INTERNET QUOTES II

quotations about the Internet

Look at the walls of Pompeii. That's what got the internet started.

ROBIN WILLIAMS

The Guardian, September 20, 2010

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In my head I'm still living and working as if there is no internet, and treat it as a nuisance.

JACK WHITE

The Guardian, November 26, 2014


The internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated.

PRINCE

The Guardian, November 26, 2014

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The net has provided a level playing field for criticism and comment -- anyone and everyone is entitled to their opinion -- and that is one of its greatest strengths.

SARA SHERIDAN

The Guardian, April 14, 2011


The Internet is like a magic door that democratizes communication. It empowers you to reach almost anyone, anywhere, and offers you virtual space to represent your own interests.

NATALIE CANAVOR

Business Writing for Dummies


There're so many ads on the Internet these days, they should call it the InfoMERCIAL Superhighway!

TOM WILSON

Ziggy, Nov. 5, 1999

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That's the beauty of the Web: You can roll around in a stranger's obsession without having to smell his or her house.

PENN JILLETTE

"Penn's Columns", Penn & Teller


The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that you and I believe, the almost equal access to your kids as your youth pastor and you have ... whether you like it or not.

JOSH MCDOWELL

"Apologist Josh McDowell: Internet the Greatest Threat to Christians", Christian Post, 2011


The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance. Now ... cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. And of course to hunt down sedition.

BEN ELTON

Blind Faith


The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society. But if you look at the latest figures for internet use, things such as pornography and e-shopping overwhelm everything else.

NOAM CHOMSKY

"Peace netter", The Guardian, October 16, 2002

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People like to swap stories, period, and the internet is like a big electronic campfire.

ANNE JAMISON

Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World


The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

ANDREW BROWN

attributed, Tweet This Book: The 1,400 Greatest Quotes of All Time in 140 Characters or Less


My friend Daniel and I started checking out the Internet at our local library, where you had to take a class on how to use the Netscape browser before you were allowed to use it. Even though anyone under the age of thirty instantly knew exactly what to do within five seconds of looking at the browser, the librarian carefully explained the function of such buttons as Stop, Back, Forward, and Refresh while adults nodded their heads thoughtfully. We passed the class and got special endorsements on our library cards that allowed us to sign up for times to use the Internet-enabled computers. The sign-ups had to be done--brace yourself--by phone or with a pencil and paper at the actual library.

JOEL HENG HARTSE

Sects, Love, and Rock & Roll: My Life on Record


Information taken from the Internet is like fast food: it is quick, easy to appreciate, and convenient.

KARL BRIDGES

Expectations of Librarians in the 21st Century


Wishing away the Internet is like envisioning a world without electricity and indoor plumbing.

JAY JORDAN

Weaving Libraries Into the Web


Twenty years ago no one could have imagined the effects the Internet would have: entire relationships flourish, friendships prosper ... there's a vast new intimacy and accidental poetry, not to mention the weirdest porn. The entire human experience seems to unveil itself like the surface of a new planet.

J. G. BALLARD

"Age of Unreason", The Guardian, June 22, 2004

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The Internet is like a vault with a screen door on the back. I don't need hammers and bombs to get in when I can walk in through the door.

WILLIAM R. CHESWICK

"Cracks in the Net", Time, February 27, 1995


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

"Google Chief: My Fears for Generation Facebook", The Independent, August 17, 2010


Any idiot can put up a website.

PATRICIA BRIGGS

Blood Bound

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During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

AL GORE

often misquoted as "I invented the Internet", CNN Late Edition, March 9, 1999

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