The Internet Quotes

Like most technology, the internet has mixed effects. It's a neutral instrument.

[Internet] is kind of like a hammer. The technology itself doesn't determine how its used. It depends on the social, cultural and economic context in which the technology is made available.

I'm glad to see the casual game play coming back now on the Internet, games that aren't violent, that aren't complex that you can sit down and you can have some fun.

My Internet friends who I play games with say, 'This guy's a fighter?' I'm the last person they expect to be a fighter.

I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered.

Stupid Internet. I don't know why everyone is so impressed with it.

The internet has created a transnational audience. If you publish something in the New York Times, it's read all over the world. Who knows how big this audience is or how long it will last.

Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft.

Most Americans want a sense of privacy. A lot of us don't realize how much of our privacy we're exposing by the internet.

Unlike the phone system, the Internet has no Ma Bell or FCC to mandate new policies for the entire system. Not even Microsoft can make us all upgrade our routers. I think.

At one level it's clear that the dam has broken. There's an inevitable move to use the Internet as a distribution medium and that's not going to stop.

Everyone connected to the internet acts globally. it is wildly foolish to think locally.

It's a global fashion thing; because of the Internet it has gotten really small. It's cluttered, but it's gotten small.

The Internet is a strange, strange place that is full of lies. I would say mostly lies.

As a writer I have to find platforms that can use this writing process. The internet is one of them.

I should say here, because some in Washington like to dream up ways to control the Internet, that we don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.

If it doesn't come through the Internet, it's not really compelling to me.

We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the tools they need to protect them.

Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.

It's precisely on the Internet that the majority of the writing is terribly bad and uninteresting.

The Internet right now is another way to get exposure. You depend on that because they give you press, and if it's successful it gets into a lot of festivals.

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

Now, with the Internet, you're either five years ahead or you're five years behind, and the music game is catchin' up right now.

I think as far as the music industry is concerned, it's kind of been the wild, wild West in a way with the Internet, which is not necessarily a bad thing to me.

At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet.

I do not buy CDs any more; I usually stream Internet radio. For movies, I hardly every buy any DVDS. I have a DVR, so just record things off HBO, Showtime and so on.

Now I have something. In fact, I have posted on the Internet more than Obama has. My birth certificate actually has signatures.

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

I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.

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.

Excuse me? You're a lady?" "I bought a title on the Internet. I own one square inch of Scotland. And you're changing the subject.

You have to organize, organize, organize, and build and build, and train and train, so that there is a permanent, vibrant structure of which people can be part.

Fake news is a product of the internet that is not transparent. Fake news can spread online because as users we have no idea where any of the content we see comes from.

I think the governments need to encourage internet companies and convince them that they can be extremely profitable without necessarily spiraling out of control. Without becoming monopolist.

The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.

You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.

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.

We have to start thinking of ourselves as citizens of the Internet, not just passive users. I don’t see how we can bring about change in our digital lives if we don’t take responsibility.

We’re at a point in history that whether the Internet is going to evolve in a way that’s compatible with democracy and human rights is really kind of up in the air.

What's got me excited about the education space is the growth of the Internet over the next 10, 20, 30 years.

Something will eventually replace the Internet. But it's hard to know what and when it will happen.

We can literally unplug a country from the Internet. We ought to think about unplugging them.

The great thing about the Internet is that it will not abide by the rules.

I have been involved in Internet-related policy for approximately one decade, and I have been using the Internet myself for almost that period of time.

I looked back, but Bast and Sadie seemed fine. They were still staring at the water as if it were some amazing Internet video.

I just think the Internet has made us ruder.

I think any apparent contradiction in scripture is my limited capacity. Me trying to understand God is like an ant trying to understand the Internet. I don't have the brain capacity.

The key is really just saying my brain isn't big enough to figure out why everything happens. It would be like an ant trying to understand the internet.

Notional is a production company with the DNA of an Internet company that makes content for everything.

I look at myself and read what people say on the internet and some fans say the club should get rid of me - which shows how fickle some people can be.