“In the Internet world, both ends essentially pay for access to the Internet system, and so the providers of access get compensated by the users at each end. My big concern is that suddenly access providers want to step in the middle and create a toll road to limit customers' ability to get access to services of their choice even though they have paid for access to the network in the first place.” WorldWantFirstsEndsBigsChoicesAbilityPayStepsMiddleInternetLimitsConcernPaidCustomersAccessUsersTollsProviders Author:Vinton Cerf
“The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me. Everything I've done ends up working in my favor. Even when I make mistakes and people exploit my mistakes on television or on the Internet, and they use it to make fun of me, it's just kind of working in my favor at the end. It's really strange.” PeopleKindEndsDoneUseProblemFunMistakeTelevisionStrangeInternetFavorsMaking MistakesExploitsMy MistakesI Make Mistakes Author:David Hasselhoff
“When you know too much information and you acquire it too easily, you tend to either use it in disagreeable ways, out of vanity, or you tend to be indiscriminate about it. I mean, in the old days, it was tricky, you had to go to various encyclopedias, you had to go to the library, maybe spend a day there, whatever. But in the end, if you found something, it was really exciting. Now you hit a couple of buttons and you get some information. Which, by the way, is almost always presented in that same goddamn mediocre style that characterizes the Internet for me. It is slightly deadening.” IfsKnowsWayMeanEndsUseFoundToo MuchStyleInformationCoupleInternetExcitingLibraryVariousVanityAcquireButtonsMediocreTrickyOld DaysDisagreeableEncyclopediaToo Much Information Author:Norman Mailer
“I think they called me the closest thing to a God of the Internet. But at the end, that article wasn't very complimentary, because the author suggested that I wasn't doing a very good job, and that I ought to be replaced by a "professional." Of course, there isn't any "God of the Internet." The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.” PeopleThinkingEndsTogetherJobsCoursesOughtInternetVery GoodArticlesClosestReplacedGood Job Author:Jon Postel
“The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.” PeopleInspirationalHumansChildrenHas BeensEndsGamesGrowsRaceGrowing UpReaderInternetHuman RaceFree SpeechNuisanceTill The End Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“I've always thought that one of the things that the Internet and the gaming world permits as a narrative technique is to not tell the story from beginning to end - to tell stories sideways, to give alternative possibilities that the reader can, in a way, choose between.” WorldWayGivingEndsStoriesPossibilityReaderInternetTechniqueAlternativesNarrativePermitGamingSideways Author:Salman Rushdie
“In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds.” PeopleMenWorldKindEndsTechnologyCenturyTelevisionIndustryInternetMoonPhonesMedicalAll KindsCellsColourPrimitive20th CenturyCell PhoneOrbitMedical Technology Author:David Gerrold
“In the end, the whole Internet thing kills me, because you can use it as a positive thing or you can read into all the negativity. And I think youve gotta put out positive energy, put out cool viral stuff, and then just stay out of peoples opinions.” ThinkingEndsWholeUseEnergyStuffOpinionInternetNegativityKill MePositive EnergyPositive ThingsViral Author:Nikki Sixx
“There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...); the other was the fact that the century would end.” TwoEndsFactsCenturyParticularIndustryInternetComputerTwo Things Author:Douglas Adams
“The Internet is all about accessing entertainment. Realistically, 50 to 80 percent of all traffic is people downloading stuff for free. If you can turn that huge market share into something that you can monetize, even if it is just with ads, you will end up making more money than with all other revenue streams combined.” PeopleIfsEndsTurnsStuffShareHugeInternetPercentEntertainmentStreamsAdsMore MoneyTrafficRevenue Author:Kim Dotcom
“I love the Internet, and I love wasting time on the Internet - even though it sometimes ends up being not being a waste of time.” EndsSometimesInternetWasteWasting Time Author:Claire Cameron
“When you find yourself on the Internet when you're supposed to be writing, you've already lost. It's even beyond procrastination when you end up on the Internet.” WritingEndsLostInternetSupposed To BeFinding YourselfProcrastination Author:Noah Baumbach
“The big corporations are suddenly taking notice of the web, and their reactions have been slow. Even the computer industry failed to see the importance of the Internet, but that's not saying much. Let's face it, the computer industry failed to see that the century would end.” Has BeensEndsBigsFacesCenturyIndustryInternetComputerImportanceReactionsCorporationsBig Corporations Author:Douglas Adams
“Linking without permission is stealing. Period, end of story.” EndsStoriesInternetPeriodsStealingFree SpeechPermission Author:Mark Cuban
“By the end of the 20th Century there will be a generation to whom it will not be injurious to read a dozen quire of newspapers daily, to be constantly called to the telephone... and to live half their time in a railway carriage or in a flying machine.” EndsHalfGenerationsCenturyInternetMachinesNewspapersFlyingDozenFree Speech20th CenturyTelephonesCarriagesRailwayFlying Machines Author:Max Nordau
“... We have seen dog-tired Members of Congress marching lockstep ahead with their eyes fixed only on the end of the 100 Days of the 1995 Republican 'Contract with America' reform efforts. Many of the changes wrought by the House were passed without the benefit of a single hearing, or at best with a minimal legislative record. Is this what Jefferson and Madison had in mind?” MindEndsEyeAmericaHouseEffortRecordsDogInternetRepublicanMembersBenefitsTiredCongressHearingReformFixedContractsFree SpeechMadison Author:John Gibbons
“I live up in the hills, and I don't have any cable, and I have really slow satellite, so that does it - because being on the Internet is okay, but it takes a long time. I have a prediction that at some point, there will be a backlash. Like at the end of the '60s, there was that back-to-the-land movement, and I'm guessing that people will start consciously saying, "I'm not taking the phone with me," or "I'm only checking email x number of times a day," or "I'm not ever gonna self-Google," for example.” PeopleLongDoeEndsSelfNumbersLandExampleMovementInternetLong TimeOkayPhonesHillsGooglePredictionsEmailCablesGuessingSatellitesBacklash Author:George Saunders
“You have this great big fantasy life, and it looks like a non-stop 24/7 party. But what do you do when you get to the end of the Internet and there's nothing left to buy? There's just a picture of Wayne Newton flipping you off.” LooksEndsBigsLeftPartyFantasyInternetNewtonWayneNon StopFantasy Life Author:Charlie Sheen
“I love the Internet, but it's hard not to get lost in it. It's not like a book where you start and get to the end. It's like we've found a way to encapsulate all of human knowledge within one thing only to learn that you can't do that. It's an overabundance of information.” WayHumansBookEndsHardFoundLostOne ThingInformationInternetHuman KnowledgeOverabundance Author:Jarvis Cocker
“Television is very much like the motion picture; you need high-end product that will first go on broadcast or cable and eventually on the Internet, and then the lifespan of this content being distributed worldwide.” NeedsFirstsEndsTelevisionProductsGoes OnInternetCablesMotion Pictures Author:Michael Eisner
“If you took the entire internet and laid it end to end, it would weigh more than the other thing. It would weigh more than it would if it wasn't laid end to end. Like, if it was a ball of rolled up internet it would weigh less. I'm pretty sure. It depends on the size of the scale, I think.” IfsThinkingEndsDependsInternetBallsSizeScales Author:Marissa Mayer
“The Internet is light at the end of the tunnel. I don't care if it's being used to peddle pornography, I don't care if it's being trivialized in a thousand ways. Anything can be trivialized. The important point is that it is leveling the playing field of global society. It is creating de-facto an entirely new set of political realities. None of the constipated, oligarchic structures that are resisting this were ever asked. Their greed betrayed them into investing in this in the first place without ever fully grasping what the implications of it were for their larger agenda.” IfsWayFirstsImportantEndsRealityLightCarePoliticalUsedFieldsInternetThousandCreatingStructureGreedInvestingDon't CareI Don't CareAgendasBetrayedPornographyImplicationsTunnelsResistingGraspingPlaying FieldsLight At The End Of The TunnelEnd Of The Tunnel Author:Terence McKenna
“I never thought I'd end up as a computer freak, but that's how the cookie crumbles. I do spend a lot of my time on the Internet, and often check out the different E-zines on the web, especially if something Iron Savior related is going down.” IfsDifferentEndsInternetComputerChecksRelatedMy TimeIronSaviorFreakCookiesZines Author:Yenz Leonhardt
“Hatemongers like Media Matters take innocent statements like mine, Rush Limbaugh's, John Gibson's, and Bill O'Reilly's and make them offensive by posting them on the Internet, allowing the general public to hear words that were meant for people who already agree with us. Hey, Media Matters, you want to end offensive speech? Then stop recording it for people who would be offended.” PeopleWantEndsMatterWould BeMediaMinesInternetSpeechAgreeBillsStatementsInnocentHeyAllowingOffensiveOffendedGeneral PublicBill O Reilly Author:Stephen Colbert
“I regret that after 30 years of writing columns in this market, including ten with this newspaper that I love very much, this local conversation has come to an end. However, I believe that if the newspapers of the country pool their resources, we can send an Arnold-Schwartzenegger-style robot back in time to kill the inventor of the Internet, and then our future will be much brighter.” IfsWritingYearsBelieveEndsCountryI BelieveStyleRegretInternetTenConversationResourcesIncludingNewspapersLocalsOur FuturePoolRobotsInventorBrighterColumnsI RegretBack In TimeTime To Kill Author:James Lileks
“There are other dimensions of biotechnology. If you think of biotechnology like the Internet, it's not a category - it's an infrastructure that can be deployed to sustain or disrupt. In health care, the most complex problems at the high end have to be dealt with in a problem-solving mode by the best, most experienced physicians you can find.” IfsThinkingEndsProblemCareInternetComplexesHealth CareDimensionsCategoriesProblem SolvingPhysiciansInfrastructureComplex ProblemsBiotechnology Author:Clayton Christensen
“In the early days of the Internet, the word "navigation" had this ingrained in it. There really was a sensation of the cyber-flâneur, as you really would have no idea where you would end up. You would end up on pages that had nothing to do with what you wanted, experiences that were totally unanticipated. You had to connect the dots, connect the parcels of your experience. It was totally open to randomness.” IdeasEndsWantedInternetPagesNo IdeaSensationsDotsCyberRandomnessNavigationParcel Author:Sergio Chejfec
“I think the way design was practiced for most of the 20th century was very declarative. A designer came up with a solution for a project and put it in place and shipped the solution and it landed in a reader or a customer's hands as a brochure. They would see it as a poster, or as a piece of signage. And that was sort of it. That was the end of it. I think Internet technology has really upended that whole equation because in some ways a designer's work is never really done online.” ThinkingWayEndsDoneWholeHandsTechnologyPiecesCenturyDesignReaderInternetProjectsSolutionsCustomersDesignerOnline20th CenturyEquationsPostersInternet TechnologyBrochures Author:Khoi Vinh
“You can feel a little vulnerable when you see people tearing you apart on the internet or saying, "It's the end of music." "This guy is a total hack." I've read it all. But at the same time, even though I feel a little vulnerable with that, I do feel comfortable.” PeopleFeelsLittlesEndsGuyInternetComfortableVulnerableThis GuyHacks Author:Girl Talk
“The internet can be enormously helpful, just like books can, but I don't think it's the be all and end all for really practicing Buddhism. At a certain point, as with learning any skill, we need personal instruction from someone who is more advanced than us.” ThinkingNeedsBookEndsCertainBuddhismInternetSkillsHelpfulInstruction Author:Tenzin Palmo
“If I didn't end up talking about the things that I care about, I wouldn't be myself. I didn't like the idea that I would be a different person on the internet than I would be in real life. And I see people struggling. I see people who face prejudice and people who feel invisible. And I recognize that I already have a built-in platform that I can utilize so easily to actually do something.” PeopleIfsFeelsPersonsI CanIdeasDifferentRealEndsWould BeCareFacesTalkingStruggleInternetBuiltPrejudiceReal LifeInvisiblePlatformsI Care Author:Amandla Stenberg
“I can't understand how some bands are criticized for doing something different and other bands are rewarded for doing things different. At the end of the day, I throw my hands up in the air and say, "F**k it." I've come to accept that no matter what we do, there's going to be somebody out there on the Internet that says it's a piece of s**t and somebody who says they really like it. That's happened with every single album we've put out.” I CanDifferentEndsMatterHandsAcceptingPiecesHappenedAirInternetBandNo Matter WhatAlbumsThe End Of The DayHands UpUp In The Air Author:Jim James
“At the end of the day, the internet is a fair space. A medium of infinite resource. And something we've never had before, ever. But people aren't connecting the dots, and that's what scares me.” PeopleEndsSpaceInternetResourcesFairsInfiniteMediumsThe End Of The DayScareConnectingDotsConnecting The Dots Author:Eli Russell Linnetz