The Victorian Internet Quotes

#1. 'The Victorian Internet' is a must read for anyone interested in the history of technology and in the cycles of hype, boom, and bust that seem to only quicken with each new wave of innovation. Highly recommended.

John Battelle

#2. I joined an Internet community of Victorian scholars, which meant that if I posted a question about 1875's lavender harvest, more than a thousand experts would ponder it.

Michel Faber

#3. I need to put bread on the table man

Latrell Sprewell

#4. If you have to shout to prove your point, you're probably wrong.

Aleksandra Ninkovic

#5. I'm pretty excited about the state of TV these days. There's great opportunity for really complicated relationships, in a way that I don't really see as much in movies anymore.

Paula Malcomson

#6. I think hypochondria always plays a part in the healthcare landscape.

Carrie Brownstein

#7. Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

Erik H. Erikson

#8. It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

Epictetus

#9. If something is important enough, you'll find a way to get it done. If not, you'll find an excuse.

Austin Dewart

#10. Uncertain whose the narrowest span,
the clown unread, or half-read gentleman.

John Dryden

#11. How clear the realization one is going mad
the mind has a silence, nothing happens in the physique, urine gathers in your loins, your ribs contract.

Jack Kerouac

#12. Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

T. S. Eliot

#13. the wildflowers said what burial.

Gwen Calvo

#14. A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.

William Stafford

#15. Sometimes love was not about winning, but about wise sacrifice and the realiability of friends like Arianne. Friendship, Roland realized, was its very own kind of love.

Lauren Kate

#16. Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser.

Toba Beta

#17. Love possesses seven hundred wings, and each one extends from the highest heaven to the lowest earth.

Rumi