“We have to come together, worldwide, and "think". We have a tool - the internet - to let us do that. Let's use it wisely.” ThinkingUseTogetherInternetTools Author:Jimmy Wales
“The Internet is the greatest tool for any artist to have interaction with any audience.” ArtistAudienceInternetToolsInteraction Author:Nick Rhodes
“Few influential people involved with the Internet claim that it is a good in and of itself. It is a powerful tool for solving social problems, just as it is a tool for making money, finding lost relatives, receiving medical advice, or, come to that, trading instructions for making bombs.” PeopleProblemLostSocialPowerfulAdviceInternetInvolvedFindingsToolsClaimsMedicalWitMaking MoneyBombsInstructionReceivingTradingInfluentialSocial ProblemsInfluential People Author:Esther Dyson
“The primary role of the music industry is to have artists be heard above the rest. It's a big needle in a haystack problem. The Internet has the service and tools to find the needle in a haystack.” ProblemBigsArtistRolesHeardIndustryInternetToolsPrimariesNeedlesMusic IndustryNeedle In A Haystack Author:Ali Partovi
“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
“The Internet is a very powerful tool; unfortunately its starting to get a little saturated.” LittlesPowerfulInternetToolsStartingVery PowerfulSaturated Author:Theophilus London
“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
“I think the internet is a great marketing tool--but marketing is not my job. I'm a writer. My job is to write novels.” ThinkingWritingJobsNovelInternetToolsMarketingGreat Marketing Author:Bentley Little
“I find I use the Internet more and more. It's just an invaluable tool. I do most of my research on the Net now - and certainly do the bulk of my communicating through email.” UseLiteratureInternetResearchToolsCommunicateEmailInvaluable Author:Nora Roberts
“[The Internet] ... is an amazing communications tool that's bringing the whole world together. I mean, you sit down to sign on to America Online in your hometown, and it's just staggering to think that at the same moment, halfway around the world, in China, someone you've never met is sitting at their computer, hearing the exact same busy signal that you're hearing.” ThinkingWorldMeanWholeMomentsTogetherAmericaCommunicationInternetMetsComputerSittingToolsBusyChinaHearingWhole WorldAround The WorldOnlineSignalsHalfwayHometownStaggering Book:Ranting Again Source: Ranting Again
“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
“I was a huge fan of video games; I wanted to write something, and I saw the tools at my fingertips to upload a video to my audience, and thats why Im here today. I think that freedom and the lack of gatekeepers, combined with peoples passion, is what really the true spirit of Internet geekdom is about.” ThinkingWritingTodayWantedSpiritPassionGamesAudienceSawsFansHugeInternetToolsVideoFingertipsGatekeepers Author:Felicia Day
“I always use the Internet. It's a great marketing tool. It's a great starting point, allowing you to show your trailer and have people all over world be able to see it. It was much harder in the old days.” PeopleWorldUseShowsAbleInternetToolsHarderStartingMarketingAllowingOld DaysStarting PointTrailersGreat Marketing Author:Tom Six
“[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
“Internet exchanges and internet service providers - international fiber optic landing points - these are the key tools that governments go after in order to enable their programs of mass surveillance. If they want to be able to watch the entire population of a country instead of a single individual, you have to go after those bulk interchanges.” IfsWantCountryGovernmentAbleOrderIndividualWatchesKeysInternetMassProgramToolsInternationalPopulationSurveillanceLandingFiberProvidersInterchangeService Providers Author:Edward Snowden
“I have a love/hate relationship with the internet. It's obviously the central tool of how I work, and how I keep in touch with all the writers and then producers that I'm collaborating with. Skype saves my life, you know.” KnowsHateInternetToolsProducersLove HateCollaboratingLove Hate RelationshipSkype Author:Daniel Alarcon
“I think there are going to be some social changes that take place due to the Internet, and the availability of the tools to more and more people. I think you are going to find a lot of people re-cutting movies and changing them, making them into their own movies.” PeopleThinkingSocialCuttingInternetToolsDuesSocial ChangeAvailability Author:George Lucas
“Honestly I think that the internet is one of the most amazing promotional tools out there. And I think it promotes music getting heard in a grass roots way, where people aren't being force fed to listen to something.” PeopleThinkingWayForceHeardInternetToolsRootsHonestlyGrassFedsMost Amazing Author:Tristan Prettyman
“The whole difficulty I think that that we're facing now is the question of who is going to ensure that corporations are accountable. The problem with leaving it to activists and non-governmental organizations-even with the tool of the Internet at their disposal-is that those organizations and those people don't have the legal right to compel corporations to disclose information, and that is something that governments can do.” PeopleThinkingWholeProblemGovernmentCan DoBusinessInformationInternetToolsOrganizationDifficultyLeavingCorporationsActivist Author:Joel Bakan
“Every major communication tool on the Internet has spam and abuse problems. All email services, blogging services and social networks have to dedicate a significant amount of resources and time to fighting abuse and protecting their users.” ProblemFightingSocialCommunicationAmountInternetMajorsResourcesToolsAbuseSignificantUsersEmailBloggingSocial NetworkSpam Author:Evan Williams
“So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that approach. It's kind of like a, well, sometimes Perl has been called the Swiss army chainsaw of the internet, but it's more like a Swiss army machine shop. It really gives you a lot of tools, some of which are dangerous, but it lets you get your job done very quickly.” ThinkingWayGivingTryingWellsKindHas BeensSometimesDoneJobsLanguageForceDangerousInternetComputerApproachToolsMachinesOppositesArmyOne WayShopsWay Of ThinkingComputer LanguageSwissPerlChainsawMachine Shop Author:Larry Wall
“Some say Edward Snowden is a hero and a patriot. Others say he's a fool and a traitor. The evidence is mounting that the guy who leaked the details about the National Security Agency's Internet-eavesdropping program may be something more sinister - namely, a willing tool in China's ongoing cyberwar against our nation.” MayGuyNationsSecurityWillingFoolInternetHeroEvidenceProgramToolsDetailsChinaAgencyPatriotNational SecurityOngoingTraitorSinisterSnowdenEavesdropping Author:Arthur L. Herman
“The Internet is an incredible business tool. First of all, the Internet/the cell phone - the cell phone is just another way to get at it - I think is having a huge impact in Africa most particularly, where it enables people - suddenly, they know crop prices. They can communicate. It makes their lives more efficient.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayFirstsHugeInternetToolsImpactIncrediblesPhonesCommunicateCellsEfficientAnother WayCropsCell Phone Author:Esther Dyson
“Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving. Testing was used in advertising decades ago. The internet has made testing so easy that every online marketer can use it to improve advertising results. Google content experiment is a free tool for you to do split testing.” MadeUseUsedEasyResultsInternetToolsDecadesExperimentsAdvertisingOnlineSplitsGoogleImprovingTestingMarketersNever Stop Improving Author:David Ogilvy
“The Internet is a very powerful tool, but right now it's being handled by a lot of fools. And I think us together, Marilyn Manson as a whole, what we all stand for, should be the biggest spider on the web. I think that it will become our web. Not something that uses us, but something that we will control” ThinkingShouldWholeUseTogetherPowerfulFoolInternetRight NowToolsSpidersVery PowerfulManson Author:Marilyn Manson
“I think we all try to figure out ways to ignore the fact that life is about suffering. In the modern world, that's what we're surrounded with. We have all these little tools, such as phones and the Internet, to help us forget about suffering. Whenever you are tired, you don't have to really sit in the abyss of what it means to be alive. We always find ways to avoid it. When a ship sinks, you are sitting in it. There is no way to avoid.” ThinkingWorldWayTryingMeanLittlesFactsHelpingLife IsSufferingForgetAliveModernFiguresInternetSittingToolsTiredPhonesShipsAbyssModern World Author:Matt de la Pena
“Social media has been an incredible tool to connect to my fan base, and collaborate with people around the world. Some of my biggest breaks have come through people hearing my music on the Internet and then contacting me through social media.” PeopleWorldHas BeensSocialBreakFansMediaInternetToolsIncrediblesSocial MediaHearingAround The World Author:Wendy Starland
“The internet, like social media, seems to me to depend on how you use it, where you spend your time on it. I used to be quite anti-social media, but I can see now that it can be a good tool for artists, a way for us to speak to each other outside of standard economies and across languages and borders.” WayI CanUseSeemsUsedArtistSpeakLanguageSocialEconomyMediaDependsInternetStandardsToolsSocial MediaUsed To BeBordersAnti Social Author:Micheline Aharonian Marcom
“If you are dealing with life from a low-level sensibility, the Internet can be a tool for manifesting that. But if you're dealing with life from the highest sensibility, it can also be your tool for manifesting that. The simple reason is that it doesn't cost money.” IfsReasonSimpleLevelsInternetCostHighestLowsToolsManifestSensibilityLow LevelDealing With Life Author:Marianne Williamson
“What excites me is that, when things are tough, people become resourceful, and now with the Internet, social networking and the ability for people who in the past had been relatively powerless, they have tools to be able to spread ideas and organize. The urgency is there and the tools are there and I think that the possibility for really, really powerful results is there. I think it's all brewing, it's all bubbling up right now.” PeopleThinkingIdeasAblePastSocialAbilityResultsPowerfulPossibilityInternetRight NowToughToolsSpreadOrganizePowerlessNetworkingUrgencySocial NetworkingSocial NetworkResourcefulBrewingReally Powerful Author:Shepard Fairey
“I think the thing you're seeing now with the music industry is that the people who have tight-knit communities are now able to really hold each other up because of the internet tools. And the really top-down pyramid scheme of major labels and typical superstars isn't sustainable anymore because the system has collapsed.” PeopleThinkingAbleCommunitySeeingIndustryInternetMajorsToolsLabelsSchemesTypicalPyramidsMusic IndustrySuperstarTop DownPyramid Schemes Author:Amanda Palmer
“Our whole educational and cultural system is not designed to provide those intellectual tools, so people are often lost and the internet often becomes kind of a cult generator.” PeopleKindWholeLostInternetIntellectualToolsEducationalCultGenerator Author:Noam Chomsky
“Things like social media and the Internet, of course, it's not going away. There is no cure for it. And this shouldn't be just like there shouldn't be, you know - it would have been a tragedy if there was a cure for the printing press. I think it's just that it's an amazing tool that we as a - as an animal are just getting to grips with because it's like we've grown a new ultra powerful limb and we're learning how to use it.” IfsThinkingKnowsHas BeensUseCoursesSocialAnimalPowerfulMediaInternetToolsTragedyPressesSocial MediaCuresGoing AwayBe YouLimbsPrintingPrinting PressUltras Author:Charlie Brooker