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The Internet Quotes

When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards.
- Diane Abbott

I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course--the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end.
- Douglas Adams

The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind.
- Phillip Adams

I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.
- Lee Child

That said, in the two weeks before I leave for the Dark Days tour, I am going radio silent, which means I will be avoiding the Internet at all costs in order to revise, revise, revise. I will miss you. Tris says hi, though.
- Veronica Roth

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.
- Paulo Coelho

I'm not an angel, Jace," she repeated. "I don't return library books. I steal illegal music off the internet. I lie to my mom. I am completely ordinary.
- Cassandra Clare

Trends in circulation and advertising - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and unresponsive; the advent of Craigslist, which is wiping out classified advertising-have created a palpable sense of doom.
- Eric Alterman

To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.
- Eric Alterman

I think the Internet is going to open up a lot of possibilities with music, and the shake-up of power is exciting to me.
- Trey Anastasio

A lot of things you want to do as part of daily life can now be done over the Internet.
- Marc Andreessen

The Internet has always been, and always will be, a magic box.
- Marc Andreessen

Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.
- Marc Andreessen

TV and the press have always functioned according to the same sets of rules and technical standards. But the Internet is based on software. And anybody can write a new piece of software on the Internet that years later a billion people are using.
- Marc Andreessen

In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day.
- Marc Andreessen

Once you understand that everybody's going to get connected, a lot of things follow from that. If everybody gets the Internet, they end up with a browser, so they look at web pages - but they can also leave comments, create web pages. They can even host their own server! So not only is everybody consuming, they can also produce.
- Marc Andreessen

At the time I wrote Xone I had never been on the Internet.
- Piers Anthony

I read on the Internet that I was dead.
- Fiona Apple

The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them.
- John Ashcroft

Why would anyone say this stuff about themselves on the Internet? It's crazy!
- Jay Asher

Josh will begin disappearing into a future where the only place he and I remain friends is on the Internet.
- Jay Asher

Josh turns to me. "I can't believe she's writing these things." "Not she," I say. "Me." "Why would anyone say this stuff about themselves on the Internet? It's crazy!" "Exactly," I say. "I'm going to be mentally ill in fifteen years, and that's why my husband doesn't want to be around me.
- Jay Asher

The internet is 95 percent porn and spam
- Margaret Atwood

I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online - but I was talking about fundamentals: quite simply, you can't use the net unless you can read.
- Margaret Atwood

About five, six FBI agents walked into the courthouse and arrested me. They said I was being arrested for distribution of information related to explosives over the Internet.
- Sherman Austin

I've seen, not surprisingly, no action taken against those people, but here I am, an anarchist website, not even close to what that is, not even close to what else you can find on the Internet.
- Sherman Austin

There's something on the Internet called the White Resistance Manual. It's pretty much for white supremacists.
- Sherman Austin

Kids don't go out and buy CDs, they make their own, they download them from the Internet.
- Sebastian Bach

The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.
- Randy Bachman

Pre-teens, teens and college students have unlimited access to the Internet - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Because of the repeated exposure they have to illegal Internet gambling sites, they fall victim by the thousands.
- Spencer Bachus

Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone.
- Spencer Bachus

There's the classic charitable contribution, which we receive thousands, and we're extremely grateful and they often come with notes from people, which are very heartwarming, about how much difference our products have made in their life on the Internet.
- Mitchell Baker

I've been making music for a while. And I could read about myself on the Internet for a while.
- Azealia Banks

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.
- John Perry Barlow

The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.
- Dave Barry

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
- Dave Barry

I spent hours on the internet looking at how glamorous actresses winked and how they would put their hand on their waist, and I was told to look at how they would walk in a room and how her body takes place of everything.
- Berenice Bejo

Not as much as I used to, but I use the Internet for everything. I use it for information. Like if I'm planning a trip or something, I'll check out the place I'm going to.
- Catherine Bell

It would probably break my heart to hear that people didn't like me. I don't look on the Internet.
- Elisabeth Rohm

I'm a babe in the woods when it comes to the Internet.
- Peter Benchley

In general, the Internet was not designed to accommodate deliberate failures to communicate.
- Daniel J Bernstein

Who needs fan mail when you have the Internet?
- Nuno Bettencourt

On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be big, or you can be small. It's very hard to be medium. A lot of medium-sized companies had the financing rug pulled out from under them before they could get big.
- Jeff Bezos

People forget already how much utility they get out of the Internet - how much utility they get out of e-mail, how much utility they get out of even simple things like brochureware online.
- Jeff Bezos

I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.
- Jeff Bezos

But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are. We don't get our hair caught in it, but that's the level of primitiveness of where we are. We're in 1908.
- Jeff Bezos

This legislation gives parents some comfort that their children won't fall prey to child predators while using the Internet at schools and libraries that receive federal dollars for Internet services.
- Judy Biggert

As children, many of us were taught never to talk to strangers. As parents and grandparents, our message must change with technology to include strangers on the Internet.
- Judy Biggert

Moveon is not a one-way broadcast media. The Internet, when used best, is a two-way media. We have a forum in which people can post comments and those comments can be rated. We get a sense of what people feel most passionately about.
- Joan Blades

People think of us as an information distributor because that's how they relate to the Internet. But most of the time people already have pretty well established opinions.
- Joan Blades

With the internet, things are so much more immediate. People taste-test things to see if they want to buy the CD.
- Michael Bolton

Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers.
- Omar Bongo

I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.
- Omar Bongo

There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don't have to think, you just have to get more information - gets very dangerous.
- Edward De Bono

At its core, the FCC's plan to regulate the Internet will force businesses and people to check first with the government and get permission to innovate.
- Mary Bono

The Internet is a bright spot for our struggling economy and functioning just fine without what amounts to a federal pat-down of the inner workings of the Internet.
- Mary Bono

For years, my colleagues and I - primarily Republicans but also some Democrats - have introduced legislation and written to the FCC asking the commission to cease attempts to regulate the Internet unless given the clear authority to do so by Congress.
- Mary Bono

The Internet's kinda in danger of getting heart disease pretty soon, I think. Arteries are getting clogged.
- Sean Booth

You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.
- Ray Bradbury

The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere.
- Ray Bradbury

To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.
- Ray Bradbury

I think that the balance needs to be restored, and I would note that in the camp in which I am in, one finds libraries, universities, the Internet industry, the manufacturers of digital media, and consumers.
- Rick Boucher

I have been involved in Internet-related policy for approximately one decade, and I have been using the Internet myself for almost that period of time.
- Rick Boucher

The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication.
- Rick Boucher

The Democratic Party had no idea how to use the Internet. They treated it like free money and then kept on doing all the rest of the things they normally do.
- Wes Boyd

We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone.
- Richard Branson

Oh, hello," Dr. M says, shaking Balder's hand. "Wonderful costume. I'm a bit of a role player myself on the weekends. Tell me, where did you get the helmet?"
It was forged in the North, blessed by the hands of Odin, given to me by my mother, Frigg," Balder answers.
Lovely. I got mine on the Internet.
- Libba Bray

What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS News that's quite outrageous.
- Tom Brokaw

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
- Andrew Brown

I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system.
- Jerry Brown

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.
- Jack Bruce

Trust me, the being-dead part is much easier than the dying part. If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch. Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.
- Chuck Palahniuk

Then there's going to be another project I am involved with, in fact, I'm going back to film it next week. It's a game for the Internet called Advance Warriors, and my character is Max, who is blind, but he has special powers. It will be a new game played on the Internet.
- Jeremy Bulloch

It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inventing the internet-"
"You invented the internet?"
It was my idea, Martha said.
Rats are delicious, George said.
"It was my idea!" Hermes said. "I mean the internet, not the rats. But that's not the point.
- Rick Riordan

The sign was spray-painted in Arabic and English, probably from some attempt by the farmer to sell his wares in the market. The English read: Dates-best price. Cold Bebsi.
"Bebsi?" I asked.
"Pepsi," Walt said. "I read about it on the Internet. There's no 'p' in Arabic. Everyone here calls the soda Bebsi."
"So you have to have Bebsi with your bizza?"
"Brobably.
- Rick Riordan

... texting, even browsing the Internet - all these things can attract monsters.
- Rick Riordan

All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or maybe they'd realized I got my Essay on Tom Sawyer from the Internet without ever reading the book and now they were going to take away my grade. Or worse, they were going to make me read the book.
- Rick Riordan

HAZEL: "THERE," she said.The official building on their left had a single word etched on the glass doors: AMAZON.
"oh," Frank said."Uh, no, Hazel. That's a modern thing. They're a company, Right? they sell stuff on the internet. They're not actually Amazons."
"Unless..." Percy walked through the doors.
- Rick Riordan

Annabeth came up to me. She was dressed in black camouflage with her Celestial bronze knife strapped to her arm and her laptop bag slung over her shoulderready for stabbing or surfing the Internet, whichever came first.
- Rick Riordan

Hermes gazed up at the stars. 'My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it. It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inventing the Internet--
- Rick Riordan

Only on the Internet can a person be lonely and popular at the same time.
- Allison Burnett

The world is changing, and the Internet is about to become the next broadcast network.
- Mark Burnett

It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.
- George W Bush

Will the highways on the Internet become more few?
- George W Bush

If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.
- Dan Quayle

John Conyers' office has been very responsive to citizen concerns and the Internet has presented a way to communicate with them in a way that's never before been there.
- John Byrne

My presence in the social media and on the Internet is much bigger than many of the other candidates, including Mitt Romney. So, when you take the social media and you take the Tea Party citizens movement, you have a combination there that, quite frankly, 10 years ago, I wouldn't have had a chance.
- Herman Cain

The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.
- Carly Fiorina

We get sucked into the Internet and streaming information, and it's time to just unplug and look within.
- Jonathan Cain

Excuse me? You're a lady?"
"I bought a title on the Internet. I own one square inch of Scotland. And you're changing the subject.
- Rachel Caine

You can't be serious," Eve said. "Guys. People get eaten in places like this. At the very least, we get locked in a room and terrible, evil things get done to us and put on the Internet. I've seen the movies."
Eve," Michael said, "horror movies are not documentaries.
- Rachel Caine

I see the Internet as the next big deal - I wanted to get in on it early on so I wouldn't get behind it all.
- Bruce Campbell

The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet's availability by taxing access to it.
- Chris Cannon

Kids today know way more than you think they do, with the Internet and 500 TV channels.
- Rodney Carrington

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
- Jimmy Carter

Five or ten years ago, when it was clear the Internet was becoming a mainstream phenomenon, it was equally clear that a lot of people were being left out and could be left behind.
- Steve Case

The Internet was appealing partly because it was something I could do in bed and feel like I was achieving something. I had an operation when I was 13 and ended up with complications, so I was in and out of the hospital. The bottom line is you can get through health challenges. It's part of why I was so driven.
- Pete Cashmore

If it doesn't come through the Internet, it's not really compelling to me.
- Pete Cashmore

There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.
- Vinton Cerf

What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing - or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax - that you can do on the public switched telephone network.
- Vinton Cerf

The Internet lives where anyone can access it.
- Vinton Cerf

We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over the Internet.
- Vinton Cerf

The investment we're all looking for is actually saving labor... Look at what the internet is doing to retail.
- James Chanos

We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the tools they need to protect them.
- Peter Chernin

Fire has impacted every part of our lives - without fire, there would be no shopping, right? - that's how the Internet will intrude on our lives, particularly our kids' lives.
- Jay Chiat

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
- Noam Chomsky

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.
- Noam Chomsky

As a research tool, the internet is invaluable.
- Noam Chomsky

Russia should support globalization. The Internet can develop in Russia in a very speedy way.
- Anatoly Chubais

The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.
- Jim Clark

I'd say there was a fair amount of skepticism at the time about whether the Internet held any promise. And of course I felt that it did.
- Jim Clark

No matter how much Bill Gates may claim otherwise, he missed the Internet, like a barreling freight train that he didn't hear or see coming.
- Jim Clark

My rule is never to look at anything on the Internet.
- Emilia Clarke

I'm actually doing a show. from my shed. on the internet. but it won't be music or anything, it's more to do with drinking and smoking. it's an art piece.
- Vince Clarke

Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.
- William J Clinton

Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.
- Hillary Clinton

The hardest thing is trying not to correct everything on the Internet. It'd be night and day - wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. So you just have to say, 'All right, I'll take it, bring it on.'
- George Clooney

I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.
- Daniel Clowes

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.
- Kent Conrad

I was stuck at home in bed with me and got more and more involved with the Internet. I used it to keep in contact with friends and to make sure I was up to date with everything that was going on in the world.
- Benjamin Cohen

I am charging you with the protection of my mother and friends, not to mention keeping my younger self off the Internet. He is as dangerous as Opal.
- Eoin Colfer

I think that new communications are wonderful and I am delighted to be a part of the Internet generation.
- Judy Collins

The internet in hotels should be free - and I really resent it when they charge you five dollars for a bottle of water beside your bed.
- Francis Ford Coppola

I don't like reading things that people say on the Internet because I know so much of it is not true. I don't want to waste my time worrying about what other people are thinking. I just want to focus on being able to do cool projects.
- Lily Collins

Well I'm a longtime AOL subscriber and I love the whole thing. I'm an email junkie and I love the internet, though 7th Heaven doesn't give me much free time to surf these days.
- Stephen Collins

Someone once said, that the internet is the bathroom wall of the 21 century. And that appears to be true, especially since Bobrick transitioned to plastic laminates removing the opportunity to defame others behind those closed doors.
- Delia J Colvin

I printed a list of Irish names from the Internet and my husband, Dave, saw Finley on the list. I really liked it but didn't want to scare Dave off with my enthusiasm. So I used a little reverse psychology and let him think it was his idea.
- Holly Marie Combs

I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say, 'News is news, what you're talking about is a change of consumption, not the product that's out there.' But I think there is a change.
- Michael Connelly

We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.
- Scott Cook

Some say the Internet is for porn but you know that in truth the Internet is for spam.
- Charles Stross

Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends without charging: we called them "librarians".
- Charles Stross

TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.
- Douglas Coupland

All three networks have always had a morning show but now cable of course is taking some of that audience away and a variety of other things, probably the Internet as well.
- Katie Couric

We are having Internet Governance discussions and meetings and a very large number of people are discussing the future of the Internet who have no clue as to what the Internet is except that it is important and that they have to be involved.
- Steve Crocker

The Internet has become important on the world's stage.
- Steve Crocker

Of course for many years directors have had to go on the road with their movies and promote them and I've done that since the beginning. So that's not new but the forms of it are different such as with the internet.
- David Cronenberg

There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because there have been some great live things that ended up on the Internet. Rather than try to stop it, we like it. If nobody gave a crap about you, they wouldn't bother to bootleg you.
- Burton Cummings

On the Internet, news is consumed a la carte. If someone shows up on the main page of a website and doesn't see anything of interest, they leave. This negatively impacts ad revenues. The solution on the Internet is to pack news websites full of things that will draw people in, regardless of whether they are news or not.
- Drew Curtis

The pictures of me on the Internet were silly, inappropriate shots. I appreciate all the support of my fans, and hope they understand that along the way I am going to make mistakes and I am not perfect. I never intended for any of this to happen, and I am truly sorry if I have disappointed anyone. Most of all, I have let myself down. I will learn from my mistakes and trust my support team.
- Miley Cyrus

The story of the Internet is this incredibly strong, exciting change.
- James Daly

There certainly was a lot of potential in the air for doing a magazine which focused on the way business, in particular, was being transformed by the Internet.
- James Daly

People who say that the Internet is the bubble are incredibly misguided.
- James Daly

See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool.
- James Daly

You know, it's really strange now with the Internet, with everyone having an unsolicited, anonymous opinion.
- Jeff Daniels

More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago.
- Edwidge Danticat

People are talking about the Internet as though it is going to change the world. It's not going to change the world. It's not going to change the way we think, and it's not going to change the way we feel.
- Peter Davison

I don't even own my own name on the internet - somebody else bought it.
- Cat Deeley

Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome.
- John Green

Harry Potter isn't real? Oh no! Wait, wait, what do you mean by real? Is this video blog real? Am I real if you can see me and hear me, but only through the internet? Are you real if I can read your comment but I don't know who you are or what your name is or where you're from or what you look like or how old you are? I know all of those things about Harry Potter. Maybe Harry Potter's real and you're not.
- John Green

...clearly, we're supposed to be together. If this were the internet, seventeen-year-old girls would be writing slash fiction about us as we speak.
- Vaughn R Demont

Cyber terrorism could also become more attractive as the real and virtual worlds become more closely coupled, with automobiles, appliances, and other devices attached to the Internet.
- Dorothy Denning

The Internet knows no national borders.
- Alan Dershowitz

We are offering to the American public a line of delicious Italian-American foods. They will be available through the Internet, shopping networks and national store distribution.
- Rocco Dispirito

Green technologies - going green - is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century.
- John Doerr

So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message.
- Thomas Dolby

The internet is a great way to get on the net.
- Bob Dole

The United States invented the Internet and it has been our gift to the world, paid for by our taxpayers. The U.N.'s desire to take that gift as a means of increasing its power must be stopped.
- John Doolittle

The only way the Internet will continue to remain the thriving medium it has become today is to keep it under the control of the United States.
- John Doolittle

Turning the Internet over to the U.N. or some other phony international organization would be a disaster, and I am not willing to stand by and let it happen.
- John Doolittle

If the U.N. were to be successful in its efforts to control the Internet, countries where human rights records range from questionable to criminal could be put in charge of determining what is and is not allowed to appear online.
- John Doolittle

Now is the time to draw a clean, clear, bright line and say if you are engaging in speech over the Internet you do not have to check with your lawyer or your accountant. You are a free American, and you have the opportunity to engage in free speech over the Internet.
- John Doolittle

the internet are the ultimate enemy of unconditional commitment
- Hubert L Dreyfus

There's a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention.
- Matt Drudge

Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.
- Matt Drudge

The Internet feeds off the main press, and the main press feeds off the Internet. They're working in tandem.
- Matt Drudge

There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.
- Matt Drudge

I just think the Internet has made us ruder.
- Rick Warren

Stand-up comedy is tough right now. Anybody can come to a concert, tape you, and put you up on the Internet. You either fight it or embrace it.
- Jeff Dunham

You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there's a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, there's so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them.
- Lena Dunham

I was raised on the Internet.
- Lena Dunham

As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.
- Esther Dyson

I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly.
- Roger Ebert

The Internet is a whole new world opening up.
- Kenneth Edmonds

I wonder what Proust would have made of our present-day locus of collective fantasy, the Internet. I'm guessing he would have seized on its wistful aspect, pointing out gently and with wry humor that much of what beguiles us is the act of reaching for what isn't there.
- Jennifer Egan

They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
- Larry Ellison

I started NetSuite. NetSuite was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said, 'We're going to do ERP on the Internet, software-as-a-service.' Six months later Marc Benioff, finding out what NetSuite was doing, and kind of copied it.
- Larry Ellison

The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance. Now...cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.
- Ben Elton

Certainly I'm not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I'm a sponge. I've always been a sponge.
- Eminem

I'm on the Internet. I stay informed. They let old people on the Internet, you know.
- Stephen Emond

I have reviewed literally hundreds of dotcoms in my drive to bring Boomer Esiason Foundation onto the Internet, and have selected ClickThings as a partner because of the advanced technology it offers small business, and its understanding of the entrepreneurial spirit of the small business community.
- Boomer Esiason

The Internet is a big place where a lot of people can voice their opinions, and my mother chooses to pick fights with random people from all over the world who don't have the nicest things to say about me.
- Chris Evans

If people want to see you, they'll find you. If they don't see you on TV, they'll find you on the Internet.
- Jimmy Fallon

Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.
- Dan Farmer

The secret of the Internet's success has been its openness to new services.
- Edward Felten

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.
- Edward Felten

I'm obsessed with shopping. I'll get these urges to buy, like to shop for stuff on the Internet. I search for all kinds of weird gizmos I could get.
- Tom Felton

Be careful who you choose as your hero or who you choose to deify, be it Clay Aiken or Barack Obama. You put all you're hope and all your dreams and all your ideas about stuff into one human being. They're a human being they're going to let you down.
You can't make someone your hero because of something you read on the internet. The internet is not a source of information it is a source of disinformation.
- Craig Ferguson

Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.
- Suzanne Fields

I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.
- Carrie Fisher

The freedom to connect to the world anywhere at anytime brings with it the threat of unscrupulous predators and criminals who mask their activities with the anonymity the Internet provides to its users.
- Mike Fitzpatrick

The best defense against these people is to educate parents and children of the dangers that come along with the Internet and by limiting access to certain sites during the school day.
- Mike Fitzpatrick

Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to serve as a clearinghouse and resource for parents, teachers and children for information on the dangers of surfing the Internet.
- Mike Fitzpatrick

Make no mistake; child predation on the Internet is a growing problem.
- Mike Fitzpatrick

The Internet has brought communities across the globe closer together through instant communication.
- Mike Fitzpatrick

You can't chase everybody on the Internet who's saying stuff about you, that's for sure.
- Bobby Flay

We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures that we've made up, made of certain different flotsam from pop culture and certain different personas that are in style.
- Gillian Flynn

I know a lot about birds and bees, but I don't know very much about the birds and the bees. Everything I do know I had to teach myself on the Internet, because I don't have anyone to ask. For example, I know that you give someone a blowjob by putting your penis in their mouth.
- Jonathan Safran Foer

I think the Internet's been a tremendous tool in terms of breaking down the power structure of information and entertainment, particularly at a time when so much information and entertainment were in the hands of so few people, with multinationals owning everything.
- Dave Foley

The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom.
- Frederick Forsyth

The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.
- Barney Frank

These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries.
- Thomas Frank

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