- Nov 07, 2020
Internet Quotes
A tool that connects and complicates in equal measure.
One line questions whether encryption is really the internet's biggest problem, given how many strangers it connects who aren't actually friends. For related tech reflections, see our Computer quotes.
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- Give
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- Nov 07, 2020
There will be 50 billion devices, modules, sensors connected to the Internet by 2025, and that will give opportunities.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the Internet has been called a great democratizer, perhaps what social media has done is let anyone enter the beauty pageant. Teens can cover up pimples, whiten teeth, and even airbrush with the swipe of a finger, curating their own image to become prettier, thinner, and hotter.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet has transformed the landscape of children's social lives, moving cliques from lunchrooms and lockers to live chats and online bulletin boards and intensifying their reach and power.
- Gray
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet foments outrageous behavior in part because it is a 'gray area' for social interactions.
- Disconnected
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- Nov 07, 2020
Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do that mostly because I believe that the fantasy business is in terrible trouble right now, for several reasons, not the least of which being the almost Democrat vs. Republican mentality of readers on the Internet.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload.
- Nov 07, 2020
The internet's completely over.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from the Internet.
- Mysterious
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the early 2000s stood for this vast, magical, electronic cyber realm - a time when the internet was so infinite, mysterious, and under-explored.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020