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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
- Fragmentation
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were all going to help smaller companies thrive at the expense of the slow-moving giants of the Fortune 500, apparently you were wrong.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're learning a tremendous amount of propaganda from television and the Internet.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the Internet offers is this completely unfiltered transmission of thought to thought, of psyche to psyche, and whatever you're feeling, you can just sort of put it down and send it out there, and you can do it all in the confines of your room, without any actual contact.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at the first commercial transactions on the Internet, few of the early companies necessarily survived intact, but the ideas they invented became the industry.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the Internet exists at all in the future, it will be on a much-reduced scale from what we enjoy today, and all the activities of everyday life are not going to reside on it.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how much Bill Gates may claim otherwise, he missed the Internet, like a barreling freight train that he didn't hear or see coming.
- Fair Amount
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd say there was a fair amount of skepticism at the time about whether the Internet held any promise. And of course I felt that it did.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that the Internet is the information highway. I'm religious about this. I don't think it's cable television.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In general, I think people should be skeptical of the Internet as a reference tool because so much of what's on it is unreliable and costumed - a hall of mirrors.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social media has allowed groups, such as ISIL, to use the Internet to spot and assess potential recruits. With the widespread horizontal distribution of social media, terrorists can identify vulnerable individuals of all ages in the United States - spot, assess, recruit, and radicalize - either to travel or to conduct a homeland attack.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a film called 'A Lonely Place For Dying,' which is the most watched film on the Internet, over 3 million hits, more than any of Hollywood's films.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020