Story Web Quotes

#1. The story of the Web starts in 1980, when Berners-Lee, a young consulting physicist at the CERN physics laboratory near Geneva, grew frustrated with existing methods for finding and transferring information.

Katie Hafner

#2. I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.

Wally Schirra

#3. We want to open digg up to just about anyone and everyone that wants to express their interest in any type of news story or Web content.

Kevin Rose

#4. When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll remember how safe you felt, tucked under the covers, or curled in someone's arms, as a story was spun around you like a web.

Jodi Picoult

#5. 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

#6. Advertisers don't want to put their ads next to the investigative story; it's extremely difficult to do that. And very few people today actually read those serious news stories on the Web now.

Pierre Omidyar

#7. To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.

Henning Mankell

#8. The story of the growth of the World Wide Web can be measured by the number of Web pages that are published and the number of links between pages. The Web's ability to allow people to forge links is why we refer to it as an abstract information space, rather than simply a network.

Tim Berners-Lee

#9. To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.

Alan Kay

#10. Whether or not our prayer is heard depends not on the number of our words, but on the fervor of our souls.

Saint John Chrysostom

#11. The difference between graphic novels and web comics is even greater than graphic novels and story boarding. Web comics really is a legitimately separate genre.

Doug TenNapel

#12. Each time I discovered a potential link between one character's story and another's, several more connections would reveal themselves, like a beautiful, complex web spinning itself.

Richard Scarsbrook

#13. The living Web unfolds in time, and as we see each daily revelation we experience its growth as a story.

Mark Bernstein

#14. What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life.

Dashiell Hammett

#15. It was a worrying trend. Everybody else was deep into their own stories, and all the stories were woven together just beneath the surface into a web that included Plum. But what was Plum's story?

Lev Grossman

#16. When you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful, and polite, you have hard time reminding yourself that nothing he says is true/sincere.

Milan Kundera

#17. The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#18. Life was more difficult in Inkheart, yet it seemed to Meggie that with every new day Fenoglio's story was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful..

Cornelia Funke

#19. Obviously, everybody's favorite form of web content is more story with principal actors. But the economics of the web do not yet support.

Matt Nix

#20. Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night.

Carl Sandburg

#21. The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.

George Mason

#22. A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child.

Katherine Anne Porter

#23. My soul is too glad and too great to be at heart the enemy of any man

Martin Luther King Jr.

#24. For thou hast made a very fiend of me, and I have hell within.

Aphra Behn

#25. Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.

Benjamin Britten

#26. Life is in balance. The swings in the mind are there to give you the experience, and to let you discover the you within you ... That balance and swing lets your standard be tested. You cannot hold to something external. You must find your own depth and test it, confirm it ...

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#27. Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.

Tammy Wynette

#28. My family was very Halloween-friendly, for all of the religion and whatever was going on.

Bill Moseley

#29. Think about it; the quicktank is given a job most of us would laugh out of town. Build a sophisticated camera capable of full 3-D input and peripheral pickup, using only water and jelly.
Build an eye.

Warren Ellis

#30. 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

#31. Everything is about them now." "One day they will be grown and leave home and you will just be a source of embarrassment or exasperation for them and they won't take your phone calls or won't call you for weeks,

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie