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• Look at 4chan culture, which is the ultimate version of shedding your IRL [in real life] identity - you don't even keep a consistent screen name from thread to thread. That's very important to them, this belief in the possibility that what I do online is completely separate from who I really am.

  Arthur Chu

  Real, Names, Important

  "This “Jeopardy!” Champ and Proud Geek Gives Swirlies to Gamergaters in His Spare Time". Interview with Tasneem Raja, www.motherjones.com. November 11, 2014.

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• I wouldn't call it a silver lining, but with more women speaking up, online harassment is beginning to be taken more seriously.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Taken, Speaking Up, Silver

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• What you see online isn't real. How many likes you get on Instagram doesn't have any bearing on how good of a person you are, how good your heart is. It's all for fun; it shouldn't affect you so deeply.

  Ingrid Michaelson

  Fun, Real, Heart

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'll continue to act when the roles are available, and when I get offered something. But creating original content on my YouTube channel and not having to go through networks or studios, the freedom you have to just do it online, I'm never giving that up.

  Reagan Gomez-Preston

  Creating, Giving, Roles

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I study how governments seek to stifle and control online dissent.

  Rebecca MacKinnon

  Government, Study, Dissent

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• I'm going to go do this crazy thing. I'm going to start this company selling books online.

  Jeff Bezos

  Crazy, Book, Selling

  "King of Cyber-Commerce". "The Academy of Achievement" Interview, www.achievement.org. May 4, 2001.

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• The spread of online information isn't just good for charities. It's also good for donors. You can go to a site like Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofits on their financial health as well as the amount of information they share about their work.

  Bill Gates

  Charity, Nonprofits, Information

  "Technology Means Everyone Can Be a Philanthropist" by Bill Gates, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 4, 2013.

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• When I discovered PopTech and other kind of intellectualish, online portals for curiosity. Very quickly, I just got so much more out of those than from so-called "Ivy League" education that I knew it was on me to keep myself stimulated, and to keep learning, more than anything. And, because I paid my way through college, I was working at Penn, two to four jobs at a time to pay for school.

  Maria Popova

  Jobs, School, College

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• A great piece of advice for online dating is to stand out from the crowd. So greetings like "hello" and "hi" are very common. They do less well than things that are a little bit quirky or a little bit weird, like "howdy" or "holla." The rarer your salutation, the better it does, in general.

  Christian Rudder

  Dating, Advice, Quirky

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• People tend to prefer their own race online in terms of the volume of messages.

  Christian Rudder

  Race, People, Messages

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The drilling idea is spherically senseless - it's senseless from whatever point of view you look at it. It'd take 10 years to bring any oil online, and it would probably go to Japan. It sure wouldn't help gasoline prices here. All the economists say gasoline is still too cheap in the United States anyway. So here we're having this huge debate over offshore drilling that is just straightforward nonsense, which won't surprise you.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Japan, Views, Years

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• I was never really satisfied with writing only text or with the way my texts looked when they were published. Most online journals have a pretty lame sense of typography - bad font, counter-intuitive margins and line spacing - that it makes me sour on my writing.

  Masha Tupitsyn

  Writing, Lame, Fonts

  "True Lovers are as Rare as True Rebels". Interview with Jacob Wren, logger.believermag.com. October 24, 2013.

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• There is no point in criticizing readers for migrating online. You have to follow them and offer them something new.

  Mathias Dopfner

  Something New, Criticize, Reader

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• Ambition is something you turn into a plan to create an online personality, a brand, a network.

  Cris Mazza

  Ambition, Personality, Turns

  "My discoveries weren’t any more extensive or alarming than most people’s. I just chose to look". Interview with Antonia Crane, logger.believermag.com. November 5, 2013.

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• I'm a big believer in online communities and in user-generated content.

  Michael Dell

  Community, Bigs, Believer

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Stripe really did come about because we were really appalled by how hard it was to charge for things online.

  John Collison

  Stripes, Hard

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• When a country doesn't have a good economic infrastructure, that harms the country. With Stripe, the idea is that by providing better infrastructure, by linking the Internet economically, by making it easier for these online businesses to exist, it'll make the web better.

  John Collison

  Country, Ideas, Stripes

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• With Stripe, people who previously operated online or offline in a very limited capacity now have all the tools to work like a real online business. That's a very valuable thing.

  John Collison

  Real, People, Stripes

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