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- 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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difference between Spotify and Internet radio services like Pandora is that Spotify is interactive. You can sample the complete catalogue of most artists' recordings.
- Gambling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws.
- Nov 07, 2020
Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; it's a privately owned space on the Internet.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fanboys are a creator's blessing and curse. If a fanboy likes you, they love you. Obsessively. If you cross them with some plot point or story direction they reject, expect to be wholly and continually eviscerated across the Internet.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can do a short film in three to four days, and then you can show it. Look at the careers you seen go either through Tropfest or outside of Tropfest. You can make a short film in a couple of days, and if it's great, it can go in the Internet or go to a film festival like this one or another.
- Differentiated
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any small business that's predicated on technological innovation and is differentiated and superior can expand globally very effectively using the Internet as a vehicle for promotion.
- Individual
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet amplifies power in all respects. It can grossly exaggerate the power of the individual.
- Digestive
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet may well disempower the nation state, but at the same time, it also strengthens certain specific state functions - like surveillance. As a political entity, it doesn't empower the nation sate. It creates the availability of much more data than the digestive system of the nation state could possibly assimilate.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet is the most liberating tool for humanity ever invented, and also the best for surveillance. It's not one or the other. It's both.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything is relative. Is the Internet fast? Not for most people. Is it always on? Yes, for cable modem and DSL users but that represents a tiny percentage of users.
- Catalogs
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back then, before the Internet, you had these paper catalogs that you ordered all the food from. So, we flipped through the catalogs, looked up the food we wanted, called them up, and they would show up in trucks.
- Government Officials
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- Nov 07, 2020
Through a blog, an ordinary citizen such as myself can use the Internet, this thing invented by Albert Gore, to talk from my house to the U.S. capital and to make use of my right to point out to government officials and to the media when they are wrong.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020