I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily. - Jeffrey Eugenides I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as broad. I would listen to the radio, hear cars pass by playing a song, or tape songs off of the radio. At that time, there was such an excitement around hip-hop music. - Michael Rapaport

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'r...