“Somebody puts up some weird thing and somebody else thinks yeah maybe that's the way things work and pretty soon you have some cult going. Its not the fault of the internet, it's the fault of a social and culture system that doesn't educate people properly and in fact on purpose. They don't want to educate people properly.” PeopleThinkingWayWantFactsPurposeCultureSocialInternetYeahFaultsEducateCultWeird Things Author:Noam Chomsky
“A lot of association on the internet is highly constructive. There are people interacting, interchanging ideas, making plans, coordinating activities; take any of the popular movements, a lot of the organization is through the internet. We want to have a demonstration or we want to have a meeting, its done through the internet. I think that's all to the good.” PeopleThinkingWantIdeasDonePlansMovementInternetActivityOrganizationMeetingsAssociationConstructiveDemonstrationInteractingCoordinating Author:Noam Chomsky
“On the other hand, a lot of the internet - I don't know the percentage, but I am sure a great mass of internet use - is pretty superficial interaction amongst people. Its not necessarily a bad thing. A teenager wants to talk to her friend, that's fine, but I think it probably contributes to atomization, which is a threat to the society.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantUseHandsFineInternetMassThreatTeenagerBad ThingsInteractionSuperficialPercentages Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think we need to do much more with our tech companies to prevent ISIS and their operatives from being able to use the Internet to radicalize, even direct people in America and Europe and elsewhere.” PeopleThinkingNeedsUseAbleAmericaCompanyInternetEuropeDirectElsewhereIsis Author:Hillary Clinton
“The internet has made it possible to meet more people, make more connections and do more interesting work than would ever have been possible . It enables serendipity at an entirely new scale.” PeopleHas BeensMadeInterestingInternetConnectionsScalesMade ItSerendipity Author:Suw Charman-Anderson
“If there's an Internet signal, people will always have access to God's Word and for that I'm profoundly grateful for the technology and people who've made this access to life-giving words possible.” PeopleIfsGivingMadeTechnologyInternetGratefulAccessSignals Author:David Kim
“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
“I get questions from Richard Sandomir at the New York Times or Michael Hiestand at USA Today about issues .., 'well, there's a blog site that says you root too hard for the Red Sox. Or people don't like you because you're rooting against their team ...'I don't want to say it's bad. There are certainly things you learn from the internet. You certainly learn from people's opinions. I think you're going to get some of the negative a lot more than the positive, but I think you can learn from it.” PeopleThinkingWantWellsHardTodayOpinionIssuesTeamNew YorkLike YouInternetRedNegativeRootsUsaSiteBlogsNew York Times Author:Joe Buck
“In the past, Being able to follow what you're naturally "should" be good at was limited to a very few people in a country like the United States, It was white men who basically had the privileges - or, you name whatever country it is, there's some group of elites who, through various processes of democratization and things like the internet and the information that's available. It's exploding!” PeopleMenShouldCountryStatesAblePastNamesProcessWhiteUnitedUnited StatesGroupsInformationInternetPrivilegeVariousAvailableBe GoodElitesWhite ManExplodingDemocratization Author:Robert Greene
“I think there is a big group of people out there who disagree about what is going on. They want to have their privacy back, they want to have internet freedom.” PeopleThinkingWantBigsGroupsInternetPrivacyDisagreeInternet Freedom Author:Kim Dotcom
“I can't tell you how many times people - through the anonymity and safety of the Internet, of course - have told me 'You beat women' as if it was an ongoing, daily thing. The only person ever brave enough to say it to my face quickly surrendered his courage when I said, 'Would you like to step outside and see if I can beat men, too?'” PeopleIfsMenPersonsSaidI CanEnoughFacesCoursesStepsInternetBeatsSafetyBraveOngoingAnonymity Author:Jim Goad
“Here in Havana where families make about $20 a month, fewer than 5 percent have Internet in their homes, they are prepared. But it's hard to predict how sweeping this change will be, if the people of Cuba are even ready for it.” PeopleIfsHardHomeReadyMonthsInternetPercentPreparedFewerCubaSweepingHavana Author:David Muir
“The level of backlash [for the True Detective] was kind of fascinating and not fully shocking because I know what the world of the internet is and how it's a platform to project their greatest anger and frustrations. But it's also a place where people can wax lyrical and be effusive in their glowing fondness of something.” PeopleKnowsWorldKindLevelsInternetProjectsFrustrationFascinatingPlatformsShockingDetectivesGlowingLyricalFondnessBacklashAnger And Frustration Author:Colin Farrell
“You know, if you're Guy Kawasaki and you create a car that gets 500 miles a gallon with zero emissions, people on the Internet would say: 'I could have done that in half an hour, and it's been done before. What's the big deal? I expected something more from him.' Meanwhile, they didn't do it, right? They're still living at home with their mothers.” PeopleIfsKnowsStillsDoneHomeBigsMotherGuyHoursDealsHalfCarInternetExpectedMilesZeroBig DealEmissionsGallons Author:Guy Kawasaki
“With housing it's something even more dramatic than that, because most people aspire to own their own home.If you really think that houses prices are going to go up next year and the year after, you feel if I don't buy it this year, I'm going to have to buy it next year.That's not true of an Internet stock. But it's true of a home.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsYearsHomeNextHouseInternetDramaticAspireHousingNext YearHouse Prices Author:Warren Buffett
“People went crazy with tulip bulbs. They went crazy with the South Sea Bubble, they went crazy internet stocks, they went crazy with the uranium stocks back when I was first getting started.” PeopleFirstsSeaCrazyInternetSouthBubblesBack WhenBulbsUraniumGetting Started Author:Warren Buffett
“All the signs of incipient activism and uprising, from Tahrir square to Zuccotti Park to [the recent] shutdown of the Internet to protest web censorship. People are getting smart and getting connected.” PeopleInternetSmartConnectedActivismParksProtestSquaresCensorshipUprisingTahrir Square Author:Bill McKibben
“You have social media and the Internet and immigration and so, suddenly, cultures are clashing and people feel as if they're less familiar with the people around them. That causes social anxieties.” PeopleIfsFeelsCultureSocialCausesMediaInternetAnxietySocial MediaImmigrationFamiliarSocial Anxiety Author:Barack Obama
“Because of the internet and communications, the clash of cultures is much more direct. People feel, I think, less certain about their identity, less certain about economic security.” PeopleThinkingFeelsCertainCultureEconomicSecurityIdentityCommunicationInternetDirectClashEconomic Security Author:Barack Obama
“I think the one advantage to a failed - recovering, but a pretty broken - economy, and a lot of broken promises, is that we've pulled the veils from our eyes way earlier than most people do, and realize "Hey, you know what, maybe I should try do this thing that I really care about, and why not spend the time now during my best years to get into knitting, or coding, or swamp boat sailing." And there's this resource called the Internet that's going to provide you with a stage and a library for all of those things.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayShouldTryingYearsEyeCareRealizingEconomyStageBrokenInternetPromiseResourcesAdvantageLibraryBoatHeyWhy NotSailingVeilsRecoveringSwampsKnittingBroken PromisesBest YearHey You Author:Alexis Ohanian
“The first step, and the thing that everyone has to do right on the Internet is make something people want.” PeopleWantFirstsStepsInternetFirst Steps Author:Alexis Ohanian
“The Internet is such a tough marketplace because everyone is a click away from going back to a cat photo, or going back to whatever else they were doing. You have to win them over, and do it quickly, and do it by making something people actually want.” PeopleWantWinningInternetToughCatMarketplaceClicksDoing You Author:Alexis Ohanian
“I do believe that with more worldwide influences, the coming of the internet age and digital media, the flow of information is far greater, and people's understanding can expand more easily.” PeopleBelieveAgeUnderstandingGreaterInfluenceMediaInformationInternetFlowDigitalDigital Media Author:Kabir Bedi
“I would say the first key concept is that, in terms of technological and communication progress in human history, the Internet is basically the equivalent of electronic telepathy. We can now communicate all the time through our little magic smartphones with people who are anywhere, all the time, constantly learning what they're thinking, talking about, exchanging messages. And this is a new capability even within the context of the Internet.” PeopleThinkingFirstsHumansLittlesTermTalkingProgressMagicCommunicationKeysInternetMessagesConceptsCommunicateCapabilityTechnologicalHuman HistoryTelepathySmartphonesExchangingConstantly Learning Author:Edward Snowden
“When people talk about Web 2.0, they mean that when the Internet, the World Wide Web, first became popular, it was one way only.” PeopleWorldWayFirstsMeanInternetWideOne WayWorld Wide WebWeb 2.0 Author:Edward Snowden
“All this is a blessing and a curse. It's a blessing because it helps people establish what they value; they understand the sort of ideas they identify with. The curse is that they aren't challenged in their views. The Internet becomes an echo chamber. Users don't see the counterarguments.” PeopleIdeasHelpingValuesViewsInternetBlessingCurseUsersEchoesChamberCounterarguments Author:Edward Snowden
“I think we're going to see a move away from that, because young people - digital natives who spend their life on the Internet - get saturated. It's like a fashion trend, and becomes a sign of a lack of sophistication.” PeopleThinkingMovingYoungFashionInternetDigitalTrendsSophisticationSaturatedFashion Trends Author:Edward Snowden
“On the other hand, the Internet is there to fill needs that people have for information and socialization. We get this sort of identification thing going on nowadays because it's a very fractious time. We live in a time of troubles.” PeopleNeedsHandsTroubleInformationInternetIdentificationSocializationTimes Of Trouble Author:Edward Snowden
“I think the increased ubiquity of the internet and networked computing in general allowed me to have some tether no matter where I was geographically. I could log in to a computer from anywhere in the world and access the same information and the same people. It allowed me to transcend the physical differences.” PeopleThinkingWorldMatterDifferencesInformationInternetComputerAccessComputingUbiquity Author:Chelsea Manning
“I'm not a politician, and I do not think I am as effective in this way as people who actually prepare for it - is to focus on technical reform, because I speak the language of technology. I spoke with Tim Berners-Lee, the guy who invented the World Wide Web. We agree on the necessity for this generation to create what he calls the Magna Carta for the Internet. We want to say what "digital rights" should be. What values should we be protecting, and how do we assert them.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayWantShouldGuyValuesSpeakLanguageTechnologyFocusRightsGenerationsInternetPoliticianAgreeWideReformDigitalSpokesThis GenerationWorld Wide WebMagna Carta Author:Edward Snowden
“If you look at the families who live below the poverty line, only 47% of them have internet access at home. And of that low income population, they are disproportionately urban and people of color, which makes it a social justice issue.” PeopleIfsLooksHomeSocialLinesJusticePovertyIssuesColorInternetLowsSocial JusticePopulationAccessIncomeUrbanLow IncomeInternet Access Author:David L. Cohen
“I don't feel qualified to comment on whether or not the internet has damaged collaboration and creativity. That is not my experience... my experience is that I have had access to meeting people online that I might otherwise not have met, gone on to meet them in real life and collaborated on fun projects.” PeopleFeelsRealMightFunCreativityGoneInternetMetsProjectsMeetingsAccessReal LifeOnlineCommentCollaborationQualified Author:Horace Panter
“People are at the mercy of internet trolls who bring people who are excellent in their fields down to their level. They're diminishing someone's flame to make theirs brighter.” PeopleLevelsFieldsInternetMercyExcellentFlamesBrighterTrollInternet Trolls Author:David Haye
“This whole thing called the internet and all this other kind of stuff is about to go crazy. It's all going to change. But, you know what's not going to change? The talented people.” PeopleKnowsKindWholeStuffCrazyInternet Author:Jamie Foxx
“The exciting thing about today with the Internet, streaming, and YouTube, is you can just go do it. You can go make a short and put it up, and it, very well, may be seen. You can create your own Internet series and just put it out there. It wasn't like that when I was in my 20s. People weren't doing this sort of thing - now they can and they should try it.” PeopleShouldTryingWellsMayTodayInternetExcitingSeriesYoutubeStreamingExciting Things Author:Danny Strong
“I find myself trying to translate a lot of the things whirring passed my subjective lens into language I can make sense of, then that tribal tongue becomes rap-language and for whatever reason some people on the internet really like that. To y'all I'm eternally indebted.” PeopleTryingI CanReasonLanguageInternetRapTongueMake SenseTranslateLensesSubjectiveIndebted Author:Milo
“Either for profit or for political malevolent reasons, people are polluting the otherwise wonderful democratizing agent called the internet, with all kinds of things that are not trustworthy. And people are confused.” PeopleKindReasonPoliticalWonderfulInternetProfitAll KindsAgentsConfusedTrustworthyNot Trustworthy Author:Edward Greenspon
“Technology and the Internet have created a new set of relationships. It's changed the social fabric of promotion: advertising, dating. Part of art world judgment, part of it, is based on people's statistics; their measure of financial value: of likes, of popularity. Data and technology are invading the traditional and classic set of criteria.” PeopleWorldArtValuesSocialTechnologyChangedInternetJudgmentDatingFinancialLikesTraditionalAdvertisingDataClassicStatisticsPopularityFabricPromotionCriteriaArt WorldInvading Author:Steve Miller
“Since I've been in the Senate, is that my work with people like Tom Coburn on opening up transparency in government, making sure that every dollar the federal government spends that's out there - that that's all posted on a searchable database on the Internet.” PeopleGovernmentInternetDollarsOpeningSenateTomsFederal GovernmentTransparencyOpening UpDatabases Author:Barack Obama
“I'm not a big believer in revolutions. What people call revolutions in technology were more of a shift in perception - from big machines to PC's (the technology just evolved, fairly slowly at that), and from PC's to the internet. The next "revolution" is going to be the same thing - not about the technology itself being revolutionary, but a shift in how you look at it and how you use it.” PeopleLooksUseBigsNextTechnologyRevolutionInternetPerceptionMachinesBelieverRevolutionary Author:Linus Torvalds
“I'd turn off the internet for a month and make us actually talk to each other, and be responsible for your opinions and not be able to hide behind the anonymity of the cyber-wall to speak your mind. To actually have to face people and see their reactions and discuss it - actually discuss it. It won't happen. Unless the grid goes down.” PeopleMindHappensAbleFacesTurnsSpeakBehindsOpinionWallMonthsInternetResponsibleReactionsBeing ResponsibleAnonymityTurn OffCyberGridsSpeak Your Mind Author:John Larroquette
“In the long run magazines can't be a convenience play - the Web has stolen that. So magazines have to be high fidelity - a fantastic experience - to thrive. Magazines will survive the Internet age, but only the ones that give people an experience they just can't get anywhere else. A magazine will have to be truly loved to make it.” PeopleGivingLongPlayRunningAgeInternetMagazinesFantasticThriveLong RunsStolenConvenienceFidelityHigh Fidelity Author:Kevin Maney
“People underestimate the power of the Internet. For some consumers, it is the source of all information. Younger adults are on their phones more than they watch television. They don't read newspapers. It is their real world. It is not a set of virtual lenses.” PeopleWorldRealWatchesInformationTelevisionSourceInternetAdultsPhonesNewspapersConsumersReal WorldUnderestimateLenses Author:Michael J. Silverstein
“The thing I have learned, especially in the Internet age, probably the easiest thing in the world is to declare that something is not funny. I mean it's not actually humor to say something is not funny, but it is viewed by a lot of people - and by that I mean mainly snarky young Internet men - as a kind of humor in and of itself is putting down other people's efforts at humor. And I don't care that much anymore about that because I know how easy that is to do.” PeopleKnowsMenWorldKindMeanCareAgeYoungEasyEffortKnow HowInternetDon't CareI Don't CareI Have Learned Author:Dave Barry
“The newspaper industry when I came along in the mid-70s was rich and powerful and growing and hungry for material and open to new people. None of that is true in the newspaper industry today. Print in general is pretty rugged. The good thing is that you can gain a foothold on the Internet because everybody has access to it, even things like Twitter - I mean, you can get a reputation for being funny pretty quickly on Twitter, on a blog, that kind of thing.” PeopleKindMeanTodayPowerfulRichGrowingMaterialsIndustryInternetGainsGood ThingsAccessNewspapersHungryReputationPrintBlogsBeing FunnyRugged Author:Dave Barry
“With television, the image has been degenerated, no question. With the internet, commercials... people are much too cynical about image. It's stale. And all over the world, not just America.” PeopleWorldHas BeensAmericaTelevisionInternetCynicalStale Author:Oliver Stone
“I think there is nothing wrong with instituting policies that say that harassment of any form, whether it comes through the Internet or whether it happens to you face to face, is unacceptable; that we've got zero tolerance when it comes to sexual harassment, we have zero tolerance when it comes to harassing people because of their sexual orientation, because of their race, because of their ethnicity.” PeopleThinkingHappensFacesFormRacePolicyInternetToleranceZeroFace To FaceOrientationHarassmentEthnicityZero Tolerance Author:Barack Obama
“People generally worry about social networking more than they need to. In kind of consumer internet investing and on social and professional networks, I kind of look at time spending and time efficiency. You know, time saving sites. So on time spending sites, things where you play lots of games or that sort of thing, you might worry about a productivity loss if people are spending a lot of time doing that. So if there's a lot of kind of addictive gaming going on during work hours, that won't be as helpful to you.” PeopleIfsKnowsNeedsLooksKindPlayMightGamesSocialHoursLossWorryInternetInvestingSpendingProductivitySavingConsumersHelpfulEfficiencySiteNetworkingSocial NetworkingSocial NetworkGaming Author:Reid Hoffman
“When you look at the whole explosion of the Internet, the decline of print journalism, there are all of these plus-or-minus ramifications, and you have to work it out. The great thing about books is that you have a tactile thing that's there. You can download this or download that, but how long do you want to be staring at a screen for the rest of your life? You've got to have some kind of proper interface for people that's not about the screen.” PeopleWantLooksKindLongBookWholeInternetScreensGreat ThingsJournalismStaringWorking ItPlusPrintDeclineRest Of Your LifeExplosionsMinusDownloadsInterfacesRamificationsTactile Author:Irvine Welsh
“Half the people on the internet are bored and they have no life.” PeopleHalfInternetBored Author:Cormega