Internet Quotations | Page 2

Making a fool out of yourself and putting it on the Internet is one of the best bonding experiences you could have.

At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.

Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern life.

The secret of the Internet's success has been its openness to new services.

I think 'Lost' was really a pioneer in the use of the kind of connection between a television show and the Internet, and the Internet really gave fans an opportunity to create a community around the show. That was something that wasn't really planned; it just sort of grew up in the wake of the show.

The Internet's a big enough place for everybody to be happy.

Knowledge in the Internet Age - networked knowledge - is becoming more like what knowledge has been in the past few hundreds years for scientists: it's provisional; it's a hypothesis that is waiting to be disproved.

There are lots of lessons to learn from Amazon. Never stop innovating or questioning the fundamentals of your business. Disrupt yourself before others do. Continually motivate employees so that they never get too complacent - see Yahoo, AOL and many other Internet companies for evidence of what happens when they do.

I feel like the Internet has really freed everything up to an extent, hasn't it? That radio maybe doesn't have quite the power that it had before.

I feel like the Internet has embraced the pizza dance. I feel appreciated for once in my life.

I don't immerse myself in the Internet chatter because it opens you up to a whole source of danger.

I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.

Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want.

I don't think that Yahoo or any other Internet company should try to become a television network, ... We will be nowhere if we have to create our own content.

Remember the movie 'The Matrix,' where virtual information popped up to help inform physical day-to-day reality? Such things won't always be the stuff of Hollywood. If the Internet is accessible via contact lenses, biographies will appear next to the faces of the people we talk to, and we will see subtitles if they speak a foreign language.

There is no Constitutional right to prey on others. The Internet is just a piece of technology, like the telephone. Society has the right to modify its uses.

The notion of the Internet as a force of political and social revolution is not a new one. As far back as the early 1990s, in the early days of the World Wide Web, there were technologists and writers arguing forcefully that the Internet was destined to become the most important tool for cultural change in human history.

No matter how much it's growing, the Internet still is a pretty specific demographic. It doesn't necessarily represent the general populace.

Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going.

I just sit around at home, and I have nothing to do, so I am on the Internet all the time.

The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.

I don't really use the Internet or the newspapers to find out about people.

The future is electronic. It's radio, television and the Internet; it's not really newspapers anymore.

In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.

Luckily for both the tech industry and Hollywood, there is only one thing that counts - use of the Internet is still growing exponentially, as consumers shift to digital everything from analog.

I think fans going to concerts expect more today in terms of meeting and things. It's cool - I get it because of how the Internet has made things much more personal for fans to follow with Facebook, Twitter and everything - but I also think it's kind of hindering because it takes from the music in a way.

The Internet may well disempower the nation state, but at the same time, it also strengthens certain specific state functions - like surveillance. As a political entity, it doesn't empower the nation sate. It creates the availability of much more data than the digestive system of the nation state could possibly assimilate.

Our communications services revenue growth is being driven by continued strong top-line performance in data, Internet and international -- three of the fastest growing and most profitable areas within communications services.

I think one of the bigger lessons the Internet has taught us is that 'niche' or 'subculture' are a lot bigger than anyone ever thought.

Eventually I foresee voting on the Internet, which will lead to much more direct democracy.

I'm not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it. It's probably just because I'm a weird person.

Advertising at its worst will be killed by the Internet. And rightly so.

I don't like to read the Internet; I'm not aware of what's going on.

There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.

You can't chase everybody on the Internet who's saying stuff about you, that's for sure.

AIR was born from thinking about how rich Internet applications would play out over time and what new pieces of technology would be in demand for these to go to their next generation.

I loved Internet businesses, having built and sold one. And I loved the financial business, despite the fact that it was almost all a scam.

With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy.

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

I actually barely ever go on the Internet.

The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it's allowed is silos of interest.

The nature of the internet is that you don't know who is behind the screen.

I have this really bad habit of doing things on the Internet and forgetting that the whole world is going to see it.

I would say the consumer Internet companies - in a lot of ways, if you go inside the consumer Internet companies and you see how they run, it's how all their businesses are going to run.

I don't really use YouTube that much. I am a very Internet-oriented person, but I'm more of a Twitter freak - I'm always on Twitter. Or chatting with friends.

Eventually, if you had a printer that is IPP compliant, that printer will have a Web address and anyone around the world who can get on the Internet can print to that URL.

You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.

When it comes to the Internet, people like dealing with people.

It's high time for a fresh European alternative to enter the market, taking the existing Internet behemoths head on. What the world needs now is a cloud storage service that is not subject to uncontrolled access by intelligence agencies.

We speak of 'software eating the world,' 'the Internet of Things,' and we massify 'data' by declaring it 'Big.' But these concepts remain for the most part abstract. It's hard for many of us to grasp the impact of digital technology on the 'real world' of things like rocks, homes, cars, and trees. We lack a metaphor that hits home.

A lot of the websites built through the 1990s used Perl. The first webmaster of Sun Microsystems coined a wonderful phrase. He said Perl is the duck tape of the Internet - it's this language that people would write all these scripts that make things just work.

I hate auditioning; it makes me more nervous than anything ever, and I always feel like I wasted my time and I could have been creating my own thing. With the Internet, you have so much freedom that 'gatekeepers' make me terrified.

I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.

The great thing about the Internet is that it allows people to find and consume music.

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

The Internet is a computing platform built on top of core technology. Applied technology is what gets built on top of that: It's Web services.

I have one major problem with the Internet: It's full of liars.

A lot of things you want to do as part of daily life can now be done over the Internet.

There's an idea out there that salespeople have actually been obliterated by the Internet, which is just not supported by the facts.

I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really

Eventually, somewhere - be it on the Internet or somewhere else - I will host some version of 'The Daily Show.'

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.

To find a pool of lawyers from whom to choose, solicit referrals from other professionals you know or deal with - an accountant, banker or business leader. Check out Bar Association listings as well, and don't neglect Internet research.

My biggest mistake was when I started up easyEverything, a chain of Internet cafes. The idea that people would go to a shop to use a computer was revolutionary in 1999. It worked for a while, but cheap technology almost killed it. One silver lining of the problems I faced was that it gave me experience of turnarounds.

If you had to find a period in history that would equate to what the Internet has presented us with now, it would be Elizabethan England. It was a world in flux.

The Internet provides the access to resources, so it's incumbent upon the people who control those resources to make sure that the economic engine stays intact.

If you're looking to make a basic living selling and playing your music, the Internet is all you really need.

I don't know much about international policing and I would love to learn more. Especially in this day and age when the Internet is rapidly reducing borders and crime can happen on a larger scale than ever before. These things intrigue me.

At any time of day, hundreds of different versions of Facebook are running on the Internet - with a changed color here, a moved button there - and the user response to each variation is measured. And the same is done with advertising.

I love being an enigma. Every time I'm tempted to respond to someone who tries to put me in a box, politically - you know, someone who gets on the Internet and says, you're pro-gun, or you're anti-gun - I stop and say to myself, 'This is great; this is what I wanted. I wanted to be the guy you can't figure out.'

We have already discovered how quickly we become dependent on the Internet and its applications for business, government and research, so it is not surprising that we are finding that we can apply this technology to enable or facilitate our social interactions as well.

In the future, it's going to move from being just a data transport to really becoming a media experience platform. The Internet will be more about media, more about collaboration, much more virtualized and much more green.

With the Internet, if you erase something it just means you have to spend another half-minute to find it.

I love my DSL, but I love my WiFi more. And I probably get on the Internet 40 percent to 50 percent more because of the combination of those technologies.

Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.

I'm interested in how the Internet spreads information.

I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.

After 'Memory Keeper's Daughter,' it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the Internet and sort of cloister myself away from the world again and sink into that psychic space to write again.

The Internet is the greatest tool for any artist to have interaction with any audience.

Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.

If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to build upon as they see fit.

I love those stretches where I've just been a writer - when I haven't been doing Internet start-ups - where I pretty much eliminate meetings from my life.

From the growth of the Internet through to the mapping of the human genome and our understanding of the human brain, the more we understand, the more there seems to be for us to explore.

Those who are seeking ways to tap into the potential of e-mail will find themselves in a position to capitalize on the pending explosion in Internet usage.

The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand.

There is no Internet business in furniture or bedding. Zero - practically in the world.

The Internet has made it much more effective and cheaper to spread propaganda.

Feminism rotates between backlash and interest. And the cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history. Part of the problem before the Internet was that we didn't know which books to read. Someone had to tell you.

The thing about the Internet is the openness. People can link to each other themselves.

The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?

If it's on the Internet, then it's gotta be true.

The Internet shapes my life and work so completely that I couldn't imagine living without it.

Honestly, I'm more into the computer, the Internet, and checking out scores or the news.

I think the Internet is absolutely extraordinary. It's very, very useful and I think one of the things we've got to do is make sure that the African continent gets on to that information super highway.

On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.

I just think the Internet has made us ruder.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.

I operate under the theory that all publicity is good publicity, and then, if that theory doesn't work, you just say that any newspaper article ends up on the bottom of the parrot cage. But, of course, you can't line a parrot cage with Internet bloggers, can you?

It's such a thing now, people making fun of other people on the Internet.

I'm a bit of a Luddite and I hate the internet.