“The rules have changed as information and technology evolve, but it's essential that people stay in the streets, stay visible in their communities, on the news, on the Internet, and in this crucial public discussion. There are a million people just like you (or me), sharing the same doubts, fears, and insecurities that keep us from speaking out. Finding each other in our neighborhoods, online, in the streets - this is what keeps us from believing we're alone, from giving in to hopelessness.” PeopleGivingBelieveCommunityMillionsTechnologyDoubtStreetsInformationChangedLike YouInternetEssentialsFindingsNewsEvolveDiscussionVisibleInsecurityNeighborhoodOnlineCrucialHopelessnessGiving InSpeaking Out Author:Nate Powell
“Personally I don't like labels: Brazil is huge and each part has its own specifics. Of course the climate influences how people dress, but even climate can be completely different in different parts of the country here. Like any other part of the world, jeans, T-shirt and sneakers are the uniform for kids in the big cities. As the streetwear scene evolves, people get more connected to global brands, thanks to Internet.” PeopleWorldDifferentCountryBigsKidsCoursesCitiesInfluenceHugeInternetSceneDressesClimateConnectedThanksBrandsLabelsEvolveShirtsUniformsJeansT ShirtBrazilBig CitiesSneakersSpecifics Author:Ricardo Nunes
“The music business has changed so much. Collaborations are all over the Internet. The young people are keeping the old school alive. A lot of them run out of ideas so they grab these songs that we've had out for 50 years and bringing them back and making people rich again. That's a nice thing. A lot of artists don't have incomes after a certain time in their life because nobody's is buying the songs. This revival of their music has taken a lot of writers out of the poor house.” PeopleYearsIdeasRunningSchoolYoungArtistCertainSongHousePoorRichTakenNiceAliveChangedInternetIncomeBuyingCollaborationRevivalMusic BusinessNice ThingsOld School Author:Dutch Robinson
“People were touchingly naive at the dawn of the Internet revolution when they said the Internet will route around censorship the way it routes around damage. With any revolution, the establishment catches up and figures out how to screw it up. The answer is to keep technology advancing fast enough so that those who would try to control it can't. It's up to people to defend what they care about. We shouldn't be complacent that this stuff is going to be a force for good.” PeopleWayTryingSaidEnoughCareForceStuffAnswersTechnologyFiguresRevolutionInternetDawnDamageEstablishmentCensorshipRoutesThey SaidScrewsNaiveAdvancingComplacentInternet Revolution Author:Paul Saffo
“TV has a lot of problems, but I think the Internet and social media have a lot more. Under the cover of anonymity people say the most vicious things.” PeopleThinkingProblemSocialMediaTvsInternetSocial MediaViciousAnonymity Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
“Nowadays with the internet, it's an equal opportunity brutal playing field. I mean, everyone is brutal to everybody half the time. People can be unbelievably brutal on the internet, about everything. But they can also be really, really nice. The problem is that human beings like to focus on the negative sometimes, unfortunately.” PeopleHumansMeanSometimesProblemOpportunityHuman BeingsHalfFocusNiceFieldsInternetEqualNegativeBrutalReally NiceEqual OpportunityPlaying Fields Author:Lea Thompson
“When we look back on this time and we are going to see what the Internet brought us, and social media brought us, I think people are going to say 'how did people know anything in those years, during that particular time in history?' Because there is so much disorganization in the information.” PeopleThinkingKnowsYearsLooksSocialMediaInformationParticularInternetSocial MediaDisorganization Author:Greg Graffin
“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
“Americans have an interesting conundrum, a black and white line: You're on one side or the other of Puritanism or licentiousness. But that gray area where people abide, between their ears or on the Internet, needs to be fleshed out more in terms of permission granted. I think a lot of women are contained within the parentheses of shoulds and role-play. It's all about entitlement and history. It's all about upper-body strength - and exacting your will.” PeopleThinkingNeedsPlayBodySidesBlackTermLinesWhiteInterestingRolesInternetAreasEarsGrantedGrayBlack And WhitePermissionEntitlementPuritanismGray AreaParenthesesConundrumsBody Strength Author:Diane Lane
“I wish we had a more open discourse. It's just a shame that with our 24-hour news media and the Internet, people have become so fragmented. They only want to support their own worldview.” PeopleWantWishHoursSupportMediaInternetNewsShameDiscourseWorldviewFragmentedNews Media 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
“The Internet is perfect for delivering large blocks of text to people throughout the world for free. That's a plus. The downside is the ADD, the Internet-addled Attention Deficit Disorder.” PeopleWorldPerfectAttentionInternetAddBlockPlusDisorderDeficitDeliveringAttention Deficit Disorder Author:Lee Klein
“Everyone has an opinion. That's just a crazy part of this world now. You can type things on the internet. You can have no credentials in any area and just get on your smart phone and write whatever you want. I know where I come from and where I want to go. I know I'm 100% ready. Everyone else seems to have an opinion, and claim to know, whether I am or I'm not. I would love to see all the people who run their mouths try and do what I do. Because they can't.” PeopleKnowsWorldWantWritingTryingSeemsRunningOpinionCrazyThis WorldReadyTypeInternetSmartMouthsAreasClaimsPhonesCredentials Author:Roman Reigns
“I'm realizing that the people who criticize what I'm doing, their intentions and comments are not actually real.There's nothing happening in the real world outside of whatever they're writing on the internet. Whereas for the people who feel inspired by what I'm doing, there's something so concrete and powerful in what's happening when they feel empowered. There's actually some kind of growth or self-acceptance, some kind of self-love that's actually being triggered, hopefully. And that's real.” PeopleWorldWritingKindRealGrowthRealizingPowerfulInternetIntentionInspiredHopefullyCriticizeCommentReal WorldConcreteEmpowered Author:Amandla Stenberg
“Who knows whats going to happen with whole Internet Web series thing. I mean, obviously people are spending a lot more time on their computer.The great thing about it is so many short films have been done over the time and there is not a real, there is not a venue for them because everybody goes to see a feature length film so it really is a great vehicle to do these kind of short creative pieces, so its kind of fun to be a part of that and kind of see what can happen from that. But trailblazer, I don't know. I mean, that's a pretty fancy word.” PeopleKindMeanRealDoneFilmFunCreativeInternetComputerGreat ThingsVehicleShort Films Author:Tony Hale
“I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are perceiving you.” PeopleWayStuffInterestActingIdentityInternetPressesNicole Author:Nicole Kidman
“I'm probably on the internet way more than I should be. I don't know. I love connecting people. I love introducing people to other people who are doing incredible work in the world. And I'm just on the internet too damn much.” PeopleWorldInternetIncrediblesIntroducing Author:Solange Knowles
“Thanks to the Internet, I think, a lot of hate has moved to more anonymous venues. A lot of people get their aggression out that way. Or they do some drive-by hating—you know, where they’re in a car and they yell something stupid out the window at a stoplight and then take off. It’s just not as involved and laborious to be a hater as it used to be. There’s not as much face-to-face interaction. Facebook’s made ’em lazy.” PeopleThinkingHateCarStupidInternetWindowMovedThanksLazyAggressionHate You Author:Negin Farsad
“I think people are lonely and desperate for attention and unemployed and bored. I don't mean that these are losers that live with their mom, although that is true for many of these people. I think people in general are literally underemployed and lonely and bored in this country because of the economic downturn, and because of the isolation that's available because of the internet. The internet has both freed people up to connect with each other and isolated them.” PeopleThinkingMeanCountryAttentionEconomicMomInternetLonelyBoredDesperateIsolationLoser Author:Moshe Kasher
“Social media, it's a minefield! Technology is moving so fast right now. Everyone is scrambling around trying to understand what it means to have an avatar, how to live our lives on the internet, what it means for privacy, for citizens of a political universe. I think that we're trying to find rules now, as we speak, and it's difficult. But, like everything, the internet is an incredibly powerful force that needs governing - not to restrict our freedom, but to protect people.” PeopleThinkingTryingMeanMovingPoliticalUniverseSpeakDifficultPowerfulTechnologyInternetProtectSocial MediaPrivacy Author:Emma Watson
“I think that can also be the downfall at the same time in what's really difficult about being kind of in the public eye, you have so much exposure through the Internet, and you can receive a lot of comments, and you get kind of immediate gratification, but also immediate response from people that can either be negative or positive. But I'm really thankful for the internet because it's allowed me to connect with people so much more easily.” PeopleThinkingKindEyeDifficultInternetNegativeResponseBe KindCommentGratificationDownfall Author:Amandla Stenberg
“We're not saying that marriage, the thing, is now open to anyone of any gender. We are saying, when the word marriage is used in this particular context, this is what it means. And it was the same with "alternative facts." That was a big one. "Feminism" was a big one. And when people came to the "marriage" entry, because we live in the Internet age, they either immediately fire off an email to us saying they're horrified at how commie-pinko-liberal we are, or they fire off an e-mail saying thank you so much for speaking truth to power.” PeopleMeanAgeFeminismInternetGenderSaying Thank You Author:Kory Stamper
“Here we are signing autographs for people who essentially know know how to write their name and are functionally literate. But if you cease to teach cursive writing, how does one know how to, I don’t know, replicate the Declaration of Independence? Or the orations of Cicero? Is it just going to be on the internet?” PeopleWritingTeachInternetIndependenceDeclarationDeclaration Of Independence Author:Peter Weller
“If there were no controls on the internet - and I shudder to think at letting certain people have control of it. It is content related. Ultimately what they want to control and police is the content. They're liberals! They want to eliminate opposing points of view. They do it with political correctness, which is censorship. They do it in the Drive-By Media by simply ignoring all kinds of news that is not palatable or it conflicts with their worldview, they just ignore it and don't even cover it. It's inarguable.” PeopleThinkingKindPoliticalInternetConflictPolicePoint Of ViewAll KindsCensorshipWorldviewPolitical Correctness Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We now live in a country with a thousand political prisoners, a country where each week there are new trials, where people are put in jail because they liked something on the Internet.” PeopleCountryPoliticalWeekInternetPrisoner Author:Alexei Navalny
“People on welfare are getting a price cut to join Amazon Prime, which means you're paying for that. So the food stamp recipients will now get Amazon Prime for $5.99 a month. Free shipping, unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows, which means that these people have to have internet accessibility.” PeopleMeanCuttingInternetWelfareStreamingShipping Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think the Internet is the single greatest revolution to come around in a long time. It's so convenient, it's frightening. I can definitely see why some people don't leave their house anymore.” PeopleThinkingLongHouseRevolutionInternetFrightening Author:Bruce Campbell
“I found when we released Not Your Kind of People it was hard for me to go back on tour, especially when we had some runs that were 7 or 8 weeks in a row and I wouldn't see my family the whole time. It has gotten easier with the internet you know because you can Skype or get on Facetime and connect with your family. It was much harder to do that when we started Garbage 20 years ago.” PeopleKindRunningWeekInternetMy FamilyOur Family Author:Butch Vig
“Now with the world being such a global community, the way the Internet has sort of leveled the playing field because you have so many things that are instantly accessible. It used to feel that way though, this outside pressure that you had to go to New York or LA or actually Nashville if you're into country music to succeed. But obviously we didn't and I didn't move to LA til after I had established us. I think it's easier for people to do it these days just because of the global world we live in.” PeopleThinkingWorldCountryMovingCommunityInternetSucceed Author:Butch Vig
“Most people would say they live with an internal angst that they can't always put their finger on. This is because the Internet has changed our very way of being in this world, compelling us to be perpetually "on" - from our cars to our computers, our tablets to our smartphones, our desks to our living rooms or dining tables, our churches to our libraries to our schools.” PeopleWorldSchoolChurchCarChangedInternetComputerLibraryAngstLiving Room Author:Tricia Rhodes
“Unfortunately, unlike when my parents grew up, you can't turn social media off. It's not like you can go home and avoid the bully's wrath. It follows you everywhere and is 24/7, and especially in the cases of assault that go viral. I mean, your worst nightmare is literally on the internet forever and that is a reality that very few people understand.” PeopleMeanHomeRealityParentForeverWorstLike YouInternetSocial MediaNightmare Author:Andrea Pino
“Doing this web show - people underestimate what it takes to do a web show successfully. They underestimate the amount of work that you have to do to get it to your audience after it's made. I think you have to work so much harder, especially if you don't have a huge budget. You have to know how to get your audience engaged, because the Internet is so distracting, and there are so many choices. People, even if they love your show, will forget to go back for episode four, because you know, people are busy.” PeopleThinkingChoicesForgetAudienceLove YouInternetBusyUnderestimate Author:Felicia Day
“The cool thing about what I'm doing, I feel, is that with the Internet, I do my Twitter and I have a blog, and I personally answer as many e-mails as I can, and thank people. I'm going to be on House next week, and people are like, "Oh my gosh, Felicia's on House!" And it's almost as if I'm their cousin, or just a friend or a neighbor who did that. Vs. some famous person.” PeopleHouseWeekInternetNeighborCousinOh My Gosh Author:Felicia Day
“I often feel like a dinosaur. I don't get the technology thing at all. I was on the Internet not long ago for Barnes and Noble, and people were ringing up from all over the world - Australia, Canada, France. I experienced it as an informal chat, which was pleasant, but I couldn't quite take it in. It had a strong element of unreality. I can't be bothered to switch to a computer at my age, though I might get along with e-mail, which sounds appealing.” PeopleWorldLongAgeStrongTechnologyInternetComputerBothered Author:Doris Lessing
“If you're up there performing a song for the first time, it's as if you're hearing it through their ears. You become acutely self-conscious of the song in performance, so that's a good thing before recording. But I like to have some surprises for the audience; I don't want the audience to know everything that's going to be on the record, because these days, with the Internet, people become avid collectors of pre-knowledge.” PeopleSongAudienceInternetFirst TimeGood ThingsSurprisePerforming Author:Richard Thompson
“Over the years, I've had fairly benign record companies who gave me a lot of rope, but in spite of that, there's still restrictions and expectations. It's nice to be at the cottage-industry size, which I think is kind of the business model of the age anyway. It's the way to be. The Internet makes a lot of that possible. Having a loyal fan base is also very useful to keep me operating; people can find your website, and the venues that you're playing at, the merchandise you have for sale, all that kind of stuff. It's great to be able to reach the audience in a more direct way.” PeopleThinkingKindAgeAudienceNiceInternetExpectationsDirectSpiteLoyalWebsite Author:Richard Thompson
“Our children are exposed to 10, 20, 30 times the number of words that our great-grandfathers were exposed to. We're exposed in a single day or two to more horror on our Internet Web pages than our great-grandfathers were exposed to in decades of living. We have not created modern minds for that modern world. Science and technology has just dumped it on us. And I think people yearn for it. I think you see it in what's popular. Why are people wanting to learn about meditation and talking about a purpose-driven life? It's because they know more is needed in the modern world.” PeopleThinkingWorldMindChildrenTechnologyMeditationModernInternetHorrorOur ChildrenScience And TechnologyDumped Author:Steven C. Hayes
“Nowadays I imagine people find freer and more accepting venues in blogs, on Tumblr and Instagram and Facebook, in the riot of shouting that trails in the wake of every news story. So there's always the pandemonium of the Internet, if you need to get your lunatic opinions out in public. I find most of that stuff a little insane-making and my preference is to encounter personal essays in the relatively sedate and stable universe of print, in literary quarterlies, magazines and books. But I'm sure you can find plenty of good stuff in lonely outposts all across the World Wide Web.” PeopleWorldBookUniverseAcceptingOpinionImagineInternetLonelyPlentyPrintEssaysRiotLunatic Author:Charles D'Ambrosio
“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
“As a filmmaker, I get compared to people who have no clue how to do anything, but because of some Internet writing, it looks like they would actually be better filmmakers. I think this is absurd.” PeopleThinkingWritingInternetAbsurdFilmmakerClue Author:Uwe Boll
“The Internet and blogging made writing somewhat more solitary and more splintered. It removes the whole sense of the magazine as an organism. A certain dynamism. At The Village Voice, there were all these fevers inside the offices, that would break out into full-scale rumbles between writers. The New Yorker used to be notorious for everything that went on, sexual intrigues and people had individual offices, they could close the door and take a bottle out of their bottom drawer or have sex on their desk.” PeopleWritingIndividualBreakInternetOfficeBottomSolitaryNotorious Author:James Wolcott
“I think looking at as, "Bands that release their music for free online only make their money from playing live," is not seeing the full picture. Maybe the dollars specifically come from shows, but people are coming to the shows because they heard the songs, they heard the songs because they are free on the Internet. It all builds into the same thing.” PeopleThinkingSongInternetOnline Author:Jeff Rosenstock
“Bands now are always trying to make their presence known through social networking and whatnot, but that's just the same as bands before the Internet age trying to connect with fans in some other way. But I don't follow people on Facebook, I think that's creepy. I wouldn't want them following me on Facebook. I don't even have a mailing list.” PeopleThinkingTryingAgeInternetCreepySocial NetworkingSocial NetworkMailing Author:Jeff Rosenstock
“I think we're at the end of all the revivals. People would forget about punk for a while, and then a magazine would do a special issue on the 10th anniversary of punk, for example, and bring it back. But now you can find collectors or friends with the same interest through the Internet at any time, so nothing is ever really gone. Everything is always there.” PeopleThinkingInterestForgetSpecialInternetPunkRevival Author:Hiroshi Fujiwara
“I'm not sure Riot Grrrl would have been as big a deal if the Internet had existed back then. Because there's so much stuff on the Internet. People could have been like, oh, whatever, I'm going to go look at pictures of Barbie vaginas, you know what I mean? There's so many different things on the Internet, you read one article and then you read something linked off that article and you go down the rabbit hole.” PeopleMeanDifferentInternetNot SureRiotBarbie Author:Kathleen Hanna
“Right now, women's worth is being quantified by how they look and their Instagrams and likes. That's all so self-created, so why are we trying to add to that? It's hard enough to be a young woman, or man, growing up and trying to find your identity, rather than having a whole Internet of people weighing in on it. It makes me sad for those kids.” PeopleMenTryingEnoughKidsGrowing UpIdentityInternetYoung Women Author:Jennifer Aniston
“Thank God the Internet didn't exist when I was 15, 16. I knew people were tearing me apart, but my God, if there had been a net and commenters and I would have been reading them - it was bad enough as it was. To grow up in the media eye, I'm glad it happened, but that was definitely not healthy being around adults all the time.” PeopleEnoughEyeReadingGrowing UpInternetHealthyGladThank God Author:Emma Forrest
“I was interested in seeing how to branch out and sort of use the Internet more as a way of making and promoting movies. There's no real difference in making it successful - it's all down to the dedication of the people involved to make it a success.” PeopleRealSuccessfulInternetDedication Author:Zoe Bell
“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
“The pitfall of what's happening in the media is if you're under thirty, you get your news from the Internet and The Daily Show, and there's not much discrimination between what they find on the front page of The New York Times and what they find on the Internet. That's not a bad thing, in the sense that people don't get spoon - fed anymore.” PeopleInternetDiscriminationDaily Show Author:Howard Dean