- Nov 07, 2020
Internet Quotes
A tool that connects and complicates in equal measure.
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- Riding
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think we should see the world of books as fundamentally separate from the world of the Internet. Yes, the Internet contains a lot of videos of squirrels riding skateboards, but it can also be a place that facilitates big conversations about books.
- Attention Spans
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We need to make books for short attention spans with bells and whistles - books, in short, that are as much like 'Angry Birds' as possible. But I think that's a terrible idea.
- Determining
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the U.N. were to be successful in its efforts to control the Internet, countries where human rights records range from questionable to criminal could be put in charge of determining what is and is not allowed to appear online.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States invented the Internet and it has been our gift to the world, paid for by our taxpayers. The U.N.'s desire to take that gift as a means of increasing its power must be stopped.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Turning the Internet over to the U.N. or some other phony international organization would be a disaster, and I am not willing to stand by and let it happen.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Internet mailing lists are like Fox television shows. They have really cool previews, and they get you all excited about them, but they just don't live up to their promises.
- Economic Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Green technologies - going green - is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet is a testament to a connected system that works - it's a global network where any computer can reach another, and easily transfer information across.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a country doesn't have a good economic infrastructure, that harms the country. With Stripe, the idea is that by providing better infrastructure, by linking the Internet economically, by making it easier for these online businesses to exist, it'll make the web better.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know the way trees break through the canopy in the rainforest and they go from having this tiny column of light to having all this light - the Internet is kind of like that.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as the Internet economy continues to grow, Stripe will continue to grow.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Technology has become such a big part of our humanity. We have the Internet on 24 hours a day, even when we're sleeping.
- Office
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- Nov 07, 2020
John Conyers' office has been very responsive to citizen concerns and the Internet has presented a way to communicate with them in a way that's never before been there.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020