Modem Quotes

#1. The Internet, I'm trying to point out, is a kooks' paradise. Anybody with a keyboard and a modem can spread fear, loathing, and just plain asinine ideas among hundreds of thousands of people with the click of a button. Discouraging, but true.

David F. Emery

#2. With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I guess this changes everything.

Matt Drudge

#3. Once you used a computer with a broadband connection, you knew you would never be able go back to the old voiceband modem connection - even if it was free.

Henry Samueli

#4. I live on my books. on my writings, i live on my royalties: the percentage an author recieves on each sold copy. and i am proud of it. i am so even though such percentage is small or i should say irrelevant.

Oriana Fallaci

#5. How carelessly imperial power vivisected ancient civilizations. Palestine and Kashmir are imperial Britain's festering,
blood-drenched gifts to the modem world. Both are fault lines in the raging international conicts of today.

Arundhati Roy

#6. You know, it's not a given that there is an 'online' and 'offline' world out there. When you use the telephone, you don't say that I'm entering some 'telephono-sphere.' You don't say that, and there is no obvious need to say that when you are using a modem.

Evgeny Morozov

#7. And so the idea was, well maybe you can take an Atari video game machine, where people plug in a game cartridge, and plug in a modem, and tie that into a telephone, and essentially turn that game in the machine into an interactive terminal.

Steve Case

#8. In my childhood world, the sound of a modem dialing up to connect with another computer was the sound of freedom. I

Felicia Day

#9. I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.

A.S. Byatt

#10. A couple of buffoons were running for some state-senate seat just vacated by the incumbent's prison term. One accused the other of being "against the Internet" - a knockout punch in a world where whole hordes of humans think better sex is a faster modem.

Andrew Vachss

#11. It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.

William Gibson

#12. To set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century were the most famous in the world.

Marie-Antoine Careme

#13. The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

#14. Everything is relative. Is the Internet fast? Not for most people. Is it always on? Yes, for cable modem and DSL users but that represents a tiny percentage of users.

John Patrick

#15. But the Word of God should shape our perspective, not circumstances or current events. So,

David S. Steele

#16. Fame means when your computer modem is broken, the repair guy comes out to your house a little faster.

Sandra Bullock

#17. You would rather pay $50 a month for a cable modem than a free voiceband modem because of the attractiveness of that broadband connection.

Henry Samueli

#18. The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.

Barbara M. White

#19. Growing up, I just wore whatever fit. I was going through crazy growth spurts, so I could never really take my style too seriously.

Chandler Parsons

#20. I was always a thin kid; I was an athlete.

Artie Lange

#21. What, exactly, is the Internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a "modem" can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo.

Dave Barry

#22. Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modem times.

Benjamin Disraeli

#23. The MRI has a repertoire of noises that resemble, in no particular order: a game-show buzzer for a wrong answer, urgent knocking, a modem from 1992, a grizzly-bear growl, and a man with a raspy voice shouting what sounds like "mother cooler!

A. J. Jacobs

#24. I've wiped the file? ... I've wiped all the files? ... I've wiped the INTERNET? I don't even have a modem!

Eddie Izzard

#25. Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency.

Rudolf Arnheim

#26. All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.

C.L.R. James

#27. Polymer synthesis in the 1950s was dominated by Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta, whose discoveries of polymerization catalysts were of great importance for the development of the modem 'plastics' industry.

Alan J. Heeger

#28. The Noisiest buzz in the industry lately has been over the emerging use of cable TV systems to provide fast network data transmissions using a device called a cable modem. But the likelihood of this technology succeeding is zilch.

John C. Dvorak

#29. Dryware, wetware, hardware, software, blackware, darkware, nightware, nightmare . . . The modem sits inviting beside the phone, red eyes. I let it rest - you can't trust anybody these days.

Neil Gaiman

#30. If you walked into Netscape headquarters with a plain old modem from CompUSA they'd think it was a garage-door opener.

Walt Mossberg

#31. I first started using the internet back when a 14.4 modem was considered fast. I think I was about 11 or 12, and it fascinated me that you could look at all these different things on your computer.

Chris Kluwe

#32. We have judged God and found Him guilty of those things we do not understand.

James B. Richards

#33. Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can't eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know.

Dean Koontz

#34. What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing - or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax - that you can do on the public switched telephone network.

Vint Cerf

#35. The passions smothered by modem civilization are doubly ferocious when awakened,

Rex Stout