quotations about the Internet
Look at the walls of Pompeii. That's what got the internet started.
ROBIN WILLIAMS
The Guardian, September 20, 2010
The internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated.
PRINCE
The Guardian, November 26, 2014
In my head I'm still living and working as if there is no internet, and treat it as a nuisance.
JACK WHITE
The Guardian, November 26, 2014
The Internet is like a magic door that democratizes communication. It empowers you to reach almost anyone, anywhere, and offers you virtual space to represent your own interests.
NATALIE CANAVOR
Business Writing for Dummies
The net has provided a level playing field for criticism and comment -- anyone and everyone is entitled to their opinion -- and that is one of its greatest strengths.
SARA SHERIDAN
The Guardian, April 14, 2011
That's the beauty of the Web: You can roll around in a stranger's obsession without having to smell his or her house.
PENN JILLETTE
"Penn's Columns", Penn & Teller
The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that you and I believe, the almost equal access to your kids as your youth pastor and you have ... whether you like it or not.
JOSH MCDOWELL
"Apologist Josh McDowell: Internet the Greatest Threat to Christians", Christian Post, 2011
The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance. Now ... cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. And of course to hunt down sedition.
BEN ELTON
Blind Faith
There're so many ads on the Internet these days, they should call it the InfoMERCIAL Superhighway!
TOM WILSON
Ziggy, Nov. 5, 1999
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
ANDREW BROWN
attributed, Tweet This Book: The 1,400 Greatest Quotes of All Time in 140 Characters or Less
The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society. But if you look at the latest figures for internet use, things such as pornography and e-shopping overwhelm everything else.
NOAM CHOMSKY
"Peace netter", The Guardian, October 16, 2002
People like to swap stories, period, and the internet is like a big electronic campfire.
ANNE JAMISON
Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World
Twenty years ago no one could have imagined the effects the Internet would have: entire relationships flourish, friendships prosper ... there's a vast new intimacy and accidental poetry, not to mention the weirdest porn. The entire human experience seems to unveil itself like the surface of a new planet.
J. G. BALLARD
"Age of Unreason", The Guardian, June 22, 2004
My friend Daniel and I started checking out the Internet at our local library, where you had to take a class on how to use the Netscape browser before you were allowed to use it. Even though anyone under the age of thirty instantly knew exactly what to do within five seconds of looking at the browser, the librarian carefully explained the function of such buttons as Stop, Back, Forward, and Refresh while adults nodded their heads thoughtfully. We passed the class and got special endorsements on our library cards that allowed us to sign up for times to use the Internet-enabled computers. The sign-ups had to be done--brace yourself--by phone or with a pencil and paper at the actual library.
JOEL HENG HARTSE
Sects, Love, and Rock & Roll: My Life on Record
Information taken from the Internet is like fast food: it is quick, easy to appreciate, and convenient.
KARL BRIDGES
Expectations of Librarians in the 21st Century
Wishing away the Internet is like envisioning a world without electricity and indoor plumbing.
JAY JORDAN
Weaving Libraries Into the Web
Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.
BARRY DILLER
USA Today, Apr. 30, 2009
The Internet is like a vault with a screen door on the back. I don't need hammers and bombs to get in when I can walk in through the door.
WILLIAM R. CHESWICK
"Cracks in the Net", Time, February 27, 1995
Each time we dispatch an email in one way or another, we feel a sense of accomplishment, and our brain gets a dollop of reward hormones telling us we accomplished something. Each time we check a Twitter feed or Facebook update, we encounter something novel and feel more connected socially (in a kind of weird, impersonal cyber way) and get another dollop of reward hormones. But remember, it is the dumb, novelty-seeking portion of the brain driving the limbic system that induces this feeling of pleasure, not the planning, scheduling, higher-level thought centres in the prefrontal cortex. Make no mistake: email-, Facebook- and Twitter-checking constitute a neural addiction.
DANIEL J. LEVITIN
The Organized Mind
The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.
ERIC SCHMIDT
"Google Chief: My Fears for Generation Facebook", The Independent, August 17, 2010