Internet Quotes

Don't believe everything you read on the Internet.

~ Abraham Lincoln

To be able to influence Tanzanian literature and African literature, and sell our books in Tanzania as well as in our continent, we need to be committed to what we do. And what we do is writing. Write as much as you can. Read as much as you can. Use the library and the internet carefully for research and talk to people, about things that matter. To make a living from writing, and make people read again in Tanzania and Africa; we must write very well, very good stories.

~ Enock Maregesi

Ability to find the answers is more important than ability to know the answers.

~ Amit Kalantri

It is a way now, approximately, of being at home. The forum has become one of the most consistent places of her life, like a familiar cafe that exists someone outside geography and beyond time zones. There are perhaps twenty regular posters on F:F:F:, and some muchlarger and uncounted number of lurkers. And right now there are three people in Chat. But there's no way of knowing exactly who until you are in there, and the chat room she finds not so comforting. It's strange even with friends, like sitting in a pitch-dark cellar conversing with people at a distance of about fifteen feet. the hectic speed, and the brevity of the lines in the thread, plus the feeling that everyone is talking at once, at counmter-purposes, deter her.

~ William Gibson

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

~ Mitchell Kapor

It is not necessary to be an 'Intelligent', It's wise to have the 'Internet

~ Sumit Kumar Mallik

The internet: always proving that you're not quite as special as you suspected.

~ Robin Sloan

Cats have been all over the Internet for many years. This makes total sense, as they seem to spend half their lives trying to stand and sit on the keyboards of our laptops.

~ Tom Cox

Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that he could trace his ancestry back up a long line of slightly less highly evolved stupendous badasses to that first self-replicating gizmo---which, given the number and variety of its descendants, might justifiably be described as the most stupendous badass of all time. Everyone and everything that wasn't a stupendous badass was dead.

~ Neal Stephenson

The Net’s interactivity gives us powerful new tools for finding information, expressing ourselves, and conversing with others. It also turns us into lab rats constantly pressing levers to get tiny pellets of social or intellectual nourishment.

~ Nicholas Carr

What the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. Whether I’m online or not, my mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.

~ Nicholas Carr

Quinns always come at half price, about half the time, and half-naked, even during the colder half of winter. A Quinn is like a queen, but draggier, and cheaper to buy and use for personal gain, unless you’re suspicious that you’re poor and illiterate like Jarod Kintz, in which case Quinns could be the spirits of your dead relatives, come to haunt you until you gather a massive fortune through selling books on the internet, to send some back in time through a portal you bought from the NSA, so they would have lived better lives without having to move a finger for their fortune. Oh, yah, and since they aren’t - they’re blue, like smurfs, yet they turn purple whenever tickled on the belly, which is something they seem to rather dislike, since they start biting and scratching when it happens, for no good reason, I might add.

~ Will Advise

The internet has become a political space. I think that is one of the most important developments in the past decade.

~ Julian Assange

With the consumer Internet, if you're not embarrassed by your first product release, you've launched too late. Everyone wants their product to be shiny, great, and revolutionary, so they take too long in the development cycle to build this really shiny thing, when in fact time really matters.

~ Reid Hoffman

Now young people have the Internet and a zillion phone apps so you don’t need an actual place to congregate. You can be everywhere, nowhere, a floating message-spewing entity. We used to rely on drugs to get that sensation.

~ Christopher Bollen

We were there too, the other geeks and weird kids whose lives were hellish at school, who escaped into books and computers, who stayed up all night scanning obscure forums, looking for transcendence, dreaming of elsewhere. We were there too, but you didn’t see us, because we were girls. And the costs of being the geek were the same for us, right down to the sexual frustration, the yearning, the being laughed at, the loneliness. […] We had to fight the same battles you did, only harder, because we were women and we also had to fight sexism, some of it from you, and when we went looking for other weird kids to join our gang, we were told we weren’t ‘real geeks’ because we were girls.

~ Laurie Penny

The internet in general and social networking sites in particular are making people more reclusive than social.

~ Sharanya Haridas

A bad media creates a bad world and a good media makes the world good. The day all forms of media will stop functioning, we shall get a good understanding of the real meaning, value and impact of the media.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

More voices means less trust in any given voice.

~ Eli Pariser

The Media and the internet have taken up the responsibility of molding the young ones amongst us, leaving us to pursuethe careers we treasure.

~ Oche Otorkpa

The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial.

~ Sara Sheridan

The only way to neutralize the effect of public journals is to multiply them indefinitely.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

~ Neil Gaiman

Doing the right thing irl (in real life) or online is good netiquette, but it is not always easy. NetworkEtiquette.net

~ David Chiles

Tempted to type meaningless twaddle all the time on Twitter...with alliteration, no less!

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

Exfiltrated metadata from internet service providers and social media platforms can be plugged into big data analytics and once the right algorithm is applied, can allow an adversary surgically precise psychographic targeting of critical infrastructure executives with elevated privileges. Why is no one talking about this?

~ James Scott

Somehow, Naomi was of another, newer, generation than Nathan, despite the fact that they were the same age. Nathan seemed to have absorbed his sense of journalistic ethics from old movies about newspaper reporters. For Naomi, internet sampling and scratching was a completely valid form of journalism, presenting no ethical clouds on its open-source horizon. To not be photographed daily, even by oneself, to not be recorded and videoed and dispersed into the turbulent winds of the net, was to court nonexistence.

~ David Cronenberg

The internet is bringing our collective conscious together by showing the good and bad in humanity. Good Netiquette is the outcome.

~ David Chiles

Updates are low quality if we lose more contacts than we gain. It's over posting if all we get is exposure.

~ David Chiles

I love social media. I love the connectivity it provides, the creativity it allows, and the breathtaking wealth of information we all have at our fingertips because of it.

~ Galit Breen

Like, love, follow, friend, and share positive content for good Netiquette. NetworkEtiquette.net

~ David Chiles

Please, do not take the internet literally because it is data. Life happens. Thank you. Netiquette NetworkEtiquette.net

~ David Chiles

If you're not paying for something, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold.

~ Andrew Lewis

In real life, it's good Netiquette to limit yourself to a two drink maximum when social networking. NetworkEtiquette.net

~ David Chiles

Making your own Netiquette is advanced internet use, but it's not that hard. It's all good. NetworkEtiquette.net

~ David Chiles

When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility. In a way it’s a transcendent experience: we lose our bodies, our messy feelings, our desires, our fears.

~ Zadie Smith

Be Yourself: It is proper netiquette to act as you do in reality on the internet. NetworkEtiquette.net

~ David Chiles

Use Discretion: It is proper netiquette to use discretion, best behavior, in all online activity. NetworkEtiquette.net

~ David Chiles

It is proper netiquette to refrain from using all capital letters in internet correspondence. NetworkEtiquette.net

~ David Chiles

Being comfortable with online contact is a central part of netiquette. Stay in your zone. NetworkEtiquette.net

~ David Chiles