Quotes About The Internet

#1. Rome wasn't built in a day, and the internet is our new Rome

Kanye West

#2. The number of small businesses in the United States totals about 25 million. Because most of these have a local trading territory, relatively few advertise online. Online advertising reaches the masses of the Internet world, whether they are local or not.

Marc Ostrofsky

#3. Everything you need to know about a customer has been written by them or about them. And it lives on the Internet. All you have to do is uncover it. And use it.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#4. The internet creates chaos and a dangerous kind of piracy but makes the viewer much more active and gives the voice to minority players.

Agnieszka Holland

#5. [The Internet] is by far the most important innovation in the media in my lifetime. It's like having a huge encyclopedia permanently available. There's a tremendous amount of rubbish on the world wide web, but retrieval of what you want to so rapid that it doesn't really matter

Richard Dawkins

#6. The Internet is a powerful example of free speech and the free market in action; it is curious that the Net has alarmed the lawmakers of a nation founded on those principles.

Denise Caruso

#7. We are still in the very beggining of the Internet. Let's use it wisely.

Jimmy Wales

#8. The spirit of the Internet. This spirit is a powerful myth concocted by overzealous legal activists, and the sooner we bury it, the better.

Evgeny Morozov

#9. Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.

Eric S. Raymond

#10. I think Facebook is an extraordinarily important part of the Internet ecosystem, and having a robust presence there is a critical part of any brand (or company's) strategy.

John Battelle

#11. I don't think we should see the world of books as fundamentally separate from the world of the Internet. Yes, the Internet contains a lot of videos of squirrels riding skateboards, but it can also be a place that facilitates big conversations about books.

John Green

#12. I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.

Rainn Wilson

#13. Clearly, we're supposed to be together. If this were the internet, seventeen-year-old girls would be writing slash fiction about us as we speak.

Vaughn R. Demont

#14. There are no more heroes in America. Because of the Internet, heroism has become momentary and within seconds someone who we should be thinking about will be replaced in people's minds with news that Beyonce lip-synched at the inauguration.

Tommy Mottola

#15. There are ways you can find people to help you market your company on the Internet. If you have the right people helping you, you can get the word out. Newspaper and TV ads are expensive. If you can get the word out through social media, that's a big advantage.

Michael Franzese

#16. The Internet can give young people a fantastic platform to become financially independent and have global businesses without leaving Russia.

Dasha Zhukova

#17. I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website - but on the internet people only look at pictures of kittens

Banksy

#18. I don't really think about film or television or going directly to the internet. I just think about doing something that people are going to get excited about.

Joseph McGinty Nichol

#19. I do not think any SFWA communication should come anywhere NEAR the internet.

C.J. Cherryh

#20. There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.

Maisie Williams

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

Ken Jennings

#22. The one thing that's missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash, a method whereby on the Internet you can transfer funds from A to B, without A knowing B or B knowing A.

Milton Friedman

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

Paul Weller

#24. People spend hours constantly checking and tweeting and Facebooking. And it's cool to check up on your friends and see what's going on in the world, but it's not cool to spend five hours of your day on the computer looking at the Internet.

Ty Segall

#25. 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

#26. It simply is not true that everything is now on the Internet, but it is true that the digital resources available through the Internet have enormous potential for education and even for self-empowerment of individuals.

Robert Darnton

#27. Any 'network neutrality' rule should be designed to forbid phone or cable companies from controlling the Internet.

Marvin Ammori

#28. I don't sweat the Internet. You know, it's still something I enjoy as a movie geek myself to get on and, like, look at all the websites; however, when it comes to marketing a movie, the Internet is still not the thing that gets people to the theatre.

Michael De Luca

#29. I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say, 'News is news, what you're talking about is a change of consumption, not the product that's out there.' But I think there is a change.

Michael Connelly

#30. No matter how much programming improves, however, media savants tend to see the medium living out numbered days. It's feared that the Internet will do to TV what TV did to the movies in the 1950s. But instead of panicking, the networks are finding ways to co-opt the Web.

Tom Shales

#31. Before I started MakerBot, I was creating cool stuff and sharing it with the Internet. That's how I knew all the folks at BoingBoing, at Engadget and Gizmodo.

Bre Pettis

#32. I swear on everything holy I do not know what's on the Internet about me.

Iris Apfel

#33. Chaos is hard to create, even on the Internet. Here's an example. Go to Amazon. Buy a book without using SSL. Watch the total lack of chaos.

Bruce Schneier

#34. My wife and I had decided not to let anybody take pictures of our home because it was just the last place on earth we had that was unscathed. But people have climbed over the fence; they've taken aerial shots. They've gotten my address and put it on the Internet.

Steven Tyler

#35. US spend more on research and development than the other countries, so we shouldn't be making the internet a more hostile, a more aggressive territory.

Edward Snowden

#36. We live in an era where each of us has a massive catalog of film and television available through the internet at the swipe of a finger. To get folks out of their homes for a piece of art or entertainment, I think you need to offer something they can't get on Netflix or Amazon.

Nick Blaemire

#37. I think having a national system that tracks who owns guns is fine. I don't think we need to be printing it on the Internet.

Eric Swalwell

#38. The Internet is the quarry from which younger generations craft their own selves and then advertise a desired persona on Facebook.

Michael S. Horton

#39. The internet is completely over.

Prince

#40. I think that new communications are wonderful and I am delighted to be a part of the Internet generation.

Judy Collins

#41. The Internet in the 21st Century is as important to our future as highways were in the 20th Century. Like a highway, the Internet must remain free and open for all - not determined by the highest bidders.

Chuck Schumer

#42. The idea that you can somehow erase the Internet is silly.

Vint Cerf

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

Gilbert Gottfried

#44. If i write a book it will probably be a book about how not to use the internet or a book of poetry.

Misha Collins

#45. The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16 screens on the web page ... that's asking a lot of people.

Nancy Gibbs

#46. By giving unusual people an easy way to find one another, the Internet has also enabled them to pool rare talents, resources, and voices, then push their case into public consciousness. The response, in many cases, is a kind of hysteria.

Virginia Postrel

#47. While my cousins were gang-banging, I was trying to learn what the Internet was about.

Theophilus London

#48. The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing.

Gary Wright

#49. If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.

Nathan Fillion

#50. No matter how much Bill Gates may claim otherwise, he missed the Internet, like a barreling freight train that he didn't hear or see coming.

Jim Clark

#51. Even though the Internet touches every part of our lives, one person is to blame for potentially destroying its potential for innovation and freedom of expression: former FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski.

Marvin Ammori

#52. An important part of the Internet is that it provides a space for people whose identities are socially unacceptable. If it enables someone who feels minoritised to be who they want to be, it's actually worth having other people be offensive. I'd much rather have both than have neither.

Nick Harkaway

#53. People wouldn't go on Facebook unless they wanted to share with groups of people. But there is this perception that Facebook have been on a course to push people's information where it's visible across the Internet unless they do a bunch of stuff.

Walt Mossberg

#54. Only on the Internet can a person be lonely and popular at the same time.

Allison Burnett

#55. There are billions of dollars spent every year on traditional media. The majority of people are spending more time every day on the Internet, especially on mobile. You're starting to see a shift of that spend go to mobile, especially to things like 'Instagram'.

Kevin Systrom

#56. How did my parents live before texting? Before the internet? I'm used to knowing things and all of this unknowing is driving me mad.

Stephanie Perkins

#57. Cyber terrorism could also become more attractive as the real and virtual worlds become more closely coupled, with automobiles, appliances, and other devices attached to the Internet.

Dorothy Denning

#58. The Internet isn't just itself a revolution - it sometimes starts them, too.

Marvin Ammori

#59. I wouldn't even say the internet is a gift and a curse for hip-hop. All types of music are bootlegged, including movies which are bootlegged.

Nicki Minaj

#60. The internet in hotels should be free - and I really resent it when they charge you five dollars for a bottle of water beside your bed.

Francis Ford Coppola

#61. With the new medium of knowledge - the Internet - knowledge not only takes on properties of that medium but also lives at the level of the network.

David Weinberger

#62. The thing that the Internet does is it allows labor to move freely across borders in the way that capital does but, traditionally, labor cannot. So the Internet frees workers to be based anywhere and work for employers anywhere.

Leila Janah

#63. Obviously I read the newspaper sometimes, or I look on the Internet. When you go out in public, you hear things, and people ask you questions, and that's part of the game.

Johnathan Joseph

#64. I think we should not control the Internet.

Vladimir Putin

#65. The Internet is by the people, for the people.

Kim Dotcom

#66. The Internet will make every enterprise a publisher.

Steve Case

#67. If people want to see you, they'll find you. If they don't see you on TV, they'll find you on the Internet.

Jimmy Fallon

#68. Initially, the television was seen as the devil incarnate by people that worked in the content industry. Now over time it turned out that that was one of the best things that ever could have happened to a content creator. I think the Internet is no different.

Jason Kilar

#69. I think it's a bit silly to brand the Internet as the 'downfall of youth.'

Ernest Cline

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

Ben Huh

#71. Timing is everything. It is not so much about who you know, especially now with the Internet, because anybody can become a superstar overnight.

Frankie Knuckles

#72. The internet has a way of mainstreaming everything. Any artist, any musician, any sexual kink, any political view point, it's all there.

Arthur Jones

#73. If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch. Actually watching television and surfing the internet are really excellent practise for being dead.

Chuck Palahniuk

#74. I don't look on the Internet; it's a world of pain.

Max Irons

#75. He found it where he should have looked first, on the Internet, which is a net indeed, one that can be cast further than the eye can see and be retrieved no matter how heavy the hall, its magical mesh never breaking under the strain but always bringing in the most amazing catch.

Yann Martel

#76. I think in general in my teens I had a lot of crushes on men on the Internet, most notably Momus since I was in my late teens. John Darnielle was also another big crush.

Marie Calloway

#77. The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting.

Eric Schmidt

#78. On the Net, the bell curve reclaims its tails. The uncommon is as accessible as the common. The very fragmentation of the Internet allows us to find ourselves in other people - and to know that we are not alone.

Virginia Postrel

#79. Truly huge artistic collaboration on the Internet seems to work only if the gang has a well-defined objective.

Clive Thompson

#80. Maybe it's just a humanising thing to realise that a ton of people in bands that make really exciting music, are just big nerds. And you know, maybe the Internet's done a lot in just exposing that long-held secret.

Chris Baio

#81. It is proper Netiquette to contribute free resources to the internet, share.

David Chiles

#82. Simply put, the Internet undermines the ability of an institution to control its own narrative.

Jamais Cascio

#83. Somebody on the Internet thinks what you do is stupid or evil, or it's all been done before? Make good art.

Neil Gaiman

#84. Media was a battle ground. So was the internet. People began walking openly with their weapons, whether it was a gun or a camera. Drones were always skimming overhead, filming the violence of the second civil war of the United States.

Lindsay Anderson

#85. Apparently this was based on postings on the Internet, and I thought it all ridiculous, not quite sure who these Ripperologists were. I joked that their threat brought to mind Klingons in formation ready to fire upon the U.S.S. Enterprise.

Patricia Cornwell

#86. Public participation helped create the Internet, and it helps protect it. That's worth celebrating and remembering.

Marvin Ammori

#87. will scour the Internet nightly for mentions of any keywords you

Scott Fox

#88. Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging an armored car to deliver credit card information from someone living in a cardboard box to someone living on a park bench.

Gene Spafford

#89. We live in the world of images, but we also live in the world of the Internet, of zapping and where people move. You can make little videos on your phone. I love very composed images, but the idea of moving pictures with a story, with a plot is quite interesting, too.

Karl Lagerfeld

#90. I didn't visit art galleries growing up. I didn't know anything about it. But at 17 I made the decision to leave home and explore. I've been using the Internet since I was 13, so I could see there was this whole world out there.

Kesh

#91. You're telling me that because of the Internet, and the availability of every experience, every whim, every tool, sudden everyone's an artist? But here's the thing: if everyone's an artist, then no one is.

Meg Wolitzer

#92. I believe that the internet as an open platform for distribution could be a great chance for the diversity of film production.

Agnieszka Holland

#93. When I hear people express extreme optimism about the Internet, I say, we've had it in mature form for about ten years. Macroeconomically speaking, those are about the worst 10 years we've had since about the 1930s. I don't blame the Internet for that - that would be ridiculous.

Tyler Cowen

#94. We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over the Internet.

Vint Cerf

#95. This is an important part of the Internet Dynamic - providing opportunity and not guarantees.

Bob Frankston

#96. It used to be that in comedy you had to play the clubs and work your way up, but now, before you do the clubs, you can put something up on the Internet. It's public access times a million.

Trevor Moore

#97. What's that? My six song album entitled Bo Fo Sho is currently available on iTunes? With three songs that have never been heard on the internet? Uh, and if I try to pirate it for free I'll get AIDS? I would have guessed scurvy. Well, see you later ghost of Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.

Bo Burnham

#98. I had just got back from skiing, and I was just hanging out, browsing the Internet, and I found some article that was a press release that said slope style was gonna be included in the Olympics. And the first thing I did was call up my coach Mike Hanley, and we were ecstatic.

Nick Goepper

#99. I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'

Mike Godwin

#100. Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind.

Terence McKenna