Quotes About Web 2.0

#1. I'm interested in helping secure the PC - we need innovation here. It's not just hug your PC, hate the iPhone. In fact I don't even hate the iPhone; I think it's really cool. I just don't want it to be the center of the ecosystem along with the Web 2.0 apps.

Jonathan Zittrain

#2. Before I started Code for America, I spent my career around startups. First it was game developers, small teams trying to make hits in a tough business. Then, when I started working on the Web 2.0 events, it was web startups during times of enormous opportunity and investment.

Jennifer Pahlka

#3. What Google did in Web 1.0 was take a feature, which was search, and built an entire business around that utility. In Web 2.0, Twitter took a feature, which is sharing, and built a utility that allowed people to do that on a massive scale.

Peter Fenton

#4. Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.

Jaron Lanier

#5. The Web is going to capture an increasing share of people's attention, and billions of dollars are going to flow in. What Web 2.0 is about is harnessing those dollars in highly leverageable ways.

Fred Wilson

#6. The Web 2.0 world is defined by new ways of understanding ourselves, of creating value in our culture, of running companies, and of working together.

John Battelle

#7. The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena.

Jaron Lanier

#8. Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.

Tim O'Reilly

#9. Mobile will probably disrupt much of what we know of web 2.0.

Keith Teare

#10. We are seeing the beginning of things. Web 2.0 is broadband. Web 3.0 is 10 gigabits a second.

Reed Hastings

#11. The poster child of Web 2.0 is Flickr. Personalization is a key piece of Web 2.0.

Jared Spool

#12. Incantations for Muggles:
The Role of Ubiquitous Web 2.0 Technologies in Everyday Life

Danah Boyd

#13. There's this large trend - I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 - which is to have users really express, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity.

John Doerr

#14. Web 1.0 was making the Internet for people, Web 2.0 is making the Internet better for companies.

Jeff Bezos

#15. Since the founding of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other mainstays of what technology writers have come to call 'the social Web' or 'Web 2.0,' a sizable portion of humanity has learned to be together while apart, sacrificing intimacy for control and spontaneity for predictability.

Walter Kirn

#16. I use a lot of the Web 2.0 apps that I've seen out there, and I think there is incredible work going on there.

Phil Schiller

#17. It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.

Kara Swisher

#18. The wisdom of the crowds has peaked. Web 3.0 is taking what we've built in Web 2.0 - the wisdom of the crowds - and putting an editorial layer on it of truly talented, compensated people to make the product more trusted and refined.

Jason Calacanis

#19. You have Google, we have Baidu. You have Twitter, we have Weibo. You have Facebook, we have Renren. You have YouTube, we have Youku and Tudou. The Chinese government blocked every single international Web 2.0 service, and we Chinese copycat every one.

Michael Anti

#20. Today's marketing success comes from self-publishing web content that people want to share. It's not about gimmicks. It's not about paying an agency to interrupt others.

David Meerman Scott

#21. Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn't like it, it is it.

Douglas Adams

#22. I'm involved in too many things. I have a Web site I'm working on.

Charles Manson

#23. We at The Web Standards Project turned everything on its head. We said browsers should support the same standards instead of competing to invent new tags and scripting languages. We said designers, developers, and content folks should create one site that was accessible to everyone.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#24. I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values.

Ella Maillart

#25. Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited.

Robert Kennedy

#26. A lot of web companies will take a short-term approach and sell to an incumbent and don't end up living up to their full potential.

Jonah Peretti

#27. Citizens are starting not to excuse political candidates who have web sites that do nothing but throw virtual confetti.

David Weinberger

#28. I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print.

Tina Brown

#29. We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal.

Tim Berners-Lee

#30. Everything that surrounds us becomes part of us, it seeps into us with every experience of the flesh and of life and, like the web of a great Spider, binds us subtly to what is near, ensnares us in a fragile cradle of slow death, where we lie rocking in the wind.

Fernando Pessoa

#31. It's all about story and character with me, and I don't care if the job is on daytime or prime time or the web. Hey, give me a good character and someone to listen, and I'll do my acting on a street corner.

Justin Hartley

#32. I've always liked the fact that anyone with a great idea, access to the Internet, and an unrelenting will can spark a world-beating company simply by standing up code on the Internet and/or leveraging the information and relationship network that is the web. That's how Facebook started, after all.

John Battelle

#33. At the height of the first great dot-com boom, Craig Kanarick, then in his early 30s, was running Razorfish, a Web design firm he'd co-founded with an old friend, which at its peak had 2,300 employees in nine countries.

David Sax

#34. More and more, job listings are exclusively available online and as technology evolves nearly every occupation now requires a basic level of digital literacy with web navigation, email access and participation in social media.

Michael K. Powell

#35. Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy.

Clement Mok

#36. ...I understood that even as we are caught in a web of hurt and brokenness, we're also in a web of healing and mercy.

Bryan Stevenson

#37. In many ways semantic search takes us back to the golden days of the Web when in terms of working online anything was possible as long as you had passion, belief in yourself, and energy to work at it.

David Amerland

#38. I have a huge underground following on the web.

John McAfee

#39. They've got the singles and some people have burnt them from different web sites and stuff. So it was something that we talked about for a long, long time, and I just wanted to make sure that this remix album to be really special.

Deborah Cox

#40. The Web makes people hypocritical, it encourages to take pseudonymes

Jean-Louis Murat

#41. If that thy fame with ev'ry toy be pos'd, 'Tis a thin web, which poysonous fancies make; But the great souldier's honour was compos'd Of thicker stuf, which would endure a shake. Wisdom picks friends; civility plays the rest; A toy shunn'd cleanly passeth with the best.

George Herbert

#42. The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers.

Stanley Kunitz

#43. If forensic analysts confiscated your calendar and e-mail records and Web browsing history for the past six months, what would they conclude are your core priorities?

Chip Heath

#44. I am being stalked across the Web. And why is this happening? Pretty simple: It's huge business.

Gary Kovacs

#45. Saying Dating web sites don't work
is like saying my keyboard types wrong
as it is written seek and yee shall find

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#46. Generation Y is the first generation to spend more time on the Net than watching TV, with 10.6 hours per week watching TV and 12.2 hours surfing the Web.

Paul Greenberg

#47. *clicks page 2 of google search results* the deep web

Unknown

#48. I ordered a Kindle 2 from Amazon. How could I not? There were banner ads for it all over the Web. Whenever I went to the Amazon Web site, I was urged to buy one.

Nicholson Baker

#49. We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we the children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos.

Colin Meloy

#50. The web is not going to change the world, certainly not in the next 10 years. It's going to augment the world. And once you're in this web-augmented space, you're going to see that democratization takes place.

Steve Jobs

#51. The codebase turned out to be almost 3 times the size of the web version, with most of the code being new. While building the app, I found many ways to improve and streamline the code and the interface.

Anonymous

#52. There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred..

Nat Hentoff

#53. A Web site is the only medium of semipermanent communication where you can express yourself.

David Rusenko

#54. The idea of having no responsibilities except general edification seems like such a luxury now. When I had it, all I wanted to do was hack around on the Web. Now the vast majority of my hours are hacking around on the Web.

Matt Mullenweg

#55. I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.

Barry Humphries

#56. The Web or card experience is not at all going to replicate the book experience, nor is the book experience going to replicate the Web.

Rick Riordan

#57. The tethering of words to reality helps allay the worry that language ensnares us in a self-contained web of symbols.

Steven Pinker

#58. That's the power behind a tool like Facebook Connect. It is making a Web without walls. Facebook allows you to go to other sites to comment, rate, etc., without having to set up a new profile for that site.

Erik Qualman

#59. I understood then why people were so often defeated by this world. Perhaps the web of support that they required just did not come into alignment when it had to. Or perhaps our culture lacked the channels by which to offer this support.

Guy Mankowski

#60. I can do web, comic books, macrame, art.

Joss Whedon

#61. Really successful designs can be created without software produced "special effects." Identities do not NEED bevels, gradations, 3-D imagery, Web 2.Oh-Oh and other oh so "special" treatments to be great design solutions for clients.

Jeff Fisher

#62. It was an American who said that while a Frenchman's truth was akin to a straight line, a Welshman's truth was more in the nature of a curve, and it is a fact that Welsh affairs are entangled always in parabola, double-meaning and implication. This makes for a web-like interest ...

Jan Morris

#63. The mobile Web, location-based services, inexpensive and pervasive mobile apps, and new sorts of opportunities to access cars, bikes, tools, talent, and more from our neighbors and colleagues will propel peer-to-peer access services into market.

Lisa Gansky

#64. That's the great thing about incubating something on the web: you have the potential to go to other platforms. Every single platform has a different audience that you find.

Felicia Day

#65. We want people doing white hat search engine optimization (or even no search engine optimization at all) to be free to focus on creating amazing, compelling web sites. As always, we'll keep our ears open for feedback on ways to iterate and improve our ranking algorithms toward that goal.

Matt Cutts

#66. Thread of Selfishness in Web of Life. - Deuteronomy contains much instruction regarding what the law is to us, and the relation we shall sustain to God as we reverence and obey

Ellen G. White

#67. The Web is a vast collection of completely uncontrolled heterogeneous documents.

Larry Page

#68. For many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond this point of contact. We have lost a sense of respect for the wild river, for the complex workings of a wetland, for the intricate web of life that water supports.

Sandra Postel

#69. Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.

Sam Altman

#70. The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.

Narendra Modi

#71. Unfortunately, nigh the whole world is now duped into thinking that silly fill-in forms on web pages is the way to do user interfaces.

Erik Naggum

#72. It's possible to live without the Web. It's not possible to live without water. But if you've got water, then the difference between somebody who is connected to the Web and is part of the information society, and someone who (is not) is growing bigger and bigger.

Tim Berners-Lee

#73. Fate can save you and it can kill you. Either way, fate binds us through an invisible web of circumstances. Change one undesirable fate and another desirable fate is canceled out.

Cassia Leo

#74. Amy Rapp, my producing partner, and I are drawn to character-driven material. We're developing and producing movies and TV, fiction and non-fiction, studio and independent, broadcast and cable, theatre, and web so our slate is really diverse.

Meredith Vieira

#75. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it.

Louise Bourgeois

#76. On more than one occasion David, in his urge to explore the darker corners of the bookshelves, had found himself wearing strands of spider silk in his face and hair, causing the web's creator to scuttle into a corner and crouch balefully, lost in thoughts of arachnoid revenge.

John Connolly

#77. It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. That's why writing on the Internet has become a life-saver for me. My ability to think and write have not been affected. And on the Web, my real voice finds expression.

Roger Ebert

#78. The history of the Web so far says that we are highly motivated to come up with ways to make sense of a world richer and more interesting than the constrained resources of the traditional media let on.

Andrew Keen