“In the past we used to come over to see what was going on in London or Paris or Milan or wherever - it's pretty much the same stuff everywhere [now], and people are wearing the same things, because it's all instantaneous with the Internet.” PeoplePastUsedStuffInternetLondonParisInstantaneousMilan Author:Paul Weller
“There's a site on the internet that swears up and down that I'm worth $46 million and that I'm one of the most highly paid and richest guys in show business. I really wish it was true! Then there's those where it's like my mother was raped by a martian and that kind of thing. National Enquirer-type stuff. They just make it up.” KindShowsMotherGuyWishStuffMillionsTypeInternetPaidSwearSiteShow BusinessUp And DownMartians Author:David Crosby
“With the invention of the blog and all this Internet stuff, everybody has an opinion; everybody has a voice. In fact, there was a time when the average person didn't have a voice so you had to pick an artist to speak for you.” PersonsFactsArtistSpeakStuffVoiceOpinionInternetPicksAverageInventionBlogsAverage Person Author:Ice T
“I'm pathetic when it comes to the Internet and getting stuff done.” DoneStuffInternetPathetic Author:Scott Eastwood
“The Internet, you know, 10 or 15 years ago sort of felt like the wild West. You could go out there and do anything and search for things, and, you know, find out about stuff. Now always in the back of my mind, you know, whether it's email or whatever else, it's like, well, is this going to show up somewhere? Is someone going to keep track of this and, you know, know I was searching for - maybe it's an embarrassing disease, maybe it's a weird hobby?” KnowsYearsMindWellsShowsFeltStuffInternetDiseaseYears AgoWestTrackHobbiesEmbarrassingEmailOf My MindWild West Author:Tim Wu
“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
“The internet seems to be what a lot of independent bands are doing these days. They're bypassing the studio - the big studios, EMI and all the record companies - and just doing it themselves, online, selling their stuff, getting known through that medium.” BigsSeemsStuffCompanyKnownRecordsInternetBandIndependentStudiosSellingMediumsThese DaysOnlineRecord Companies Author:David Gilmour
“I studiously avoid the darkest places of the Internet. Sometimes you can't avoid it because you're doing a legitimate news search and something pops up, but I don't breathe that stuff in because I think it's a carcinogen.” ThinkingSometimesStuffInternetNewsPopsBreathe Author:Megyn Kelly
“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
“I wanted to move on. I wanted to do acting. The next thing I did after [MADtv] was a good hybrid of that. I did this show with Bob Odenkirk and Derek Waters (creator of Comedy Central's "Drunk History") and it was a little homegrown thing that we shot and then we sold it to HBO. We made a pilot and HBO didn't pick it up, but then we made all these webisodes. This was before streaming stuff online made any sense. (The episodes are available on YouTube). Nobody even knew how to watch things on the internet.” LittlesMadeShowsWantedMovingNextStuffWaterActingWatchesComedyInternetPicksShotsCreatorAvailableDrunkOnlinePilotsBobEpisodesYoutubeHybridStreamingHboHomegrown Author:Simon Helberg
“That's one of the reasons I take a lot of consolation in fiction. You have years to work on it. I think that allows you to reach for the best part of your reader instead of a lot of the internet stuff, in which you're kind of reaching for the worst or the most shallow part of your reader.” ThinkingYearsKindReasonStuffFictionWorstReaderInternetReachingShallowConsolation Author:George Saunders
“I love the resource of the Internet. I use it all the time. Anything I'm writing - for example, if I'm writing a scene about Washington D.C. and I want to know where this monument is, I can find it right away, I can get a picture of the monument, it just makes your life so much easier, especially if you're writing fiction. You can check stuff so much quicker, and I think that's all great for writers.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantWritingI CanUseStuffFictionExampleInternetEasierSceneResourcesChecksMonumentWriting Fiction Author:Dave Barry
“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
“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