Best Browsers Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If I were to wish for two things, they would be as much bandwidth as possible and ridiculously fast browser engines.”

Ifs Two Would Be Wish Two Things Engines Browsers Bandwidth

“I continue to meet people who have had their Web pages hijacked, their browsers corrupted, in some cases, their children exposed to inappropriate material from these dangerous programs hidden in their family computers.”

People Children Cases Dangerous Materials Computer Pages Program Exposed Inappropriate Browsers Web Page

Author:Cliff Stearns

“Right now Bitcoin feels like the Internet before the browser.”

Feels Internet Right Now Bitcoin Browsers

Author:Wences Casares

“A good browser, apps, good camera, and fast networking in your smartphone is just expected today.”

Today Cameras Expected Networking Apps Smartphones Browsers

Author:Thorsten Heins

“There may be 300,000 apps for the iPhone and iPad, but the only app you really need is the browser. You don't need an app for the web ... You don't need to go through some kind of SDK ... You can use your web tools ... And you can publish your apps to the BlackBerry without writing any native code.”

Needs Writing Kind May Use Tools Code Native Publish Iphone Apps Ipads Blackberries Browsers

Author:Jim Balsillie

“If you find you are not understanding my explaination for a joke, hit F5 on your browser and the page will refresh and I will explain it again.”

Ifs Understanding Pages Jokes Browsers

Author:Ryan North

“The fundamental deficiency in HTML is that it reduces hypertext and the intertwinedness of human communication to a question of how it is rendered and what happens when you click on it. ... HTML is to the browser what PostScript is to the laser printer.”

Humans Happens Communication Fundamentals Clicks Deficiency Lasers Printer Browsers Html

Author:Erik Naggum

“There's no denying that the way horror has been packaged in the past has done it no favours. Lurid black covers adorned with skulls, corpses crawling with insects and scantily clad maidens being chewed into by vampires -- all good clean fun, but it doesn't do much to give the genre an air of respectability or seriousness to the casual browser.”

Way Giving Has Beens Done Past Fun Black Air Horror Clean Vampire Genre Favour Insects Corpses Casual Seriousness Skulls Maidens Crawling Respectability Browsers

Author:Tim Lebbon

“To a writer, an open browser tab is like a glass of whiskey. 1 or 2 can help the work. Too many ensures that nothing gets done.”

Done Helping Glasses Whiskey Browsers

Author:Andy Ihnatko

“Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize its the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?”

Men World Games Social Realizing Huge Farming Networking Social Networking Browsers

Author:Randall Munroe

“It's not Big Brother that we now have to be afraid of, but Big Browser.”

Bigs Brother Internet Free Speech Browsers

Author:Eliot Spitzer

“What I saw quite clearly in the '80s, before the internet, was that the whole world was shifting toward digital formats, and that didn't matter whether it's movies or writing or whatever. It was something that was coming. And with the invention of the World Wide Web in the early '90s, when we were teaching our first courses, or the arrival of the internet by way of the browser, which opened up the internet to everybody - soon it was just revolutionary.”

World Way Writing Firsts Matter Whole Courses Saws Teaching Internet Wide Invention Whole World Revolutionary Digital 80s Shifting Arrivals Format World Wide Web Browsers

Author:Robert Coover

“I just have to be super strong when it comes to my work time. Shut the browser, ignore the email alerts, and just WRITE.”

Writing Strong Email Browsers

Author:Sarah Dessen

“Sometimes I get scared that I’m going to enter a web address into Twitter thinking it was my browser. That would be bad.”

Thinking Sometimes Would Be Scared Addresses Browsers

Author:John Mayer

“The search button on the browser no longer provides an objective search, but a commercial one.”

Objectives Buttons Browsers

Author:Tim Berners-Lee

“Any machine that can run a browser is not thin. The browser has to be the thickest application man has ever invented, and it's getting thicker faster than anything ever development by man.”

Men Running Development Machines Faster Application Browsers

Author:Bill Gates

“I went to a website the other day and right at the top of the page it showed me my ip address. It was the most disturbing moment I have ever experienced. This website even told me what internet browser I was using, and what day it was. Computers can do anything.”

Moments Can Do Internet Computer Pages Addresses Disturbing Website Browsers

Author:Edward Snowden

“The high-ceilinged rooms, the little balconies, alcoves, nooks and angles all suggest sanctuary, escape, creature comfort. The reader, the scholar, the browser, the borrower is king.”

Littles Rooms Reader Kings Comfort Creatures Scholar Angle Sanctuary Balconies Borrowers Browsers Creature Comforts

Author:David McCord

“This is exactly how the World Wide Web works: the HTML files are the pithy description on the paper tape, and your Web browser is Ronald Reagan.”

World Paper Wide Description Tape Files World Wide Web Browsers Html Pithy

Author:Neal Stephenson

“My question is what non-Microsoft browsers were you concerned about in January of 1996.”

Concerned Microsoft January Browsers

Author:David Boies

“Steve Jobs was notoriously blunt about products he found wanting, but his attack on Flash - Adobe's popular technology for playing multimedia content inside a browser - was particularly vicious. Claiming it was buggy and insecure, Jobs banned it from the iPad.”

Jobs Found Technology Products Flash Insecure Vicious Blunt Banned Ipads Browsers Multimedia

Author:Evgeny Morozov

“If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn’t hassle a browser – and steal the contents of books by reading them. I drank down 1984 while loitering in the 'O' section of the giant Heffers store in Cambridge. When I was full I carried the slopping vessel of my attention carefully out of the shop.”

Ifs Book Enough Bigs Reading Memories Attention Stores Stealing Giants Shops Staff Sections Vessel Drank Cambridge Bookshops Hassle Browsers

Author:Francis Spufford

“I'd sit at my kitchen table and start scanning help-wanted ads on my laptop, but then a browser tab would blink and I'd get distracted and follow a link to a long magazine article about genetically modified wine grapes. Too long, actually, so I'd add it to my reading list. Then I'd follow another link to a book review. I'd add the review to my reading list, too, then download the first chapter of the book—third in a series about vampire police. Then, help-wanted ads forgotten, I'd retreat to the living room, put my laptop on my belly, and read all day. I had a lot of free time.”

Source: Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore

“We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993( filing its first court responses to federal antitrust)”

Firsts Court Response Microsoft Integrating Filing Operating Systems Browsers Antitrust

Author:Bill Gates

“Software companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry should be doing right now to fix things, and I don't know why they haven't been done yet.”

Knows Should Done Responsibility Company Technology Security Havens Industry Right Now Holes Software Mail Clients Straightforward Doing Right Browsers Software Company

Author:Tim Berners-Lee

“Convenient though it would be if it were true, Mozilla [Netscape 1.0] is not big because it's full of useless crap. Mozilla is big because your needs are big. Your needs are big because the Internet is big. There are lots of small, lean web browsers out there that, incidentally, do almost nothing useful. But being a shining jewel of perfection was not a goal when we wrote Mozilla.”

Ifs Needs Bigs Would Be Goal Internet Perfection Shining Useless Programming Crap Jewels Convenient Browsers Mozilla

Author:Jamie Zawinski

“In direct navigation, users type exactly what they are looking for in the browser's web address field. This could be the exact domain name or web address. Millions of people do this, emphasizing the need for on- and off-line marketing and branding.”

People Needs Names Lines Millions Fields Type Direct Marketing Addresses Users Branding Domain And Off Navigation Browsers Domain Names

Book:Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet

Source: Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet

“Every really good creative person in advertising has always had two noticeable characteristics. First, there was no subject he could not easily get interested in...Second, he was an extensive browser in all sorts of fields of information. For it is with the advertising man as with the cow: no browsing, no milk.”

Men Firsts Persons Two Creative Subjects Information Fields Advertising Characteristics Milk Cows Be Creative Creative Person Browsers Browsing

Author:James Webb Young

“In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it.”

Knows Difficult Pages Flavor Readership Browsers Web Page Html

Author:Tim Berners-Lee

“I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly”

Reason Economy Building Reason Why Monopoly Microsoft Operating Systems Browsers

Author:Steve Wozniak

“I just became one with my browser software.”

Computer Software Browsers

Author:Bill Griffith

“If you can use a Web browser, you can use Skype.”

Ifs Use Skype Browsers

Author:Niklas Zennstrom

“The average consumer does not know the difference between browser, Internet and search box.”

Knows Doe Differences Internet Average Boxes Consumers Browsers

Author:Mitchell Baker

“Remember, the web isn't about control. If a visitor to your site is familiar with using a browser's native form doodad, you won't be doing them any favors if you override the browser functionality with your own widget, even if you think your widget looks better.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Remember Form Design Favors Familiar Native Site Visitors Functionality Browsers

Book:HTML5 for Web Designers

Source: HTML5 for Web Designers

“The Internet "browser"... is the piece of software that puts a message on your computer screen informing you that the Internet is currently busy and you should try again later.”

Should Trying Pieces Internet Computer Messages Busy Screens Software Try Again Informing Computer Screen Browsers

Author:Dave Barry

“...your Web browser is Ronald Reagan.”

Design Software Software Design Browsers

Author:Neal Stephenson

“Cookbooks, it should be stressed, do not belong in the kitchen at all. We keep them there for the sake of appearances; occasionally, we smear their pages together with vibrant green glazes or crimson compotes, in order to delude ourselves, and any passing browsers, that we are practicing cooks; but in all honesty, a cookbook is something you read in the living room, or in the bathroom, or in bed.”

Should Together Order Rooms Honesty Bed Pages Green Sake Appearance Passing Passings Cooks Kitchen Bathroom Stressed Living Room Cookbook Crimson Browsers

Book:Nobody's Perfect: Writings from The New Yorker

Source: Nobody's Perfect: Writings from The New Yorker

“Day by day, the number of devices, platforms, and browsers that need to work with your site grows. Responsive web design represents a fundamental shift in how we'll build websites for the decade to come.”

Needs Grows Numbers Design Fundamentals Decades Devices Platforms Site Website Web Design Browsers

Author:Jeffrey Veen

“People notice it and they help you participate and see your work included in this project and when we ship our browser, you and millions of other people get to see the fruits of your efforts.”

People Helping Effort Millions Projects Fruit Ships Browsers

Author:Mitchell Baker

“What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes.”

World Numbers Fit Standards Wide Handle Corny World Wide Web Browsers

Author:Ted Nelson

“The diversity of web browsers tomorrow will match the diversity of ink browsers (aka paper) today”

Today Internet Tomorrow Paper Diversity Ink Browsers Aka

Author:Bill Buxton

“Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.”

Littles Reading Chance Written Computer Pages Labels Yearning Documents Old Days Slap Processors Browsers Web Page

Author:Tim Berners-Lee

“I think we're proving ourselves as we go along. The past several months our strategy has been evolutionary - making maximum advantage of our client browser, as well as our enterprise software for people who want to build Web sites.”

People Thinking Want Wells Has Beens Past Months Prove Advantage Strategy Enterprise Software Clients Site Maximum Browsers

Author:James L. Barksdale

“Once you understand that everybody's going to get connected, a lot of things follow from that. If everybody gets the Internet, they end up with a browser, so they look at web pages - but they can also leave comments, create web pages. They can even host their own server! So not only is everybody consuming, they can also produce.”

Ifs Looks Ends Produce Internet Pages Connected Comment Host Consuming Server Browsers Web Page

Author:Marc Andreessen

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