Quotes About Why The Internet Is Bad

#1. Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#2. A bad media creates a bad world and a good media makes the world good. The day all forms of media will stop functioning, we shall get a good understanding of the real meaning, value and impact of the media.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#3. Bad decisions make good stories.
--from an Internet list.

Ellis Vidler

#4. Doing good makes you great. Bad things take away from good ones. Practicing Netiquette is all good.

David Chiles

#5. When I was your age, we didn't have the Internet in our pants. We didn't even have the Internet not in our pants. That's how bad it was.

Dick Costolo

#6. Some of the hotels I've been put up in for work in Scotland have been shockingly bad. They're the type of hotel where the bedroom is like a cell and the Internet doesn't work. I feel quite aggrieved at that because you should at least be treated reasonably well and have basic comfort.

Robert Winston

#7. What the hell? Ian asked, holding his hands over the front of his Christmas briefs. Sara had ordered them from the Internet, and he'd worn them to please her. Too bad there hadn't been enough time for the underwear to meet with an unfortunate accident. A lot could be blamed on a washing machine.

Rose Wynters

#8. There are so many bootlegged Joy Division/Martin Hannett tapes, a lot of really bad bootlegs on the Internet.

Peter Hook

#9. Blame the economy, blame bad luck, blame my parents, blame your parents, blame the Internet, blame people who use the Internet.

Gillian Flynn

#10. I wake up every morning at, like, seven or eight because I think that there's a bad story about me, and I have to check. My worst fear is waking up and finding something bad about me on the Internet.

Kylie Jenner

#11. The whole, 'Is the Internet a good thing or a bad thing'? We're done with that. It's just a thing. How to maximise its civic value, its public good - that's the really big challenge.

Clay Shirky

#12. What I love about the Internet and what I try to do on the issues is insist upon the ability to have bad taste if one wants.

Andrew Sullivan

#13. These days, the phone only carries bad news. It's all "your student loan is past due" and "your uncle Chris is in the hospital." If it's anything fun or exciting, like an invitation to a party or a secret project in the works, it will come through the internet.

Robin Sloan

#14. It was common knowledge that big, bad city boys spent the bulk of their time sleeping around, coiffing their hair and posting pictures of food on the internet.

Gena Showalter

#15. The Internet is the aggregate of human derpitude.

Listening to the Internet without being confident you've found a well-curated garden relative to the area of concern is a bad idea.

Jeff Alexander

#16. I can feel so bad about myself, especially if I start to pay attention to the kinds of stupid comments around the Internet.

Charlotte McKinney

#17. We've seen other Internet people go to TV, and it's bad because they take two months off to make a pilot, and their viewers have forgotten about them when they come back.

Anthony Padilla

#18. Turn off your email; turn off your phone; disconnect from the Internet; figure out a way to set limits so you can concentrate when you need to, and disengage when you need to. Technology is a good servant but a bad master.

Gretchen Rubin

#19. In February 2000, hedge-fund manager James J. Cramer proclaimed that Internet-related companies "are the only ones worth owning right now." These "winners of the new world," as he called them, "are the only ones that are going higher consistently in good days and bad.

Benjamin Graham

#20. The USA Freedom Act expands that so now we have cell phones, now we have Internet phones, now we have the phones that terrorists are likely to use and the focus of law enforcement is on targeting the bad guys.

Ted Cruz

#21. It is commonly said that the Internet is unique in its ability to spread bad information to large numbers of people, but this is ridiculous, given that the Internet cannot begin to compete with CNN or the New York Times for this honour.

Philip E. Agre

#22. You think you had it bad when somebody put out a rumor on you in the school; think about somebody putting a rumor out about you on the Internet.

Nelly

#23. I think the Internet has real potential for building community. People all around the world talking to each other can't be a bad thing.

Greg Brown

#24. There are no bad haircuts in cyberspace.

Dave Barry

#25. What encryption lets us do is say, "Yes, the Internet is insecure." Bad guys are able to compromise computers everywhere, but we're able to tolerate that because if they do intercept our messages, they can't do any harm with it.

Matt Blaze

#26. The internet is just a scary place. It's better to just go to the doctor. Don't let Google get inside your head. It will do bad things to you.

Carrie Brownstein

#27. The Internet is brittle and fragile and too easy to take down. It's a conduit for criminal activity. We need international treaties to prosecute the bad guys, but we don't have them.

Vint Cerf

#28. The internet is bringing our collective conscious together by showing the good and bad in humanity. Good Netiquette is the outcome.

David Chiles

#29. Certainly it constitutes bad news when the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit.

Philip K. Dick

#30. Folks are wandering around that proverbial parking lot of the Internet all day long, without giving it a thought to whose attachments they're opening, what sites they're visiting. And that makes it easy for the bad guys.

James Comey