Quote by Jon Meacham

The government invented the Internet.

The government invented the Internet.

Summary

This quote suggests that the government played a crucial role in the creation of the Internet. It implies that the internet was not solely a result of private sector innovation or individual efforts, but instead was a product of government funding and support. It recognizes the government's role in laying the foundation for the development and advancement of modern communication and information technologies.

Topics

Government

By Jon Meacham

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time

After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.

Nicholas Mosley

Romantic

With King Abdullah's leadership and his people's trust he ca

With King Abdullah's leadership and his people's trust he can keep the kingdom stable and secure in all its affairs.

Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud

Leadership

When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun.

When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right.

Travel

If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the

If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.

Kristin Scott Thomas

Best

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

Home

If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it.

If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

Teen

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murd

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.

Art Humor Funny Science Hate Greed Passion Murder Buildings Muppets Intolerance Louis Armstrong Mozard Van Gough

I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I wou

I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.

William J. Clinton

Age

I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like

I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.

Famous

A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.

A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.

Raymond Hitchcock

Laughter

It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wa

It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art.

Art

A drug is neither moral nor immoral -- it's a chemical compo

A drug is neither moral nor immoral -- it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.

Drugs