- 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
- Nov 07, 2020
I stay off the Internet.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we really wanted to be cool, and everyone in the world had Pro Tools, we could just put it up on the internet and everyone could make their own record out of it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm actually really bad at the Internet. I'm never scouring it to find new artists or new anything.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone knows that the broadband era will breed a new generation of online services, but this is only half of the story. Like any innovation, broadband will inflict major changes on its environment. It will destroy, once and for all, the egalitarian vision of the Internet.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unsurprisingly, an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) - once a luxury for room-sized computer installations - is now a standard item both in home offices and all the networked tiers above, protecting servers and online service providers, Internet backbones, phone companies, and even cable TV networks.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet is a cauldron of anger every day, every year, election year or not, with unemployment at 10 percent or at two percent. It isn't exactly a good index of what's happening.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Running helped me learn how to deal with failure, and failure is a big part of the Internet business.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People just don't sit down and just watch TV at night. Between cellphones, television, video games, the Internet and instant messaging, people are just spending their time in different places.
- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet is amazing.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in my days as a children's book editor, my superiors caught on to the fact that teenagers were using the Internet to gossip about each other, and thought it might be nifty to develop a series of books about an anonymous high-school blogger who gossips about her classmates. The concept was passed on to me.
- Fiction Writers
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems like every few years a big name author will holler something about how evil, heinous, and morally wrong fan fiction and fan fiction writers are, and then the Internet gets all upset and shocked, and then the author is shocked that people could get so upset.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of things have changed since the days of Flickr. Facebook has concentrated the sociality of the Internet within its blue borders, like a Walmart siphoning off the mom-and-pop shops that formerly comprised the Internet's gathering places. Communication, in the age of mobile dominance, has become, of necessity, shorter and snack-sized.
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- Nov 07, 2020