“When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist, and we didn't need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.” NeedsWritingFirstsShowsWorryTelevisionTvsInternetOnlineTv ShowsSeventiesEightyWebsiteBlockbuster Author:Al Franken
“Radio and TV can still push a band, but things need to be shaken up. There is the Internet, but mostly what I see there is little kids on YouTube playing music.” NeedsLittlesStillsKidsTvsInternetBandRadioLittle KidYoutubePlaying Music Author:Chris Cornell
“Any business that is looking for new customers needs to understand the Internet and how to market their goods or services through it.” NeedsInternetCustomersGoods Author:Eric Lefkofsky
“The next generation of innovators, who need neutrality the most, are not at the bargaining table. They're hard at work in their labs or classrooms, dreaming of the next big thing, and hoping that the Internet is as open to them as it was to the founders of Google.” NeedsHardDreamBigsNextGenerationsInternetTablesClassroomFoundersGoogleBig ThingsNext GenerationLabsInnovatorsNeutralityBargaining Author:Edward Felten
“If you are deaf, you need captions for spoken elements. If you are blind, you need voiced descriptions of Web contents and spoken renderings of e-mail. The range of physical disabilities is very large, and we need many different tools to overcome the consequential barriers to Internet use. Let us commit ourselves to truly assuring that the Internet really is for everyone.” IfsNeedsDifferentUseInternetElementsToolsOvercomingBlindCommitRangeDescriptionBarriersDisabilityMailBlindnessDeafRenderingCaptionWeb Content Author:Vinton Cerf
“Search marketing, and most Internet marketing in fact, can be very threatening because there are no rules. There’s no safe haven. To do it right, you need to be willing to be wrong. But search marketing done right is all about being wrong. Experimentation is the only way. No one really knows whether that page will rank #1 in Google; no one really knows which paid search copy will get the highest click rate. Even experts can’t tell you which content will attract the most links. You just have to try it and see.” KnowsWayNeedsTryingDoneFactsHavensWillingInternetSafeHighestPagesPaidRateMarketingExpertsCopiesLinksGoogleThreateningClicksExperimentationBeing WrongSafe HavenInternet Marketing Author:Mike Moran
“The Internet has no such organization - files are made available at random locations. To search through this chaos, we need smart tools, programs that find resources for us.” NeedsMadeInternetSmartResourcesProgramToolsOrganizationChaosAvailableLocationFiles Author:Clifford Stoll
“whenever I encountered a slide show titled 'Eight Diet Foods That Pack on the Pounds' or 'Celebrity Fashion Fails,' I'd have to stop and investigate because hey, it might be information I'd need in some unforeseeable future where I had become, for some reason, a fat celebrity.” NeedsReasonShowsMightFailingFashionInformationInternetEightFatsHeyDietsPoundsPacksSlides Author:Merrill Markoe
“Probably the best explanation for my success and other Internet writers, is that we're tapping a genre or a niche out there that needs to be filled and isn't.” NeedsInternetFilledGenreExplanationNicheTapping Author:Tucker Max
“The danger with the internet is that you don't need to think about music, you just search for it and you find the answer. Singing used to be part of everyday life. Women sang while pounding corn. Men sang while paddling canoes.” ThinkingMenNeedsUsedAnswersDangerInternetSingingEverydayUsed To BeEveryday LifeCornPaddling Author:Pete Seeger
“It is worth reminding that being president is a tough job for anybody, and particularly so in the information age. There's such a glut of information. Anything a president says or does is picked up on the Internet or the 24/7 news media and criticized almost instantly. Leaders persuade through their words and as such their words need to be measured and well chosen. It is a tough job.” NeedsWellsDoeAgeJobsPresidentLeaderMediaInformationInternetNewsToughChosenRemindingInformation AgeNews Media Author:Donald Rumsfeld
“We need to accept that the commandments of God aren't just a long list of good ideas. They aren't 'life hacks' from an Internet blog, or motivational quotes from a Pinterest board. They are divine counsel, based on eternal truths.” NeedsLongIdeasAcceptingDivineInternetEternalListsBoardsGood IdeasCommandmentsBlogsHacksCommandments Of GodPinterest Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“If I do need to make money suddenly, I prefer to just draw something I want to draw and have someone else sell it for me on the Internet.” IfsWantNeedsInternetDrawsSellsMaking Money Author:Chester Brown
“You have to be very clear with yourself about how you're going to spend your time. When a child is at school or napping, you need to realize that this is your writing time and you don't spend it surfing the Internet or reading.” NeedsWritingChildrenSchoolReadingRealizingClearInternetSurfingSurfing The Internet Author:Elizabeth Hoyt
“Turn off your email; turn off your phone; disconnect from the Internet; figure out a way to set limits so you can concentrate when you need to, and disengage when you need to. Technology is a good servant but a bad master.” WayNeedsTurnsTechnologyFiguresMastersInternetLimitsPhonesServantEmailTurn OffAuthentic Happiness Author:Gretchen Rubin
“One of the myths about the Internet of Things is that companies have all the data they need, but their real challenge is making sense of it. In reality, the cost of collecting some kinds of data remains too high, the quality of the data isn't always good enough, and it remains difficult to integrate multiple data sources.” NeedsKindRealEnoughRealityDifficultChallengesQualityCompanySourceInternetCostRemainsMythDataMake SenseGood EnoughMultipleCollectingIntegrating Author:Chris Murphy
“Crackdowns on Internet content make clear the need for an anonymized Web. Now, someone just needs to implement it.” NeedsClearInternet Author:Jamais Cascio
“We must also promote global access to the Internet. We need to bridge the digital divide not just within our country. But among countries. Only by giving people around the world access to this technology can they tap into the potential. Of the information age.” PeopleWorldNeedsGivingCountryAgeTechnologyInformationInternetAccessOur CountryAround The WorldBridgesDigitalDividesInformation AgeDigital Divide Author:Al Gore
“In order for us [people] to progress, we need brilliance and brilliance isn't fair and it's not polite and we can't grow it. It happens. Genius happens and it doesn't always happen in a zip code where we can access it. Therefore, we kind of need [Internet] not to keep tabs on everybody but we need to give them access to everybody else.” PeopleNeedsGivingKindHappensOrderGrowsProgressGeniusInternetFairsAccessCodePoliteBrillianceZips Author:Augusten Burroughs
“[Internet] technology, like anything else that mankind creates is a tool and that tool can be used for good or for evil, like a light saber. Technology is supposed to bring people together, streamline things and make life easier and in a lot of ways it does that. However, technology can also disconnect you from other people and break down the social network, the real social network of family and friends and interpersonal communication, and isolate people, make them feel alone, make them feel small. So it's a tool that needs to be used correctly.” PeopleWayNeedsFeelsDoeRealLightTogetherUsedEvilSocialBreakTechnologyMankindCommunicationInternetEasierToolsFamily And FriendsBreaking DownSocial NetworkInterpersonalInternet TechnologyInterpersonal Communication Author:Rainn Wilson
“We need to make sure that whenever we're engaging in a cyber-warfare campaign, a cyber-espionage campaign in the United States, that we understand the word cyber is used as a euphemism for the internet, because the American public would not be excited to hear that we're doing internet warfare campaigns, internet espionage campaigns, because we realize that we ourselves are impacted by it.” NeedsStatesUsedRealizingUnitedUnited StatesInternetExcitedCampaignsWarfareEngagingEspionageCyberEuphemismCyber Warfare Author:Edward Snowden
“The United States need to put internet processes, policies, and procedures in place with real laws that forbid going beyond the borders of what's reasonable to ensure that the only time that we and other countries around the world exercise these authorities are when it is absolutely necessary.” WorldNeedsRealCountryStatesLawProcessUnitedUnited StatesPolicyInternetExerciseAuthorityAround The WorldBordersReasonableOther CountriesOnly TimeProceduresPolicies And Procedures Author:Edward Snowden
“The United States need to be focusing more on creating a more secure, more reliable, more robust, and more trusted internet, not one that's weaker, not one that relies on this systemic model of exploiting every vulnerability, every threat out there.” NeedsStatesUnitedUnited StatesInternetCreatingModelsThreatSecureVulnerabilityRelyTrustedRobust Author:Edward Snowden
“The public don't want to authorize the internet to become a battleground. We need to do everything we can as a society to keep that a neutral zone, to keep that an economic zone that can reflect our values, both politically, socially, and economically.” WantNeedsValuesEconomicInternetZoneBattleground Author:Edward Snowden
“We need the security standards to apply to the internet. We need to be able to trust that when we send our emails through Verizon, that Verizon isn't sharing with the NSA, that Verizon isn't sharing them with the FBI or German intelligence or French intelligence or Russian intelligence or Chinese intelligence.” NeedsAbleSecurityInternetStandardsChineseEmailFbiNsa Author:Edward Snowden
“Legislation needs a better reason than that lawyers like it, and that America does it.” NeedsDoeReasonAmericaInternetLawyerFree SpeechLegislation Author:Lawrence Lessig
“Our culture is at a critical cusp - a time that requires that we define what it means to be a citizen in a democracy. Within our nation we need to foster a greater sense of collective responsibility.” NeedsMeanCultureNationsResponsibilityDemocracyGreaterInternetCitizensCriticalCollectivesFree SpeechCuspCollective Responsibility Author:Robert Neelly Bellah
“Maybe we need a tax credit for the poorest Americans to buy a laptop. Now, maybe that's wrong, maybe that's expensive, maybe we can't do it, but I'll tell you, any signal that we can send to the poorest Americans that says, 'We're going into a 21st century, third-wave information age, and so are you, and we want to carry you with us.'” WantNeedsAgeCenturyInformationInternetTaxesThirdsWaveCreditExpensiveFree Speech21st CenturySignalsPoorestLaptopsInformation Age Author:Newt Gingrich
“If five years from now we solve the access problem, but what we're hearing is all encrypted, I'll probably, if I'm still here, be talking about that in a very different way: the objective is the same. The objective is for us to get those conversations whether they're by an alligator clip or ones and zeros. Whoever they are, whatever they are, I need them.” IfsWayNeedsYearsStillsDifferentProblemTalkingFiveInternetConversationHearingSolveAccessObjectivesDifferent WaysFive YearsFree SpeechClipAlligators Author:Louis J. Freeh
“People need to buy and want to. The selling itself becomes the entertainment, the sought-after good... In the Internet world there won't be any other way to peddle. To be successful advertising itself will have to supply real value to the consumer.” PeopleWorldWayWantNeedsRealValuesSuccessfulInternetEntertainmentSellingAdvertisingConsumersBeing SuccessfulFree SpeechReal Value Author:Peter W. Huber
“It will allow us to control all the communication needs of a household with one device.” NeedsCommunicationInternetDevicesHouseholdFree Speech Author:John C. Malone
“In order to keep up with the criminals and to protect our national security, the solution is clear: we need legislation to ensure that telephone companies and other carriers provide law enforcement with access to this new technology.” NeedsLawOrderCompanyTechnologyClearSecurityInternetProtectSolutionsCriminalsAccessFree SpeechLegislationNational SecurityLaw EnforcementEnforcementTelephonesNew TechnologyCarrier Author:Louis J. Freeh
“I love the internet and it has been incredibly useful and I have made discoveries that have been immeasurably crucial to my work- things I don’t know how I ever would have found out otherwise, that are perfect, just what I need for whatever I’m doing.” KnowsNeedsWritingHas BeensMadeFoundPerfectKnow HowInternetDiscoveryCrucial Author:Michael Chabon
“Fans decide what pop culture is. We can define ourselves. Music and the presentation of art nowadays is totally in our control, with the Internet specifically. You no longer need record labels. You no longer need movie distribution companies. You can just make it and put it online, and it will distribute itself to millions of people. The borders and everything have been broken down. It really is in the hands of the people.” PeopleNeedsHas BeensArtHandsCultureCompanyMillionsRecordsFansBrokenInternetPopsLabelsBordersOnlineDistributionPop CulturePresentationRecord LabelsBroken Down Author:Laura Jane Grace
“The Internet made the world smaller, so it's easier for people to hear your music. You don't necessarily need a radio record.” PeopleWorldNeedsMadeRecordsInternetEasierRadio Author:Nas
“There's so much information on the internet. But people don't need more information, they need 'aha moments,' they need awareness, they need things that actually shift and change them.” PeopleNeedsMomentsAwarenessInformationInternetAha Moment Author:Jack Canfield
“All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.” PeopleWorldNeedsStillsBookCharacterStrongDifferencesPayAttentionMoralInternetResearchMeaningfulMagazinesPay AttentionContributionOur WorldMoral Character Author:Zig Ziglar
“I also like to use a sensational headline. Many people read blogs in aggregators, which generally show only the headline. So you have to give people a reason to click through. Blogs need to be real and personal. Reading it should be like hanging out with you. I play music for my readers. I show them videos I like. I tell them what I did over the weekend. And I tell them what is happening in the technology, Internet, and VC markets.” PeopleNeedsGivingShouldRealReasonPlayUseShowsSuccessReadingBusinessTechnologyReaderInternetHappeningsVideoHanging OutWeekendBeing RealBlogsHeadlinesClicksSensational Author:Fred Wilson
“There is a connection waiting to be made between the decline in democratic participation and the explosion in new ways of communicating. We need not accept the paradox that gives us more ways than ever to speak, and leaves the public with a wider feeling than ever before that their voices are not being heard. The new technologies can strengthen our democracy, by giving us greater opportunities than ever before for better transparency and a more responsive relationship between government and electors” WayNeedsGivingMadeFeelingsGovernmentOpportunityPoliticsSpeakWaitingVoiceAcceptingTechnologyDemocracyGreaterHeardInternetConnectionsDemocraticCommunicateParadoxDeclineNew WaysParticipationExplosionsTransparencyNew Technology Author:Robin Cook
“What I really think is that our current model of copyright is fundamentally broken. We badly need to replace it with a different system for remunerating creators, which gets it the hell out of the face of the public (who were never aware of it to begin with in the pre-internet dead tree era). Unfortunately, the current copyright model is enshrined in international trade treaty law, making it almost impossible to work around.” ThinkingNeedsDifferentFacesLawHellImpossibleTreeBrokenInternetModelsTradeInternationalCurrentsCreatorErasTreatiesCopyrightInternational TradeDead TreesLaw Making Author:Charles Stross
“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
“The terrible thing about the internet and Amazon is that they take the magic and happy chaos out of book shopping. The internet might give you what you want, but it won't give you what you need.” WantNeedsGivingBookMightMagicInternetTerribleChaosWhat You WantShoppingTerrible ThingsAmazon Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“Universal WiFi. Without a doubt. I am done with being on the train, not having internet. Or having spotty coverage. It's a fundamental need at this point. It's the frickin' information age! It should be like air! And it doesn't have to be free. I'm a believer in paying for value. Just having it as an option.” NeedsShouldDoneAgeValuesDoubtAirInformationInternetUniversalFundamentalsTrainBelieverCoverageInformation Age Author:Maria Popova
“That's our mirror. Every dip, every crash, every bubble that's burst, a testament to our brilliant stupidity. This one gave us the railroads. This one the Internet. This one the slave trade. And if we hope to do anything about saving the environment, or getting to other worlds, we'll need a bubble for that too. Everything I've ever done in my life worth anything has been done in a bubble: in a state of extreme hope and trust and stupidity.” IfsWorldNeedsHas BeensStatesDoneEnvironmentInternetMirrorsTradeSlaveExtremesStupidityBrilliantSavingBubblesCrashTestamentOther WorldsRailroadsDipSlave Trade Author:Lucy Prebble
“It is a catastrophe, all of this virtual being together. I think there are people who get hooked on the internet. If they need to look at explicitly sexual material to be aroused there is a problem.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsLooksProblemTogetherMaterialsInternetCatastropheHookedBeing Together Author:Ruth Westheimer
“Software development takes immense intellectual effort. Even the best programmers can rarely sustain that level of effort for more than a few hours a day. Beyond that, they need to rest their brains a bit, which is why they always seem to be surfing the Internet or playing games when you barge in on them.” NeedsSeemsGamesBitsHoursLevelsEffortBrainDevelopmentInternetIntellectualSoftwareImmenseSurfingProgrammersPlaying GamesSoftware DevelopmentBargesSurfing The Internet Author:Joel Spolsky
“The US government should be the champion for the internet, not a threat. They need to be much more transparent about what they're doing, or otherwise people will believe the worst.” PeopleNeedsShouldBelieveGovernmentWorstInternetThreatChampionTransparentWise People Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“Who needs evidence when you've got the Internet?” NeedsInternetEvidence Book:They Eat Puppies, Don't They? Source: They Eat Puppies, Don't They?
“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.” NeedsWellsCountryBigsBitsCompanyGoneInternetBig Companies Author:Jack Bruce