World Wide Web Quotes

• The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Technology, Squares

  1999 Business@the Speed of Thought (co-written with Collins Hemingway).

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• The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.

  Jon Stewart

  Networking, World, Internet Users

  "Reinventing Television". Interview with Thomas Gotez, www.wired.com. September 1, 2005.

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• Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

  Mitchell Kapor

  Technology, Fire, Data Collection

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• The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and not as a technical toy.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  People, Working Together, Toys

  "Weaving the Web". Book by Tim Berners-Lee, 1999.

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• The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Business, Years, Fundamentals

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• Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.

  Vinton Cerf

  Long, Growth, Doe

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• The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  World, Breakthrough, Technological

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• The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and not as a technical toy. The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies. We develop trust across the miles and distrust around the corner.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Science, Technology, People

  "Weaving the Web". Book by Tim Berners-Lee, 1999.

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• The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

  Eric Schmidt

  Humanity, Criminals, Criminal Mind

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• Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Knowledge, Speak English, Internet Users

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

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• I believe that the World Wide Web is, as a matter of fact, the noogenesis of the noosphere of the future. This is it!

  Ralph Abraham

  Believe, World, Matter

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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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• By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.

  Vinton Cerf

  Innovation, Internet, Middle

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• The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than what it's short for.

  Douglas Adams

  Three, World, Form

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.85, Del Rey

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• During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.

  Al Gore

  Stupid, Technology, Creating

  "Who Invented the Internet? (It Wasn’t Al Gore)". "Glenn Beck Program", September 15, 2016.

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• Getting an education at MIT is like taking a drink from a fire hose.

  Jerome Wiesner

  Technology, Fire, Ict

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• I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.

  Dan Millman

  Mother, Religious, Technology

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• Good telling of human stories is the best way to keep the Internet and World Wide Web from becoming a waste vastland.

  Walter Isaacson

  Stories, World, Way

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• Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.

  Clifford Stoll

  Technology, Two, Yellow

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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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• The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted.

  Jon Postel

  World, Spectacular, Wide

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• I'm not a politician, and I do not think I am as effective in this way as people who actually prepare for it - is to focus on technical reform, because I speak the language of technology. I spoke with Tim Berners-Lee, the guy who invented the World Wide Web. We agree on the necessity for this generation to create what he calls the Magna Carta for the Internet. We want to say what "digital rights" should be. What values should we be protecting, and how do we assert them.

  Edward Snowden

  Technology, Thinking, Rights

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• It's not the world wide web. It's the women wide web.

  Tiffany Shlain

  World, Wide

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• Coffee has assumed a social meaning that goes far beyond the simple black brew in the cup. The worldwide coffee culture is more than a culture - it is a cult. There are usenet newsgroups on the subject, along with innumerable sites on the World Wide Web, and Starbucks outlets populate every street corner, vying for space with other coffeehouses and chains. And after all is said and done, it's just the pit of a berry from an Ethiopian shrub.

  Mark Pendergrast

  Coffee, Simple, Space

  "Quite a jolt for a simple berry" by Mark Pendergrast, www.cnn.com. August 4, 1999.

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• I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Mind, World, Damage

  "Interview with the Web’s Creator". Interview With Chris Oakes, www.wired.com. October 23, 1999.

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