Quotes and Sayings about Internet
"Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups."
- Tom Allen
(Related: Health, American, Care, Entrepreneurs, Internet)
"And it's interesting, when you look at the predictions made during the peak of the boom in the 1990s, about e-commerce, or internet traffic, or broadband adoption, or internet advertising, they were all right - they were just wrong in time."
- Chris Anderson
(Related: Time, Adoption, Advertising, Internet, Right, Wrong)
"We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step."
- Kofi Annan
(Related: Nature, Time, Globalization, Internet, Support)
"At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet."
- Piers Anthony
(Related: Time, Internet)
"I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com."
- Piers Anthony
(Related: Internet, Now, Publishing, Self, Writer)
"I read on the Internet that I was dead."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Internet)
"We've got a major problem in our culture, as it relates to the Internet and pornography and child pornography."
- John Ashcroft
(Related: Culture, Internet, Pornography)
"The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them."
- John Ashcroft
(Related: Ability, Children, Internet)
"About five, six FBI agents walked into the courthouse and arrested me. They said I was being arrested for distribution of information related to explosives over the Internet."
- Sherman Austin
(Related: Being, Information, Internet)
"I've seen, not surprisingly, no action taken against those people, but here I am, an anarchist website, not even close to what that is, not even close to what else you can find on the Internet."
- Sherman Austin
(Related: People, Action, Internet)
"There's something on the Internet called the White Resistance Manual. It's pretty much for white supremacists."
- Sherman Austin
(Related: Internet, Pretty)
"Kids don't go out and buy CDs, they make their own, they download them from the Internet."
- Sebastian Bach
(Related: Internet, Kids)
"The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly."
- Randy Bachman
(Related: People, Fact, Internet, Now)
"Pre-teens, teens and college students have unlimited access to the Internet - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Because of the repeated exposure they have to illegal Internet gambling sites, they fall victim by the thousands."
- Spencer Bachus
(Related: College, Day, Gambling, Internet, Students)
"In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted."
- Spencer Bachus
(Related: Fact, Gambling, Internet, Study, University)
"Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone."
- Spencer Bachus
(Related: People, Gambling, Internet, Study, University)
"There's the classic charitable contribution, which we receive thousands, and we're extremely grateful and they often come with notes from people, which are very heartwarming, about how much difference our products have made in their life on the Internet."
- Mitchell Baker
(Related: Life, People, Difference, Internet)
"The ability of our people to think quickly and create great products in this whole new world of Internet open standards is not only essential to our success but is also one of the things that impresses me most about Netscape."
- Jim Barksdale
(Related: Success, People, Ability, Internet, Open, World)
"Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology."
- Jim Barksdale
(Related: Technology, Being, Internet, Now)
"In my column series "The Main Thing," I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners."
- Jim Barksdale
(Related: Business, Technology, People, Internet, Talk)
"The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it."
- John Perry Barlow
(Related: Censorship, Internet)
"There should be a background check every time a firearm is transferred. You shouldn't be able to go to a gun show and buy guns without a background check. There are Internet gun sales, classified ads in the newspapers - and you can buy guns without background checks."
- Michael D. Barnes
(Related: Time, Internet, Newspapers, Sales)
"The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat."
- Dave Barry
(Related: Society, Future)
"The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting."
- Dave Barry
(Related: History, Development, Communication, Internet, Invention, Waiting)
"I am the parent of teenagers, my daughters are 13 and 15, so the issue of Internet safety has been an important issue. I have been visiting middle schools to talk about some of the challenges that they face."
- Melissa Bean
(Related: Daughters, Internet, Safety, Schools, Talk, Teenagers)
"Not as much as I used to, but I use the Internet for everything. I use it for information. Like if I'm planning a trip or something, I'll check out the place I'm going to."
- Catherine Bell
(Related: Information, Internet, Planning)
"I'm a babe in the woods when it comes to the Internet."
- Peter Benchley
(Related: Internet)
"In general, the Internet was not designed to accommodate deliberate failures to communicate."
- Daniel J. Bernstein
(Related: Internet)
"Who needs fan mail when you have the Internet?"
- Nuno Bettencourt
(Related: Internet, Mail, Needs)
"But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are. We don't get our hair caught in it, but that's the level of primitiveness of where we are. We're in 1908."
- Jeff Bezos
(Related: Hair, Internet, Machine)
"As children, many of us were taught never to talk to strangers. As parents and grandparents, our message must change with technology to include strangers on the Internet."
- Judy Biggert
(Related: Change, Technology, Children, Grandparents, Internet, Strangers, Talk)
"This legislation gives parents some comfort that their children won't fall prey to child predators while using the Internet at schools and libraries that receive federal dollars for Internet services."
- Judy Biggert
(Related: Children, Comfort, Internet, Legislation, Libraries, Parents, Schools)
"People think of us as an information distributor because that's how they relate to the Internet. But most of the time people already have pretty well established opinions."
- Joan Blades
(Related: Time, People, Information, Internet, Opinions, Pretty)
"Moveon is not a one-way broadcast media. The Internet, when used best, is a two-way media. We have a forum in which people can post comments and those comments can be rated. We get a sense of what people feel most passionately about."
- Joan Blades
(Related: People, Internet, Media, Post, Sense)
"In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age."
- Matt Blunt
(Related: Age, Government, Technology, Economy, Internet, State)
"When you think of Napster, you think of music. But the first thing that struck me was that this was an important case not only for the music industry but for the whole Internet."
- David Boies
(Related: Music, First, Internet)
"With the internet, things are so much more immediate. People taste-test things to see if they want to buy the CD."
- Michael Bolton
(Related: People, Internet, Taste, Want)
"Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers."
- Omar Bongo
(Related: Information, Internet, Newspapers)
"I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet."
- Omar Bongo
(Related: Communication, Freedom, Information, Internet, Tools)
"In an effort to provide my constituents with information on how they can make contributions to a number of relief and humanitarian organizations, I have posted a short list of these groups and contact numbers on my Internet website."
- Jo Bonner
(Related: Effort, Information, Internet, Numbers)
"The Internet's kinda in danger of getting heart disease pretty soon, I think. Arteries are getting clogged."
- Sean Booth
(Related: Heart, Danger, Disease, Internet, Pretty)
"The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication."
- Rick Boucher
(Related: Being, Communication, First, Internet, Law, Legislation, Research)
"I think that the balance needs to be restored, and I would note that in the camp in which I am in, one finds libraries, universities, the Internet industry, the manufacturers of digital media, and consumers."
- Rick Boucher
(Related: Balance, Internet, Libraries, Media, Needs)
"I have been involved in Internet-related policy for approximately one decade, and I have been using the Internet myself for almost that period of time."
- Rick Boucher
(Related: Time, Policy, Internet)
"The Democratic Party had no idea how to use the Internet. They treated it like free money and then kept on doing all the rest of the things they normally do."
- Wes Boyd
(Related: Money, Idea, Internet, Party, Rest)
"We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone."
- Richard Branson
(Related: Computer, Internet, Will, Years)
"Actually I consider myself a superficially normal looking person who has a vast collection of bizarre silly porn hidden in his basement, as all normal looking people do, and I'm keeping it hidden from everyone in the world except those few people with access to the Internet."
- Chris A. Bridges
(Related: People, Bizarre, Internet, Silly, World)
"What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS News that's quite outrageous."
- Tom Brokaw
(Related: Internet, News)
"The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life."
- Andrew Brown
(Related: Life, People, Internet)
"I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system."
- Jerry Brown
(Related: Computers, Internet, Thinking)
"Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested."
- Jack Bruce
(Related: Country, Internet, Sales)
"Then there's going to be another project I am involved with, in fact, I'm going back to film it next week. It's a game for the Internet called Advance Warriors, and my character is Max, who is blind, but he has special powers. It will be a new game played on the Internet."
- Jeremy Bulloch
(Related: Character, Blind, Fact, Film, Internet, Project, Will)
"I see the Internet as the next big deal - I wanted to get in on it early on so I wouldn't get behind it all."
- Bruce Campbell
(Related: Internet)
"You have to keep in mind that we don't run Windows, we don't have disks, we don't do Internet."
- John Campbell
(Related: Internet, Mind, Windows)
"The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet's availability by taxing access to it."
- Chris Cannon
(Related: Ideas, Expectations, Information, Internet, News, Spring)
"Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world."
- Jimmy Carter
(Related: Computers, People, Globalization, Internet, Talking, World)
"I continue to have a special pride and passion for AOL, and I strongly believe that AOL - once the leading Internet company in the world - can return to its past greatness."
- Steve Case
(Related: Greatness, Company, Internet, Leading, Passion, Past, Pride, World)
"Five or ten years ago, when it was clear the Internet was becoming a mainstream phenomenon, it was equally clear that a lot of people were being left out and could be left behind."
- Steve Case
(Related: People, Being, Internet, Years)
"Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address - just one - this country would use up one third of the entire public IP address space."
- Vinton Cerf
(Related: Country, Internet, Public, Space)
"There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access."
- Vinton Cerf
(Related: Country, Internet)
"We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over the Internet."
- Vinton Cerf
(Related: Control, Internet, Numbers, Will)
"What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing - or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax - that you can do on the public switched telephone network."
- Vinton Cerf
(Related: Internet, Network, Public)
"First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense."
- Vinton Cerf
(Related: Business, First, Internet, Investment, Now, Sense)
"The Internet lives where anyone can access it."
- Vinton Cerf
(Related: Internet)
"We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the tools they need to protect them."
- Peter Chernin
(Related: Leadership, Giving, Internet, Parents, Tools)
"Fire has impacted every part of our lives - without fire, there would be no shopping, right? - that's how the Internet will intrude on our lives, particularly our kids' lives."
- Jay Chiat
(Related: Fire, Internet, Kids, Right, Will)
"Russia should support globalization. The Internet can develop in Russia in a very speedy way."
- Anatoly Chubais
(Related: Globalization, Internet, Russia, Support)
"The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language."
- Jim Clark
(Related: Internet, Language)
"I'd say there was a fair amount of skepticism at the time about whether the Internet held any promise. And of course I felt that it did."
- Jim Clark
(Related: Time, Internet, Promise, Skepticism)
"No matter how much Bill Gates may claim otherwise, he missed the Internet, like a barreling freight train that he didn't hear or see coming."
- Jim Clark
(Related: Internet, May)
"I'm actually doing a show. from my shed. on the internet. but it won't be music or anything, it's more to do with drinking and smoking. it's an art piece."
- Vince Clarke
(Related: Art, Music, Drinking, Internet, Smoking)
"Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom."
- Hillary Clinton
(Related: Government, People, American, Freedom, Internet, Nations)
"Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree."
- William J. Clinton
(Related: Change, Money, Power, People, Internet, Public, World)
"The hardest thing is trying not to correct everything on the Internet. It'd be night and day - wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. So you just have to say, 'All right, I'll take it, bring it on.'"
- George Clooney
(Related: Day, Internet, Night, Right, Trying, Wrong)
"I was stuck at home in bed with me and got more and more involved with the Internet. I used it to keep in contact with friends and to make sure I was up to date with everything that was going on in the world."
- Benjamin Cohen
(Related: Home, Bed, Friends, Internet, World)
"I think that new communications are wonderful and I am delighted to be a part of the Internet generation."
- Judy Collins
(Related: Internet)
"Well I'm a longtime AOL subscriber and I love the whole thing. I'm an email junkie and I love the internet, though 7th Heaven doesn't give me much free time to surf these days."
- Stephen Collins
(Related: Love, Time, Heaven, Internet)
"I printed a list of Irish names from the Internet and my husband, Dave, saw Finley on the list. I really liked it but didn't want to scare Dave off with my enthusiasm. So I used a little reverse psychology and let him think it was his idea."
- Holly Marie Combs
(Related: HusbIdea, Enthusiasm, Internet, Irish, Names, Psychology, Want)
"Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society."
- Kent Conrad
(Related: Computers, Education, Society, Internet)
"We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution."
- Scott Cook
(Related: Day, First, Revolution, Internet)
"Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature."
- Billy Corgan
(Related: Nature, God, Cats, Culture, Internet, Talk)
"I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face."
- Bernard Cornwell
(Related: Internet)
"All three networks have always had a morning show but now cable of course is taking some of that audience away and a variety of other things, probably the Internet as well."
- Katie Couric
(Related: Internet, Now, Variety)
"We are having Internet Governance discussions and meetings and a very large number of people are discussing the future of the Internet who have no clue as to what the Internet is except that it is important and that they have to be involved."
- Steve Crocker
(Related: People, Future, Internet, Meetings)
"The Internet has become important on the world's stage."
- Steve Crocker
(Related: Internet, World)
"Of course for many years directors have had to go on the road with their movies and promote them and I've done that since the beginning. So that's not new but the forms of it are different such as with the internet."
- David Cronenberg
(Related: Movies, Beginning, Internet, Road, Years)
"There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because there have been some great live things that ended up on the Internet. Rather than try to stop it, we like it. If nobody gave a crap about you, they wouldn't bother to bootleg you."
- Burton Cummings
(Related: Encouraging, Internet, May, Now, Right)
"The Microsoft actions announced today are exactly the kinds of industry initiatives we need. Microsoft is using its resources to bring real privacy protection to Internet users by creating incentives for more websites to provide strong privacy protection."
- William M. Daley
(Related: Actions, Internet, Privacy, Protection, Today)
"I think up until that time a lot of focus on Internet coverage was either sort of the bits and bytes aspect of it, sort of the high-tech aspect of it, and the sociological aspect of it, which is how it was transforming culture."
- James Daly
(Related: Time, Culture, Focus, Internet)
"There certainly was a lot of potential in the air for doing a magazine which focused on the way business, in particular, was being transformed by the Internet."
- James Daly
(Related: Business, Being, Internet, Potential)
"See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool."
- James Daly
(Related: Business, Strategy, Internet)
"People who say that the Internet is the bubble are incredibly misguided."
- James Daly
(Related: People, Internet)
"The story of the Internet is this incredibly strong, exciting change."
- James Daly
(Related: Change, Internet)
"Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects."
- Judge Dalzell
(Related: Strength, Chaos, First, Internet, Liberty, Speech)
"As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion."
- Judge Dalzell
(Related: Government, Internet, Protection, Speech)
"More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago."
- Edwidge Danticat
(Related: People, Goodness, Information, Internet, Years)
"In Japan, they have TV sets in cars right now, where you can punch up traffic routes, weather, everything! You can get Internet access already in cars in Japan, so within the next 2 to 3 years it's gonna be so crazy!"
- Glenn Danzig
(Related: Internet, Now, Right, Weather, Years)
"Now that digital lifestyle devices, tablets, wireless phones, and other Internet appliances are beginning to come of age, we need to worry about presenting our content to these devices so that it is optimized for their display capabilities."
- Mike Davidson
(Related: Age, Beginning, Content, Internet, Now, Worry)
"People are talking about the Internet as though it is going to change the world. It's not going to change the world. It's not going to change the way we think, and it's not going to change the way we feel."
- Peter Davison
(Related: Change, People, Internet, Talking, World)
"I don't even own my own name on the internet - somebody else bought it."
- Cat Deeley
(Related: Internet, Name)
"Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001."
- Bill Delahunt
(Related: Internet, Sales, states, Taxes)
"Cyber terrorism could also become more attractive as the real and virtual worlds become more closely coupled, with automobiles, appliances, and other devices attached to the Internet."
- Dorothy Denning
(Related: Automobiles, Internet, Terrorism)
"We are offering to the American public a line of delicious Italian-American foods. They will be available through the Internet, shopping networks and national store distribution."
- Rocco DiSpirito
(Related: American, Internet, Public, Will)
"Internet mailing lists are like Fox television shows. They have really cool previews, and they get you all excited about them, but they just don't live up to their promises."
- John Dobbin
(Related: Internet, Promises, Television)
"Green technologies - going green - is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century."
- John Doerr
(Related: Opportunity, Internet)
"So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message."
- Thomas Dolby
(Related: Music, Time, Computer, Internet)
"The internet is a great way to get on the net."
- Bob Dole
(Related: Internet)
"Now is the time to draw a clean, clear, bright line and say if you are engaging in speech over the Internet you do not have to check with your lawyer or your accountant. You are a free American, and you have the opportunity to engage in free speech over the Internet."
- John Doolittle
(Related: Time, Opportunity, American, Free speech, Internet, Now)
"The only way the Internet will continue to remain the thriving medium it has become today is to keep it under the control of the United States."
- John Doolittle
(Related: Control, Internet, states, Today, United, Will)
"The United States invented the Internet and it has been our gift to the world, paid for by our taxpayers. The U.N.'s desire to take that gift as a means of increasing its power must be stopped."
- John Doolittle
(Related: Power, Desire, Internet, states, United, World)
"Turning the Internet over to the U.N. or some other phony international organization would be a disaster, and I am not willing to stand by and let it happen."
- John Doolittle
(Related: Disaster, Internet)
"If the U.N. were to be successful in its efforts to control the Internet, countries where human rights records range from questionable to criminal could be put in charge of determining what is and is not allowed to appear online."
- John Doolittle
(Related: Successful, Control, Countries, Rights, Human rights, Internet)
"The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications."
- Peter Drucker
(Related: Technology, Information, Internet)
"Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business."
- Matt Drudge
(Related: Business, Movies, Internet, News, Television)
"The Internet feeds off the main press, and the main press feeds off the Internet. They're working in tandem."
- Matt Drudge
(Related: Internet, Press)
"There's a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention."
- Matt Drudge
(Related: Attention, Danger, Internet, Ugly)
"There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me."
- Matt Drudge
(Related: Editors, Future, Internet, World)
"If the first lady is concerned about this Internet cycle, what would she have done during the heyday when there was 12, 13 editions of a paper in one day? What would she have done with that news cycle?"
- Matt Drudge
(Related: Day, First, Lady, Internet, News)
"I do most of my business on that dirty Internet that you were just talking about, where I find there is a lot of freedom to report exactly what I want."
- Matt Drudge
(Related: Business, Freedom, Internet, Talking, Want)
"As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom."
- Esther Dyson
(Related: Government, Freedom, Internet)
"Our investments in data, Internet and international have been particularly timely and have positioned the company to post industry-leading incremental revenue gains."
- Bernard Ebbers
(Related: Company, Internet, Post)
"Our communications services revenue growth is being driven by continued strong top-line performance in data, Internet and international - three of the fastest growing and most profitable areas within communications services."
- Bernard Ebbers
(Related: Growth, Performance, Being, Internet)
"I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly."
- Roger Ebert
(Related: People, Opportunity, Criticism, Film, Giving, Internet, Self)
"The Internet is a whole new world opening up."
- Kenneth Edmonds
(Related: Internet, World)
"Rogue internet pharmacies continue to pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Americans. Simply put, a few unethical physicians and pharmacists have become drug suppliers to a nation."
- Dianne Feinstein
(Related: Health, Americans, Internet, Nation, Physicians, Safety)
"I'm obsessed with shopping. I'll get these urges to buy, like to shop for stuff on the Internet. I search for all kinds of weird gizmos I could get."
- Tom Felton
(Related: Internet)
"Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal."
- Suzanne Fields
(Related: Movies, People, Hollywood, Internet, Law, Learning, Sharing, Songs)
"The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see."
- Carly Fiorina
(Related: Money, Truth, Internet, Objectives, Washington)
"I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing."
- Carrie Fisher
(Related: Love, Internet)
"Make no mistake; child predation on the Internet is a growing problem."
- Mike Fitzpatrick
(Related: Mistake, Internet)
"Parents have the ability to screen their children's Internet access at home."
- Mike Fitzpatrick
(Related: Home, Ability, Children, Internet, Parents)
"The Internet has brought communities across the globe closer together through instant communication."
- Mike Fitzpatrick
(Related: Communication, Internet)
"The freedom to connect to the world anywhere at anytime brings with it the threat of unscrupulous predators and criminals who mask their activities with the anonymity the Internet provides to its users."
- Mike Fitzpatrick
(Related: Freedom, Internet, World)
"The best defense against these people is to educate parents and children of the dangers that come along with the Internet and by limiting access to certain sites during the school day."
- Mike Fitzpatrick
(Related: People, Children, Day, Defense, Internet, Parents, School)
"Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to serve as a clearinghouse and resource for parents, teachers and children for information on the dangers of surfing the Internet."
- Mike Fitzpatrick
(Related: Design, Home, Children, Information, Internet, Legislation, Parents, Safety, Teachers, Trade)
"I think the Internet's been a tremendous tool in terms of breaking down the power structure of information and entertainment, particularly at a time when so much information and entertainment were in the hands of so few people, with multinationals owning everything."
- Dave Foley
(Related: Power, Time, People, Entertainment, Information, Internet)
"The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom."
- Frederick Forsyth
(Related: Diversity, Freedom, Internet)
"The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet."
- Barney Frank
(Related: Internet, Now, Reality, Right, Sense, Talk)
"These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries."
- Thomas Frank
(Related: Computer, Focus, Internet, Popular, Talk)
"If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place."
- Brendan Fraser
(Related: War, First, Information, Internet, Vietnam)
"The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes."
- Milton Friedman
(Related: Government, Internet, Taxes, Will)
"I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened."
- Thomas Friedman
(Related: Being, Country, Internet, Kids, Parents, Running, Will, World)
"Today, it is clear that Internet organizing is vital to our future success."
- Martin Frost
(Related: Success, Future, Internet, Today)
"I deleted all the games from my computer. I spent days trawling the Internet. I started slowly."
- Mary Garden
(Related: Computer, Games, Internet)
"The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow."
- Bill Gates
(Related: Internet, Tomorrow)
"The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
- John Gilmour
(Related: Censorship, Internet)
"The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it's allowed is silos of interest."
- Seth Godin
(Related: Interest, Internet)
"I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data on. The rise of Internet commerce completely altered the amount of information you could gather on company behavior so I naturally drifted toward it."
- Austan Goolsbee
(Related: Behavior, Commerce, Company, End, Information, Internet)
"The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder."
- Al Gore
(Related: Day, Internet, Night)
"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
- Al Gore
(Related: Congress, Internet, Service, states, United)
"Just this week, my husband proposed a plan for schools and libraries to develop their own plans to keep children from finding indecent material on the Internet as an alternative to a Congressional proposal that would require a federally mandated solution."
- Tipper Gore
(Related: HusbChildren, Internet, Libraries, Schools, Solution)
"Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet."
- Tipper Gore
(Related: Music, Internet, Popular, Television, Variety)
"You're talking to somebody who two years ago couldn't figure out how to use e-mail and who now has carpal tunnel. It has totally changed in that these films would not be getting out to people the way they're getting out without the Internet."
- Robert Greenwald
(Related: People, Internet, Now, Talking, Years)
"For me that's what's fascinating about the internet, that aggregate thing."
- Colin Greenwood
(Related: Internet)
"Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC."
- Andy Grove
(Related: Internet, Sunset)
"Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line."
- Andy Grove
(Related: Congress, Internet, Law, Public, Will)
"I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you can't find in your local bookshop. This could be a lifeline if you live further from the sources."
- Marilyn Hacker
(Related: Being, Internet)
"The Internet makes it possible for people like me to live the way I do now. Without it, I'd have to be in New York or some other city. I think the Internet is the greatest invention in history after antibiotics."
- Jane Haddam
(Related: History, People, Internet, Invention, Now)
"I'm not well versed on the verbiage of the internet."
- Larry Hagman
(Related: Internet)
"Those who are seeking ways to tap into the potential of e-mail will find themselves in a position to capitalize on the pending explosion in Internet usage."
- Alexander Haig
(Related: Internet, Potential, Will)
"Nuclear holocaust might eliminate the Internet."
- Taylor Hanson
(Related: Internet)
"There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true."
- Ian Hart
(Related: Work, Internet, Now, Shakespeare, Theory)
"The federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to stifle public debate online."
- Dennis Hastert
(Related: Government, Control, Congress, Debate, Internet, Public, Trying)
"Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow."
- Orrin Hatch
(Related: Government, Internet, Today, Tomorrow)
"As a result, we will continue to see more innovation on the Internet and on mobile phones than on consoles."
- Trip Hawkins
(Related: Innovation, Internet, Result, Will)
"Today the Internet is run by private sector interests within the United States under the supervision of a nonprofit entity formed by the U.S. Department of Commerce."
- Robin Hayes
(Related: Commerce, Internet, states, Today, United)
"With over 1 billion users and counting worldwide, the Internet has quickly become a critical place for individuals, business communities and governments to share and distribute information."
- Robin Hayes
(Related: Business, Information, Internet)
"The Internet was developed in large part by U.S. government research funding to develop new communications networks, starting with a network created by the Department of Defense."
- Robin Hayes
(Related: Government, Defense, Internet, Network, Research)
"I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here."
- Andy Hertzfeld
(Related: Food, Banks, Internet, Magic)
"If net neutrality goes away, it will fundamentally change everything about the Internet."
- James Hilton
(Related: Change, Internet, Neutrality, Will)
"Honestly, I'm more into the computer, the Internet, and checking out scores or the news."
- Martina Hingis
(Related: Computer, Internet, News)
"Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after."
- Ian Hislop
(Related: People, Internet, Journalism, World)
"The internet is a total inversion of television. It's the opposite."
- Joel Hodgson
(Related: Internet, Television)
"I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned, I guess."
- Katie Holmes
(Related: Computer, Internet, Old, World)
"Through a blog, an ordinary citizen such as myself can use the Internet, this thing invented by Albert Gore, to talk from my house to the U.S. capital and to make use of my right to point out to government officials and to the media when they are wrong."
- John Jay Hooker
(Related: Government, Internet, Media, Right, Talk, Wrong)
"A short exposure to the convention convinced me that the Internet may save the Democracy in that it is a way for the people, for the citizens, to have some direct influence on the government."
- John Jay Hooker
(Related: Government, People, Democracy, Influence, Internet, May)
"We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved."
- Bell Hooks
(Related: Internet, Skin, Space)
"I don't know when the Return of the Living Dead are happening. That's been on the Internet for years."
- Tobe Hooper
(Related: Internet, Living, Years)
"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."
- Charlie Hunter
(Related: Internet, Tools, World)
"Every portal coming into this country is being attacked by those who would harvest information, both national security secrets and just the common information of private individuals and private individuals. That crime is going on, every day, on a single entity known as the Internet."
- Darrell Issa
(Related: Being, Country, Crime, Day, Harvest, Information, Internet, National security, Secrets)
"We talked about the Internet and Wikipedia and how facts and history are being collectively created online."
- Joichi Ito
(Related: History, Being, Facts, Internet)
"Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see."
- Joichi Ito
(Related: People, Internet, Italy, Machine, Media)
"Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet."
- Joichi Ito
(Related: Internet, Will)
"If it's on the Internet, then it's gotta be true."
- Ken Jennings
(Related: Internet)
"I don't have the identity of any of them. I only had the nicks that they used on Internet Relay Chat."
- Jon Johansen
(Related: Identity, Internet)
"I'm an Internet junkie."
- Marion Jones
(Related: Internet)
"You mentioned Ross Perot. Mr. Perot jumped into the race at the last minute, had one issue that he ran on, the budget deficit, was in and out of the race a couple of times, and still got 20 million votes, didn't have the Internet."
- Hamilton Jordan
(Related: Internet, Race)
"We're trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to speak out about their frustration about the polarized country that we live in politically."
- Hamilton Jordan
(Related: People, American, Country, Frustration, Internet, Trying)
"I know that the internet has helped a new world audience find me."
- Wynonna Judd
(Related: Internet, World)
"Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant."
- Mitchell Kapor
(Related: Fire, Information, Internet)
"Children can take lessons in that school via the Internet and can score extra points like e.g. in Geography or History. That sounds very promising and is a fantastic basis for future steps."
- Anatoly Karpov
(Related: History, Children, Future, Geography, Internet, School)
"I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce."
- Jack Kemp
(Related: Internet)
"There are some scary statistics out there: one in five kids aged 10-17 have received a sexual solicitation or approach via the Internet."
- Mark Kennedy
(Related: Internet, Kids, Statistics)
"The Internet is a great information tool, and can be a place where kids learn, but we must remember that when kids are online, they are in public."
- Mark Kennedy
(Related: Information, Internet, Kids, Public)
"A lot of the point mags are going out of business. They dropped the pay tremendously and it's all because of the internet. I used to go out once a month to LA and shoot for one week. I'd make a ton of money then come back to New York and do whatever I wanted."
- Richard Kern
(Related: Money, Business, Internet)
"The internet has become such a great tool not just for chefs but for everyone. The net has given everyone the tools to see and almost experience new and different ideas."
- Graham Kerr
(Related: Experience, Ideas, Internet, Tools)
"I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are preceving you."
- Nicole Kidman
(Related: Love, People, Acting, Identity, Interest, Internet, Press)
"Even though there's these songs and whoever the hell put it in the internet, if there's any good riffs in them, we raped the songs and put in the new ones."
- Kerry King
(Related: Hell, Internet, Songs)
"With 500 channels and the Internet available, you'd think a candidate could get the word out."
- Larry King
(Related: Internet, Word)
"You can browse to your heart's content but it's hard work and not easy on the feet unless you do it through catalogs or the Internet, and I like to touch and try on the things I buy."
- Judith Krantz
(Related: Work, Heart, Content, Feet, Hard work, Internet)
"I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now."
- Jhumpa Lahiri
(Related: Computers, Life, People, Internet, Now, Right, Want)
"One of the most important accomplishments of the Caucus is raising awareness with law enforcement and communities nationwide on the issues of child safety and Internet safety."
- Nick Lampson
(Related: Accomplishments, Awareness, Internet, Law, Safety)
"So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police."
- Tom Lantos
(Related: Truth, America, Internet, Police)
"Let me start with Yahoo. As we meet today, a Chinese citizen who had the courage to speak his mind on the Internet is in prison because Yahoo chose to share his name and address with the Chinese Government."
- Tom Lantos
(Related: Government, Courage, Internet, Mind, Name, Prison, Today)
"Google, Microsoft and Yahoo should be developing new technologies to bypass government sensors and barriers to the Internet; but instead, they agreed to guard the gates themselves."
- Tom Lantos
(Related: Government, Internet)
"The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it."
- Jennifer Lawrence
(Related: Internet)
"I'm chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science; help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process."
- Joshua Lederberg
(Related: Science, People, Committee, Help, Internet)
"I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects."
- Joshua Lederberg
(Related: Communication, First, Internet, Projects, Research)
"Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen - the Internet - has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don't get in the way of this ideology."
- Lawrence Lessig
(Related: Fact, Facts, Ideology, Internet, Property, Space)
"If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to build upon as they see fit."
- Lawrence Lessig
(Related: People, Internet, Value)
"If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities."
- Lawrence Lessig
(Related: Creativity, Rights, Internet, Sound)
"Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which the Internet revolution lives. These changes will end the revolution."
- Lawrence Lessig
(Related: Change, Nature, Work, End, Revolution, Internet, Prosperity, Rules, Will)
"Although the Internet makes it seem as if you have a direct connection to the securities market, you don't. Lines may clog; systems may break; orders may back-up."
- Arthur Levitt
(Related: Connection, Internet, May)
"I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine."
- Steven Levy
(Related: Power, Idea, Collaboration, Hardware, Internet, Software)
"I mean, you go to the internet and you can see all these conversations and arguments that our fans have about our music and that's wonderful to know, that people would take the time to be that involved."
- Alex Lifeson
(Related: Music, Time, People, Arguments, Fans, Internet)
"I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet."
- Ken MacLeod
(Related: Father, Devil, Internet, Lies)
"The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive."
- Marc Maron
(Related: Consciousness, Internet, Unconscious)
"I don't know much about the internet, I'm afraid."
- James Marsters
(Related: Internet)
"When I get back from this book tour, I'm planning to learn the internet. Maybe I can hook up in cyberspace."
- Armistead Maupin
(Related: Internet, Planning)
"But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers."
- Armistead Maupin
(Related: Opportunity, Possibility, Communication, Fraud, Internet, Strangers, Today, World)
"I think the Internet, particularly the availability of information, is great. I do a lot of correspondence on-line and have a chat line to talk to my fans as well."
- Anne McCaffrey
(Related: Fans, Information, Internet, Talk)
"The future is electronic. It's radio, television and the Internet; it's not really newspapers anymore."
- Will McDonough
(Related: Future, Internet, Newspapers, Television)
"I think almost every newspaper in the United States has lost circulation due to the Internet. I also think the Internet will lead to a lot of plagiarism in journalism."
- Will McDonough
(Related: Internet, Journalism, Plagiarism, states, United, Will)
"The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears."
- Phil McGraw
(Related: Home, Children, Competition, Information, Internet, Voice)
"I think that the Internet - and I do love the free flow of ideas on the 'Net - is like the wild west of the information world."
- Vince McMahon
(Related: Love, Ideas, Information, Internet, World)
"The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media."
- Vince McMahon
(Related: Being, Internet, Media, News)
"One of the problems with the Internet is that a lot of times it is inaccurate."
- Vince McMahon
(Related: Internet, Problems)
"We were the first urban school system in the country to wire all of our schools for the Internet."
- Thomas Menino
(Related: Country, First, Internet, School, Schools)
"Vivendi will be one of the very few top communications groups of the Internet age. We will have customers all over the globe, providing services through all kinds of technology."
- Jean-Marie Messier
(Related: Technology, Age, Internet, Will)
"In seven to ten years video traffic on the Internet will exceed data and voice traffic combined."
- Bob Metcalfe
(Related: Internet, Voice, Will, Years)
"The internet will catastrophically collapse in 1996."
- Robert Metcalfe
(Related: Internet, Will)
"Human beings are human beings. They say what they want, don't they? They used to say it across the fence while they were hanging wash. Now they just say it on the Internet."
- Dennis Miller
(Related: Internet, Now, Want)
"I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up."
- Dan Millman
(Related: Technology, Mother, Earth, Internet, Living, Religious, Zeal)
"Well, the future of the Internet is... Reality."
- Daniel Keys Moran
(Related: Future, Internet, Reality)
"I think especially with the Internet and the amount of reality shows that are going on, there's no way to keep a secret anymore, so I try to let my project be as much as reality show as I can allow it to be."
- Jason Mraz
(Related: Internet, Project, Reality)
"There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there's just millions of voices and people want to be heard."
- Rupert Murdoch
(Related: People, Internet, Media, Now, Want)
"First, I used some of my own experiences and observations from attending a public high school. Secondly, I joined in some Internet chat rooms for gays and lesbians."
- Ellen Muth
(Related: First, Internet, Public, School)
"One of the problems the internet has introduced is that in this electronic village, all the village idiots have internet access."
- Peter Nelson
(Related: Idiots, Internet, Problems)
"You have to have access to ideas. The Internet is facilitating that access to ideas. In 25 years, the way that data's going to flow back and forth, we don't quite understand yet."
- Michael Nesmith
(Related: Ideas, Internet, Years)
"The rock sitting on the shelf has potential because it can fall-it's the same way with the Internet. It has this potential. It's not really doing it yet, but it's about to."
- Michael Nesmith
(Related: Internet, Potential)
"The Internet provides the access to resources, so it's incumbent upon the people who control those resources to make sure that the economic engine stays intact."
- Michael Nesmith
(Related: People, Control, Internet)
"Once the smoke of the market crash clears off, you know, the Internet will pick back up and go. Take a look at what's happening to some of the big companies like eBay and Yahoo, the publicly traded stocks. You know, they're all coming back up off the mat now."
- Michael Nesmith
(Related: Internet, Now, Will)
"Those involved in the program are interested in how to use photography, videos, the Internet, film, and anything related to communications and transmission of information in the most up-to-date modern ways."
- Major Owens
(Related: Film, Information, Internet, Photography)
"I agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge'."
- Kerry Packer
(Related: Son, Knowledge, Electricity)
"Eventually, if you had a printer that is IPP compliant, that printer will have a Web address and anyone around the world who can get on the Internet can print to that URL."
- Robert Palmer
(Related: Internet, Will, World)
"Everything is relative. Is the Internet fast? Not for most people. Is it always on? Yes, for cable modem and DSL users but that represents a tiny percentage of users."
- John Patrick
(Related: People, Internet)
"I've just found out there are pages on the internet dedicated to whether I'm gay or not."
- Matthew Perry
(Related: Gay, Internet)
"It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music."
- Tom Petty
(Related: Funny, Music, People, Being, Internet)
"It seems to me like the Internet allows you to break that structure a little bit. You know, here's your CD that's going into stores, here's your EP that you offer online, here's a subscription for songs you recorded on the road, here's your live stuff streaming."
- Liz Phair
(Related: Internet, Road, Songs)
"When I use the Internet, it's pretty much strictly for music. Checking out other people's web sites, what's going on, listening to music. It's pretty much a musical thing for me."
- Liz Phair
(Related: Music, People, Internet, Listening, Pretty)
"Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going."
- John Podhoretz
(Related: Direction, Internet)
"The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like."
- Pete du Pont
(Related: Change, Age, Information, Internet, News, Sea)
"That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it."
- Jon Postel
(Related: Computer, Internet, Word)
"The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together."
- Jon Postel
(Related: People, Internet)
"I think they called me the closest thing to a God of the Internet."
- Jon Postel
(Related: God, Internet)
"There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational."
- Jon Postel
(Related: Government, Internet)
"Years ago when you'd go to a working group most of the people in the working group would be from universities. Now most of the people are from companies who are building internet products and care what the standards turn out to be."
- Jon Postel
(Related: People, Building, Care, Internet, Now, Years)
"I also administer the Internet Assigned Names Authority, which is the central coordinator for the Internet address space, domain names and Internet protocol conventions essential to the use and operation of the Internet."
- Jon Postel
(Related: Authority, Internet, Names, Space)
"I think that audio and video over the internet in the sense of teleconferencing and telephone calls. Maybe we'll actually have picture phone through your work station."
- Jon Postel
(Related: Work, Internet, Sense)
"I love my DSL, but I love my WiFi more. And I probably get on the Internet 40 percent to 50 percent more because of the combination of those technologies."
- Michael K. Powell
(Related: Love, Internet)
"So as I look at transitioning to the communication platforms of the future, I see that the beauty of Internet protocols is you get the separation of the layers between service and technology."
- Michael K. Powell
(Related: Beauty, Technology, Communication, Future, Internet, Separation, Service)
"Unlike the phone system, which is engineered around an application, the Internet layered model allows you to, in essence, separate applications from infrastructure."
- Michael K. Powell
(Related: Internet)
"If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check."
- Dan Quayle
(Related: Internet)
"Since I've got on the Internet, it's opened a whole world of wasted time for me. My wife says she's an Internet widow."
- Mick Ralphs
(Related: Time, Wife, Internet, World)
"Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet."
- Eric S. Raymond
(Related: Beginning, Internet, Linux, Numbers)
"A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet."
- Eric S. Raymond
(Related: Success, Internet)
"For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet."
- Eric S. Raymond
(Related: Home, Power, Time, Development, Environment, First, Internet, Machines, Talking, Unix, Years)
"The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money... But we are not going to buy Yahoo!"
- Sumner Redstone
(Related: Money, Internet)
"In many ways, I think that, while we've been remarkably violent in our media, there's been a real schizophrenia. In private, on the Internet, and on public-affairs shows or talk radio, we're way more explicit than we've ever been."
- Ivan Reitman
(Related: Internet, Media, Public, Talk)
"The Internet's been so great, and it's so nice to have fans do nice, elaborate websites, but I think the downside is some of the things... for real fans to go on and see that 90 percent of the information isn't true or to see pictures that aren't really me."
- Denise Richards
(Related: Fans, Information, Internet)
"I believe 'credibility' is one of the biggest issues yet to be addressed by Internet advertisers."
- Jef I. Richards
(Related: Internet)
"The web site and the Internet are a whole new ball game."
- Johnny Rivers
(Related: Internet)
"I find I use the Internet more and more. It's just an invaluable tool. I do most of my research on the Net now - and certainly do the bulk of my communicating through email."
- Nora Roberts
(Related: Internet, Now, Research)
"It would probably break my heart to hear that people didn't like me. I don't look on the Internet."
- Elisabeth Rohm
(Related: People, Heart, Internet)
"Ambient Devices is what I call part of the Third Wave of Internet devices."
- David Rose
(Related: Internet)
"We are going after a targeted group of businesses that are creating opportunities for themselves using other people's property. The Internet has very little to do with this."
- Hilary Rosen
(Related: People, Internet, Property)
"The exciting new thing, call it Internet.2, would be where links were updated and moved depending on where people click. That would give you the kind of content screening that you don't get at the moment."
- Dave Rowntree
(Related: People, Content, Internet)
"It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies."
- Mike Royko
(Related: Policy, Internet)
"Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost."
- Donald Rumsfeld
(Related: Goodness, Internet, Mouse, Photography, World)
"I do that mostly because I believe that the fantasy business is in terrible trouble right now, for several reasons, not the least of which being the almost Democrat vs. Republican mentality of readers on the Internet."
- R. A. Salvatore
(Related: Business, Being, Fantasy, Internet, Now, Republican, Right, Trouble)
"I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively."
- R. A. Salvatore
(Related: Business, Influence, Internet, Sales)
"Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly."
- R. A. Salvatore
(Related: Work, Competition, Internet, Opinion)
"Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles."
- Paul Samuelson
(Related: Automobiles, Internet, Old, Will)
"I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'."
- Bruce Scheneier
(Related: First, Internet, Security)
"We now assume that when people turn on the evening news, they basically already know what the news is. They've heard it on the radio. They've seen it on the Internet. They've seen it on one of the cable companies. So that makes our job a bit different."
- Bob Schieffer
(Related: People, Evening, Internet, Job, News, Now)
"The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography."
- Phyllis Schlafly
(Related: Internet, Libraries, Now, Pornography, Television)
"The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting."
- Eric Schmidt
(Related: Information, Internet)
"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
(Related: Anarchy, First, Humanity, Internet)
"When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was, that there was infinite variation in how people viewed the world."
- Eric Schmidt
(Related: Thought, People, Being, Infinite, Internet, Publicity, World)
"The Internet and Yahoo are firmly established as 'must buys' for brand advertising."
- Terry Semel
(Related: Advertising, Internet)
"I don't think that Yahoo or any other Internet company should try to become a television network. We will be nowhere if we have to create our own content."
- Terry Semel
(Related: Company, Content, Internet, Network, Television, Will)
"Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws."
- John Shadegg
(Related: Gambling, Internet, Laws, Reform, State)
"You can't trust the internet."
- Nicolette Sheridan
(Related: Trust, Internet)
"But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper."
- Michael Shermer
(Related: Power, Science, Internet, Lies, Open)
"He told me I didn't understand, that we were from the bleak industrial wastes of North England, or something, and that we didn't understand the Internet. I told him Fall fans invented the Internet. They were on there in 1982."
- Mark E. Smith
(Related: EnglFans, Internet)
"You know, the Internets made us more aware of what people think about us."
- Robert Smith
(Related: People)
"I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting."
- Boris Spassky
(Related: Chess, Internet)
"I found out through the Internet that I have AIDS. I learned that I was dead. Where else would I find these things?"
- Layne Staley
(Related: Internet)
"At the bottom, the elimination of spyware and the preservation of privacy for the consumer are critical goals if the Internet is to remain safe and reliable and credible."
- Cliff Stearns
(Related: Goals, Internet, Privacy)
"The seven marvels that best represent man's achievements over the last 2,000 years will be determined by Internet vote... so look for Howard Stern's Private Parts to come in No. 1."
- Jon Stewart
(Related: Internet, Man, Vote, Will, Years)
"The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity."
- Clifford Stoll
(Related: Internet)
"On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us."
- J. Michael Straczynski
(Related: Information, Internet, Will)
"Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination."
- Bob Taft
(Related: Economy, Internet, Jobs, Labor)
"Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward."
- Al Waleed bin Talal
(Related: English, Internet)
"I think there is a difference between Slate and Salon. I think we both serve important functions on the Internet. As more and more Websites disappear, I'm thankful Slate is still around because it makes things less lonely."
- David Talbot
(Related: Difference, Internet, Lonely)
"The great thing about the Internet is that it allows people to find and consume music."
- Andy Taylor
(Related: Music, People, Internet)
"I'm not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic possibility. People can connect with each other. I think people are ready for something, but there is no leadership to offer it to them. People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are part of a world.'"
- Studs Terkel
(Related: Leadership, People, Possibility, Internet, World)
"People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born."
- Linus Torvalds
(Related: People, Feeling, Internet, Projects, Software)
"We'd been noticing how much more important the internet had become - once information is out there in the world now, anyone can get it. Since that was beginning to happen with the record anyway, we figured, OK, let's just stream it for free ourselves."
- Jeff Tweedy
(Related: Beginning, Information, Internet, Now, World)
"We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us."
- Jeff Tweedy
(Related: Music, People, Internet, Listening, Now, World)
"My wife and I had decided not to let anybody take pictures of our home because it was just the last place on earth we had that was unscathed. But people have climbed over the fence; they've taken aerial shots. They've gotten my address and put it on the Internet."
- Steven Tyler
(Related: Home, Wife, People, Earth, Internet)
"The internet is not for sissies."
- Paul Vixie
(Related: Internet)
"The Internet is no longer the kind of thing where only six guys in the world can build it. Now, you can write a couple of checks and get one of your own."
- Paul Vixie
(Related: Internet, Now, World)
"It's as if our electric grid didn't even have fences around it. This is disgraceful what we do, and what we don't do, to protect the Internet."
- Paul Vixie
(Related: Internet)
"With the Internet, kids today learn things quicker than we do and they have everything there is to see, so you have to do more than just remake some old '70s film."
- Donnie Wahlberg
(Related: Film, Internet, Kids, Old, Today)
"Pictures get manipulated, pictures get dropped into accounts. We've asked an internet security firm and a law firm to take a hard look at this to come up with a conclusion about what happened and to make sure it doesn't happen again."
- Anthony Weiner
(Related: Internet, Law, Security)
"Well, there's that girl on the Internet - although this isn't an example of someone who doesn't know they're on - but there's a girl on the Internet who posts one photograph every two minutes from her bedroom."
- Peter Weir
(Related: Example, Internet)
"The Internet is the Viagra of big business."
- Jack Welch
(Related: Business, Internet)
"I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type."
- Jack Welch
(Related: Internet)
"I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology."
- Irvine Welsh
(Related: Technology, Time, Hate, Internet, Want, Writing)
"I also wanted Parker to operate in the Internet age without losing being Parker. He's always operated in the world without really being with the world, and cyberspace means that the rest of us are more and more living the same way."
- Donald E. Westlake
(Related: Age, Being, Internet, Living, Losing, Rest, World)
"So along with several very popular Internet sites, talk radio has served as alternative media that gives listeners information that they otherwise would not hear."
- Paul Weyrich
(Related: Information, Internet, Media, Popular, Talk)
"AT&T will not block access to the public Internet or degrade service, period."
- Edward Whitacre, Jr.
(Related: Internet, Public, Service, Will)
"It is very clear that voice communications is moving on to the Internet. In the end, the price that anyone can provide for voice transmission on the Net will trend toward zero."
- Meg Whitman
(Related: End, Internet, Voice, Will)
"A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn."
- David Wilkerson
(Related: Age, Computer, Internet, Patience, Years)
"Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser."
- Roy H. Williams
(Related: Truth, People, Knowledge, Advertising, Expectations, Giving, Internet, Lies)
"The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself."
- Walter Jon Williams
(Related: Advertising, Community, Internet)
"First, I'd become an avid reader of blogs, especially music blogs, and they seemed to be where the critical-thinking action was at, to have the kind of energy that I associate with rock writing of the 1970s or Internet e-mail discussion lists a decade ago."
- Carl Wilson
(Related: Music, Action, Energy, First, Internet, Writing)
"I got sick and tired of my lady wearing ugly underwear to bed, so I turned to the Internet."
- John Wilson
(Related: Bed, Lady, Internet, Ugly)
"When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run."
- Katarina Witt
(Related: Coffee, Internet)
"There are other options out there, after all, like read a book, go on the Internet, rent a movie."
- Dick Wolf
(Related: Internet, Options)
"I love my little Mac G4 computer and we just had Internet installed on the bus... we all have little Macs actually, there's four of us on the bus, and we all just sit there and surf the Internet!"
- Lee Ann Womack
(Related: Love, Computer, Internet)
"The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing."
- Gary Wright
(Related: Music, Art, Information, Internet)
"I know my name gets used illegally all the time all over the internet. You know, it is a trademarked name, so it will be something that we always have to deal with. I never needed to change it. It was always fine with me. It is a strange name; that's for sure."
- Dweezil Zappa
(Related: Change, Time, Internet, Name, Will)
"Skype is for any individual who has a broadband Internet connection."
- Niklas Zennstrom
(Related: Connection, Internet)
"People need to access Skype wirelessly, no matter where they are, and what happens is that we'll be taking advantage of the rollout of Internet everywhere - WiFi and WiMax in particular."
- Niklas Zennstrom
(Related: People, Internet)
"Then people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the internet."
- Niklas Zennstrom
(Related: People, Internet, Software)
"What we are doing is taking advantage of the broadband Internet to provide basically unlimited free calls to anyone at a higher voice quality than they can with the phone lines."
- Niklas Zennstrom
(Related: Quality, Internet, Voice)
"It is very similar to companies like Google and other internet companies. When you go and search on Google you don't pay for that. But sometimes you click on an advert and Google makes money on that."
- Niklas Zennstrom
(Related: Money, Internet)
"What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people."
- Philip Zimbardo
(Related: Technology, Time, People, Revolution, Internet, Shyness)
"Our belief is that it is a basket of well-diversified companies that are playing the Internet, but are not direct Internet companies."
- John Zimmerman
(Related: Belief, Internet)
"Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world."
- Zhang Ziyi
(Related: Internet, News, Rest, Today, World)