Internet Quotes

We the people have no excuse for starry-eyed sycophantic group-think in the Information Age. Knowledge is but a fingertip away.

Tiffany Madison

Valentine's day without your love is like a year without the Internet.

Santosh Kalwar

Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories, imagination and irrationality in opposing, contradictory states that existed and didn't exist, all at the same time.

Robin Wasserman

Information on the Internet is subject to the same rules and regulations as conversation at a bar.

George Lundberg

To live is to war with trolls.

Henrik Ibsen

Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

Roger Ebert

Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.

John Green

In Cyberspace, the 1st Amendment is a local ordinance.

John Perry Barlow

The only thing I know of whose shortened form — www — takes three times longer to say than what it's short for.

Douglas Adams

I have been taunted on various platforms recently for becoming a neo-conservative, and have been the object of some fascinating web-site and blog stuff, from the isolationist Right as well as from the peaceniks, who both argue in a semi-literate way that neo-conservativism is Trotskyism and 'permanent revolution' reborn.Sometimes, you have to comb an overt anti-Semitism out of this propaganda before you can even read it straight. And I can guarantee you that none of these characters has any idea at all of what the theory of 'permanent revolution' originally meant.

Christopher Hitchens

Reporters used to be blue-collar at the Globe now, it's practically required that you have a trust fund.

Howie Carr

With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets.

Orson Scott Card

Old hackers never die. They just go to bitnet.

Anon.

Gays have become the unpaid secretaries of desire, filing and cataloguing human weakness. Promiscuity is now a form of bureaucracy. Tedious, eye-straining, number-crunching slave work

Mark Simpson

The ides of surfing the net -- I don't know who called it that -- it's more like slogging through the net.

Al Di Guido

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

Henry David Thoreau

And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost. We will enter the Internet version of the dark ages, an era of shifting fears and wild prejudices, transmitted to people who don't know any better.

Michael Crichton, Speech, 2003

URLs are the 800 numbers of the 1990's.

Chris Clark

I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'

Mike Godwin

Cyberspace: A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.

William Gibson