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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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- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet is changing what entertainment and sports is. It's not just a few people authoring an experience for others. It's really growing out of what everybody does.
- Nov 07, 2020
Rumours are rumours. The Internet is going to report whatever they have to speculate on.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest part of our business has always been moving things, not paper. With the Internet, people in Mississippi can buy things from Macedonia, without regard to time or place or quantity.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My venture investing career has three phases, all roughly 6-8 years long. The first, at Euclid, was software to Internet. The second, at Flatiron, was Internet to bubble. And the third, at USV, has been web 2 to mobile. I have always used a new firm to denote a new investment phase for me. Throw away the old. Start with the new.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I study my competition for at least an hour a day. I get on the Internet, I look at what they doing, and then I look at ways to defeat them. I know their mixtapes track-by-track. I know some of their lyrics.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's huge access to information. If you need to learn something, you can go on the Internet and learn very quickly. You can reach across miles and miles to find companies that can assist you.
- Cheaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet had a core innovation that made it valuable: The ability to disseminate data over a distributed network in a way that was significantly cheaper than the prior methods.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as the Internet brought the cost of disseminating information down by an order of magnitude, bitcoin brings the cost of transferring ownership down by an order of magnitude.
- Efficiencies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bitcoin is valuable as a currency because of the economic efficiencies the bitcoin network is already creating as transactions flow over it. As with the Internet, more applications will flourish which will make the bitcoin network, and thus bitcoin as a currency, valuable.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the day, what's going to make bitcoin successful is more people making more interesting things, just like the beginning of the Internet.
- Miracle
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest miracle of the Internet is that it exists - the second greatest is that it persists.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet shows me how limited my interests are - there's everything out there and I'm still looking at what the weather's going to be like in Scotland.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't even know how people managed without the Internet years ago. Having to mail a cassette tape of your music to strangers over the course of months... I just can't imagine having to do that.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020