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• As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world.

  Ron Wyden

  Oregon, Innovation, Use

  "We Can’t Take the Internet for Granted" by Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 16, 2011.

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• Angry Birds is one of the fastest-growing online products I've seen, growing even faster than Skype, and the company has done a brilliant job of extending it across different platforms and merchandise.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Jobs, Bird, Different

  "Angry Birds Creator Raises $42 Million" by Evelyn M. Rusli, dealbook.nytimes.com. March 10, 2011.

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• The smartest thing I did was to stop going online. I'm the sort of person who will just look for the negative - Michael really can't understand it, but that's just the way I am. And with my bipolar thing, that's poison. So I just stopped. Cold turkey. And it's so liberating.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Turkeys, Bipolar, Negative

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• Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online.

  Felicia Day

  Children, People, Theater

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, tv.avclub.com. November 6, 2008.

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• I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day.

  Felicia Day

  Games, Eight, Personality

  "How Felicia Day Recruited Millions For Her Guild". Interview with Gus Mastrapa, www.wired.com. September 29, 2009.

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• I do find some of the meanest, most exclusionary people are the nerds. And they rebel against other nerds! What are you doing? As much as I love nerds and the nerd movement, the nerd-on-nerd violence is really bad. A lot of times, nerds are the meanest ones online. And also, the trolling can be very extensive because they're smart.

  Chris Hardwick

  Smart, People, Nerd

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• I don't think a true company - one that builds sustainable value - can ever only exist online or remotely.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Thinking, Company, Values

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• The best remote companies I've seen do almost everything online, via email and telephone. But they also get together face to face on a regular basis.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Together, Faces, Telephones

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• My hunch is that people often affiliate with causes online for selfish and narcissistic purposes. Sometimes, it may be as simple as trying to impress their online friends, and once you have fashioned that identity, there is very little reason to actually do anything else.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Selfish, Simple, People

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• Military commanders do not want to be tried for war crimes, even if those crimes are committed online.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Military, War, Want

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• Calling China's online censorship system a 'Great Firewall' is increasingly trendy, but misleading. All walls, being the creation of engineers, can be breached with the right tools.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Wall, Tools, Calling

  "Why the Internet is a great tool for totalitarians" by Evgeny Morozov, www.wired.com. December 27, 2010.

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• I used to work for an NGO called Transitions Online, and I was their Director of New Media. I was a very idealistic fellow who thought that he could use blogs, social networks and new media to help promote democracy, human rights and freedom of expression.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Rights, Media, Expression

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• Personalization can be very useful in some contexts but very harmful in others. Searching for pizza online, it's probably OK to keep showing the same pizza shop as your No. 1 choice. I don't see any big political consequences out of that.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Choices, Political, Bigs

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• Russian young people spend countless hours online downloading videos and having a very nice digital entertainment lifestyle, which does not necessarily turn them into the next Che Guevara.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Nice, People, Doe

  "The Tunisia Twitter Revolution That Wasn’t". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. January 27, 2011.

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• Sleephackers go to bed with sensors on their wrists and foreheads and maintain detailed electronic sleep diaries, which they often share online. To shift between sleep phases, sleephackers experiment with various diets, room and body temperatures, and kinds of pre-sleep physical exercise.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Sleep, Exercise, Bed

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• The decentralized nature of online conversations often makes it easier to manipulate public opinion, both domestically and globally. Regimes that once relied on centralized systems of media control can now deliver ideological messages more subtly, with the help of little-known intermediaries like anonymous commenters on websites.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Media, Public Opinion, Littles

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• The director of the FBI has been visiting Silicon Valley companies asking them to build back doors so that it can spy on what is being said online. The Department of Commerce is going after piracy. At home, the American government wants anything but Internet freedom.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Home, Government, Doors

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• You know, it's not a given that there is an 'online' and 'offline' world out there. When you use the telephone, you don't say that I'm entering some 'telephono-sphere.' You don't say that, and there is no obvious need to say that when you are using a modem.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Needs, Entering, Use

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• Just as TurboTax simplified much of the tax process, so has the colossally scary legal process been reduced to a kinder, gentler series of mouse clicks and 'Continue' buttons by LegalZoom, the online leader that has become so prominent in its market that it's practically a generic.

  Lynda Resnick

  Leader, Scary, Buttons

  "Satisfy Your Legal Needs Fast in This Zoom-Zoom World" by Lynda Resnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2009.

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• One thing we didn't know in 1996 is that it's very, very difficult, if not impossible, to sustain a culture with online advertising.

  Howard Rheingold

  Culture, Impossible, Advertising

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• Communicating online goes back to the Defense Department's Arpanet which started in 1969. There was something called Usenet that started in 1980, and this gave people an opportunity to talk about things that people on these more official networks didn't talk about.

  Howard Rheingold

  Opportunity, People, Defense

  "WELL, Birthplace Of Online Movement Is Up For Sale". Interview with David Greene, www.npr.org. September 3, 2012.

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• The easiest way to figure out who the customer is in an online space is to figure out who is paying for the thing. Usually, the people paying are the customers. So on Facebook, the people paying are marketers. That makes them the customers. And it means we are the product being delivered to those customers.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Mean, Space, People

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• New content online no longer requires new stories or information, just new ways of linking things to other things. Or as the social networks might put it to you, 'Jane is now friends with Tom.' The connection has been made; the picture is getting more complete.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Connections, Stories, Might

  Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.126, Penguin

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• Online advertising may not be much more successful than an old double-barrel, but - like a good spray of buckshot - it makes up for its lack of accuracy with sheer volume. There are 10 unique ads listed with every Gmail message in your queue, each tied to the message content. And a paying sponsor.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Successful, Unique, May

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• We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are remotely interested or aware of their own recent history, much less their neighbors'. I tend to think we are what we remember, what we know. The less we remember, the less we know about ourselves, the less we are. (Interview with Three Monkeys Online, October 2008)

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Thinking, People, Three

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