“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.” ThinkingStillsImportantLiteratureDifferencesInternetLonelyFunctionDisappearWebsiteSlateSalons Author:David Talbot
“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.” ThinkingWayImportantBigsGovernmentDifficultIssuesInternetTaxesTaxationThink Big Author:Milton Friedman
“With the Internet and social media being a huge part of today's culture, I think it's super important to promote staying smart online.” ThinkingImportantTodayCultureSocialMediaHugeInternetSmartSocial MediaStayingOnline Author:G. Hannelius
“If you have a business website; make it stickier; redo the merchandising often and try new things until you hit the right homepage...then try and beat that. The most important audience drivers on the internet are paid search and key word optimization. Concentrate on those. They are very inexpensive compared to banner advertising.” IfsTryingImportantAudienceKeysInternetBeatsPaidAdvertisingDriversNew ThingsWebsiteBannerInexpensiveOptimizationMerchandisingRedos Author:Lynda Resnick
“I think future generations will see the invention of the Internet as having been as important as the invention of the printing press. It’s the democratizing tool of all tools. As long as no one can control the flow of information, then freedom always has a chance.” ThinkingLongImportantChanceGenerationsInformationInternetFlowToolsPressesInventionFuture GenerationPrintingPrinting Press Author:Marianne Williamson
“The quintessential exercise of free speech in a culture supposedly built on that concept and dedicated to it, the Internet's development is as historically important to humanity perhaps even more so as Gutenberg 's invention of the printing press.” ImportantHumanityCultureDevelopmentInternetExerciseSpeechConceptsBuiltPressesInventionDedicatedFree SpeechPrintingPrinting PressQuintessentialGutenberg Author:L. Neil Smith
“[The Internet] is by far the most important innovation in the media in my lifetime. It's like having a huge encyclopedia permanently available. There's a tremendous amount of rubbish on the world wide web, but retrieval of what you want to so rapid that it doesn't really matter” WorldWantImportantMatterMediaHugeAmountInternetInnovationLifetimeAvailableWideWhat You WantRapidsRubbishEncyclopediaWorld Wide Web Author:Richard Dawkins
“During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.” ImportantCountryStatesWholeFunnyMovingGrowthUnitedUnited StatesEconomicInternetCreatingEnvironmentalCongressEducationalProtectionImprovementMoving ForwardOur CountryRangeInitiativeProvenEconomic GrowthGoreEducational SystemEnvironmental Protection Author:Al Gore
“The videos are sometimes the only way for people across the country and different places to see and hear the music. They may not get the same radio stations or they don't get the same TV channels, they don't have the same MTV that plays the same music. People will use to the Internet and that's why YouTube and stuff like that is so important.” PeopleWayMayImportantDifferentCountrySometimesPlayUseStuffTvsInternetRadioVideoStationsYoutubeDifferent PlaceMtvRadio Stations Author:Kid Ink
“I sense an insatiable demand for connectivity. Maybe all these people have discovered important uses for the Internet. Perhaps some of them feel hungry for a community that our real neighborhoods don't deliver. At least a few must wonder what the big deal is.” PeopleFeelsImportantRealUseBigsCommunityDealsWonderInternetDemandHungryNeighborhoodBig DealInsatiable Author:Clifford Stoll
“It's tough because sometimes you'll just be on the web and things pop up or you get emailed something from a friend. It is definitely impossible to avoid stuff about me sometimes, but it's pretty important to try. It's very rare that things are true about yourself that are on the Internet. It's just sad sometimes. So you definitely try and stay away from it as much as possible.” TryingImportantSometimesStuffImpossibleInternetToughPopsAbout Yourself Author:Taylor Lautner
“The most important thing for people to understand is that the basic rule that people have a right to send information over the Internet - even when they are using a wireless device - is part of the framework.” PeopleImportantInformationInternetImportant ThingsDevicesFrameworkWireless Author:Julius Genachowski
“Defending ourselves from internet-based attacks, internet-originated attacks, is much, much more important than our ability to launch attacks against similar targets in foreign countries.” ImportantCountryAbilityInternetTargetForeign Countries Author:Edward Snowden
“It's important to remember when you start doing things like attacking hospitals through the internet, when you start attacking things like internet exchange points, when something goes wrong, people can die. If a hospital's infrastructure is affected, lifesaving equipment turns off.” PeopleIfsImportantRememberDiesTurnsInternetAffectedHospitalsEquipmentRemember WhenInfrastructureAttackingTurn Off Author:Edward Snowden
“In a Time/CNN poll of 1,000 Americans conducted last week by Yankelovich Partners, two-thirds said it was more important to protect the privacy of phone calls than to preserve the ability of police to conduct wiretaps. When informed about the Clipper Chip, 80% said they opposed it.” SaidTwoImportantLastsAbilityWeekInternetProtectThirdsPolicePhonesPartnersPreservesPrivacyFree SpeechChipsPollsPhone CallsCnn Author:Philip Elmer-DeWitt
“I think anything which promotes heterogeneity on the Internet promotes stability. Diversity in services, service providers, and separating the layers of the networking stack are all important.” ThinkingImportantInternetDiversityStabilityLayersNetworkingSeparatingProvidersService Providers Author:David Ulevitch
“Search, which is extremely important, represents about 5% of the page views on the Internet and 40% of the revenue. So, highly monetized.” ImportantViewsInternetPagesRevenue Author:Terry Semel
“I love that I can stay connected with my fans and be able to tell them what's going on - their opinions are so important to me. But at the same time, it's very weird. I think the Internet can be a great thing but also really evil. Something can instantly hurt your feelings.” ThinkingI CanImportantFeelingsAbleEvilHurtOpinionFansInternetConnectedGreat Things Author:Selena Gomez
“As the day goes on you get more and more tired. Even if people say they're afternoon people or evening people, it's always best to start out first thing in the morning with your most important task as opposed to your email, phone calls, or checking the internet. If you start out with that then basically you'll just do that all day long.” PeopleIfsFirstsLongImportantMorningGoes OnInternetTasksTiredPhonesEveningAfternoonEmailPhone Calls Author:Brian Tracy
“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.” PeopleImportantNumbersInternetInvolvedMeetingsDiscussionClueGovernanceDiscussingLarge NumbersGood Governance Author:Steve Crocker
“The Internet has become important on the world's stage.” WorldImportantStageInternet Author:Steve Crocker
“Being on the road, the Internet enables me to interact with people in some way. It's not so much interacting with my fans - it's about doing something with what I have. I have my camera and I have my computer, and if I have some spare time, rather than watching some mindless bullshit pop-idol program on TV, why not show people my pictures and try and discuss things that I feel are important?” PeopleIfsWayFeelsTryingImportantShowsFansTvsInternetComputerProgramCamerasPopsWhy NotIdolsBullshitSparesMindlessInteractingSpare Time Author:Lily Allen
“Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.” ImportantPastStuffProcessWorryToo MuchInternetAccustomedNot WorryingWorrying Too Much Author:Larry Wall
“Given that there are seven billion people living on this earth, there is a consistent quantity of imbecile or idiot, okay. Previously, these people could express themselves only with their friends or at the bar after two or three glasses of something, and they said every silliness, and people laughed. Now they have the possibility to show up on the internet. And so, on the internet, along with the messages of a lot of interesting and important people - even the Pope is writing on Twitter - we have a great quantity of idiots.” PeopleWritingSaidTwoImportantShowsEarthThreeGivenInterestingPossibilityInternetMessagesOkaySevenGlassesBillionsBarsIdiotConsistentLaughedQuantityPopeThey SaidLiving OnImbecilesSilliness Author:Umberto Eco
“A great problem of the internet is how to filter information, how to discard what is not relevant or what is silly and to keep only the important information.” ImportantProblemInformationInternetSillyRelevantFilters Author:Umberto Eco
“I could not write my books without the library's help. Even with the ease of Internet research, I find books to be indispensable when I am writing. ... Books make me laugh, cry, and think. They give me insight into history, and into the lives of people in other cultures. They help me make important decisions, and they provide endless entertainment. Hooray for libraries!” PeopleThinkingGivingWritingImportantBookHelpingCultureDecisionLaughingCryInternetResearchGive MeLibraryEntertainmentInsightEndlessEaseHelp MeIndispensableWriting A BookMake Me LaughOther CulturesImportant Decisions Author:Peg Kehret
“The Internet is a bastion of negativity, and we get to sit there and voice our cute, little, important opinions.” LittlesImportantVoiceOpinionInternetCuteNegativity Author:Roger Craig Smith
“The internet has spawned people for whom knowingness is more important than knowledge. It equips you with the illusion of offering knowledge instantly - and quite easily - so you can read a few articles on a few subjects and feel well informed but not actually know any of those subjects in any depth.” PeopleKnowsFeelsWellsImportantSubjectsInternetIllusionDepthArticlesOffering Author:Pankaj Mishra
“If you'd asked me in 1980 what the big impact of microprocessors would be, I probably would have missed the PC. If you asked me in 1990 what was important, I probably would have missed the Internet.” IfsImportantBigsWould BeInternetImpactBig ImpactMicroprocessor Author:Gordon Moore
“But it is as silly to think about peer-to-peer as applying just to music as it would have been to think about the Internet as applying just to pornography. Whatever the initial use of the technology, it has nothing to do with the potential of the architecture to serve many other extremely important functions.” ThinkingHas BeensImportantUseTechnologyInternetFunctionArchitectureSillyPeersPornographyInitials Author:Lawrence Lessig
“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 realized that we're now at a point of self-reference with the Internet culture that there's almost no there left, you know? It's important to make new things. It's important to make culture, rather than simply reference it. I love a good cultural reference, and it's one of the great joys in my life, but it has to all be in balance with the core job, which is to make something new. And that sort of brings me around to why I started talking about my fondness for marijuana.” KnowsImportantSelfJobsJoyCultureLeftTalkingInternetBalanceI RealizedCoreSomething NewMarijuanaNew ThingsGreat JoyFondnessInternet Culture Author:John Hodgman
“When I was in college, I remember thinking to myself, this internet thing is awesome because you can look up anything you want, you can read news, you can download music, you can watch movies, you can find information on Google, you can get reference material on Wikipedia, except the thing that is most important to humans, which is other people, was not there.” PeopleThinkingWantHumansLooksImportantRememberWatchesInformationCollegeMaterialsInternetNewsLook UpGoogleWikipediaDownloadsWatch Movie Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.” PeopleThinkingImportantSoundInternetCdsMusic LoveVinyl Author:Norah Jones
“Net neutrality is the principle that the service providers who control or access, who own the pipes, should not favor some content over another. It's, you know, an even playing field for stuff on the Internet, and, you know, I think it's very important to the medium that it have a rough quality among contents. Everyone has their shot.” ThinkingKnowsShouldImportantStuffQualityPrinciplesFieldsInternetShotsAccessFavorsMediumsRoughPipeNeutralityPlaying FieldsProvidersService ProvidersNet Neutrality Author:Tim Wu
“What's really important about WikiLeaks is that the Russian government has engaged in espionage against Americans. They have hacked American websites, American accounts of private people, of institutions. Then they have given that information to WikiLeaks for the purpose of putting it on the Internet.” PeopleImportantGovernmentPurposeGivenInformationInternetAccountsInstitutionsEngagedWebsiteEspionageWikileaksHackedRussian Government Author:Hillary Clinton
“All the shows are immediately on the Internet, on Instagram, on Twitter, it's huge. Everything is live now, and for fashion, it's very important. It's not that it's good or bad, it's just like that and it's not going to change so we have to adapt to it.” ImportantShowsFashionHugeInternetInstagram Author:Delphine Arnault
“New generations are intoxicated with the idea that they can make their presence known on the Internet. When I was young, there wasn't anything comparable. Very few got their picture in a magazine, fewer made records. We have to stand back and let them get their footing. Hopefully they'll come to the realization that the most important thing is their work and how they conduct themselves.” MadeImportantIdeasYoungKnownRecordsGenerationsInternetImportant ThingsMagazinesRealizationHopefullyFewerNew GenerationIntoxicated Author:Patti Smith
“I think it is important to be aware that the Internet has replaced the television, and has become a place where the uniformity of human society is accelerated.” ThinkingHumansImportantTelevisionInternetReplacedHuman SocietyUniformity Author:Yasumasa Morimura
“The most important thing in the professional wrestling industry in this day and age of technology and the Internet and social media is to be able to make wrestling unpredictable.” ImportantAgeAbleSocialTechnologyMediaIndustryInternetImportant ThingsSocial MediaThis DayWrestlingUnpredictableProfessional Wrestling Author:Matt Hardy
“Magazines in the traditional sense were aggregators of novelty. A good magazine was a lot of novelty, stuff you've never heard of before, clearly aggregated by people who have been able to travel further and dig deeper than you have been able to do. And that used to be really an important source of stuff for me. And now it is less important because the Internet has eaten it all up. But my Twitter feed as an aggregator of novelty is like... I don't know what I would do if it became any more powerful, I would have to start reining it in somehow.” PeopleImportantPowerfulInternetDig Deep Author:William Gibson
“Well, I think it's important to keep things secretive because what's happened so much is the press competes with each other to put as much information out there as they can and sometimes it can be very damaging to the films to have the stories leaked or certain plot details. I think it's important to have something remain secretive for the audience and something special for the audience so there aren't spoilers all over the internet.” ThinkingImportantSometimesFilmAudienceSpecialInternetSecretive Author:Wally Pfister
“Social media is important, but it does not bring down governments. Governments can shut down the Internet. Governments can control media access. If they do what the Tunisians did and try and negotiate with the opposition, then the media's still open, the international community can learn what's happening in the country, and then that can provide inspiration. But in mid-2009, the Iranian regime just shut down the Internet. Facebook went dark. Twitter went dark. BBC Persian, Voice of America, Persian News Network all went dark. That was it.” TryingImportantCountryInspirationCommunityDarkInternetSocial MediaIranianPersian Author:Ilan Berman
“Book culture has also become something that's kind of incredible to younger people now, because of the Internet. If you go to any of the book fairs - PS1 or the MOCA Book Fair - none of the people are over the age of 40 years old there, and they trade and buy books, because they're almost antiquities at this point. They're not really important, in a way, because the Internet is how information is taken in.” PeopleKindImportantBookAgeCultureTakenInternetTradeIncredibles Author:Jim Walrod
“Today, 90% of terrorist activity on the Internet takes place using social networking tools, be it independent bulletin boards. The most important terrorist communiques and videos are virtually all initially released on certain password-protected chat forums run by Al-Qaida supporters. These forums act as a virtual firewall to help safeguard the identities of those who participate, and they offer subscribers a chance to make direct contact with terrorist representatives, to ask questions, and even to contribute and help out the cyber jihad.” ImportantHelpingRunningTodayChanceIdentityInternetDirectIndependentTerroristSupporterSocial NetworkingSocial NetworkJihad Author:Evan Kohlmann
“I feel like the internet has encouraged people to look into things and try to find issuesthat because people have a lot of opinions. I think it's really important to encourage artistic freedom. I think if you inhibit that, that could be dangerous.” PeopleThinkingTryingImportantOpinionDangerousInternetArtistic Author:Sofia Coppola
“I think China thinks information technology is less important than we think it is in the US, economically, and more important politically. And so Chinese internet companies are extremely political, they're protected behind the great firewall of China, and investment in Alibaba is good as long as Jack Ma stays in the good graces of the Chinese communist party. Alibaba is largely copying various business models from the US; they have combined some things in interesting new ways, but I think it's fundamentally a business that works because of the political protection you get in China.” ThinkingLongImportantPoliticalInterestingPartyTechnologyGraceInternetInvestmentVariousProtectionChineseCommunistInformation Technology Author:Peter Thiel
“I don't use "feelings" as a diminutive word. I'm trying to take feelings back. I think of everyone on the internet whose response to everything is: "#Feelings! This is important, this is real, this is significant!" That connects to power, too. Wanting to feel like you have power and control over your life.” ThinkingTryingImportantRealFeelingsLike YouInternetResponseSignificantOver You Author:Melissa Gira Grant
“One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation.” WritingKindI CanImportantWholeUseRunningSeriousInternetComputerProgramInnovationPlatformsBrakeDownloads Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“I myself feel that it is very important that my ISP supplies internet to my house like the water company supplies water to my house. It supplies connectivity with no strings attached.” FeelsImportantHouseWaterCompanyInternetStringsSuppliesStrings AttachedNo Strings Attached Author:Tim Berners-Lee