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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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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading the text of my blog itself is not really the interesting part. The exciting part is how the Internet allows me to be the eyes and ears for the people sending me postings from Africa.
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The Internet has become a bunch of interlinked but linguistically distinct and culturally specific spaces. There's some interface between them, but there's a lot less than there was years back when we were sort of pretending that this was one great global space.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.
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The Internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be.
- India
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the Internet, information from Indiana and India is equally cheap and easy to access.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reddit, which calls itself 'The Front Page of the Internet,' is more influential in shaping Internet culture than its comparatively small reach would lead you to believe.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't watch TV, I don't spend time on the Internet, and I don't party much. I don't text very much, either.
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I was standing on the shoulders of other science fiction writers like William Gibson, who had written 'Neuromancer' on a typewriter before home computers even really existed, and Neal Stephenson who wrote 'Snow Crash' in the early '90s and imagined an online virtual world before the birth of the modern Internet.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can limit the number of invitations to an in-person fashion show, but you can't police the Internet.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started doing work on how the Internet is affecting commerce, like a lot of people, I was really excited by this nearly perfect market.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the virtual choir has taught me that, if anything, the Internet builds these post-national tribes, people finding each other anyway they can.
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I happen to be one of the people who believe that the Internet is a force of good, and I'm very optimistic about it.
- Accordance
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- Nov 07, 2020
A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet.
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- Nov 07, 2020