Internet Slow Quotes

#1. I think it's more fun to play a hero with an edge.

Shawn Ashmore

#2. We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step.

Kofi Annan

#3. Before you marry a person you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.

Will Ferrell

#4. The big corporations are suddenly taking notice of the web, and their reactions have been slow. Even the computer industry failed to see the importance of the Internet, but that's not saying much. Let's face it, the computer industry failed to see that the century would end.

Douglas Adams

#5. I love computers. I love writing on them. I love gadgetry. The thing is: I am a slow reader. So, if I am going to get my work done, I read, like, a newspaper and that's it. If I got into websites and the internet, I wouldn't get any work done.

Stephen Sondheim

#6. Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#7. Yes, I do. The ones who aren't growing and evolving, who are standing still. They're the ones who rarely got better.' 'Yes, that was it,' said Gamache. 'They waited for life to happen to them. They waited for someone to save them. Or heal them. They did nothing for themselves.' 'Ben,' said Peter.

Louise Penny

#8. I would love to blog daily but I have not been making time for it because my internet is very slow. Everyone should make time for writing.

Jason Mraz

#9. If you have any doubt that time is relative, try stretching fifteen minutes' worth of input of over four hours cubicle-cell time with an ultra-slow internet connection and frequent visits from supervisors.

Rob Payne

#10. A rule against paid fast lanes would encourage additional capacity; a rule permitting paid fast lanes would simply encourage cable companies to create congested slow lanes on the Internet so they could make money by selling fast lanes to big companies.

Marvin Ammori

#11. Ronan and Gansey were laughing, he thought, at a joke where the rest of the world was the punch line.

Maggie Stiefvater

#12. I also love Mole, the unsung hero of reality programming.

Kathy Griffin

#13. Back then, the entire Internet consisted of two slow, boxcar-sized UNIVAC computers about 50 feet apart, connected by a wire. It would take one of these computers an entire day to send an email to the other one, which would immediately delete it, because it was a Viagra ad.

Dave Barry

#14. And for far too long, the Democrats have had a monopoly on black votes in this country.

Alphonso Jackson

#15. Berners-Lee was supremely lucky in the work environment he had settled into, the Swiss particle physics lab CERN. It took him ten years to nurture his slow hunch about a hypertext information platform.

Steven Johnson

#16. Okay, Kylie had put her foot in her mouth before, but she'd never had it in there so deep she felt her toes wiggling against her tonsils.

C.C. Hunter

#17. The Internet is fast, while humans are slow; capacious,
while humans are forgetful.

Michael Chorost

#18. Worry is a form of fear.

Bertrand Russell

#19. I damaged my Achilles tendon, so I can't run.

Jason Isaacs

#20. A lot has changed for Germany since 2010. Back then it was not certain that I would be the number one. Now I'm glad about the responsibility I take for the team.

Manuel Neuer

#21. Trends in circulation and advertising - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and unresponsive; the advent of Craigslist, which is wiping out classified advertising-have created a palpable sense of doom.

Eric Alterman

#22. Hermes has threatened me with slow mail. lousy Internet service and a horrible stock market if i publish this story. I hope he is just bluffing.

Rick Riordan

#23. If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were all going to help smaller companies thrive at the expense of the slow-moving giants of the Fortune 500, apparently you were wrong.

James Surowiecki

#24. A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.

Maria Montessori