Internet Quotes

"When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page."
-Bill Clinton

"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."
-Clifford Stoll

"The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect."
-Esther Dyson

"The trouble with the Internet is that it's replacing masturbation as a leisure activity."
-Patrick Murray

"What is a Web year now, about three months? And when people can browse around, discover new things, and download them fast, when we all have agents - then Web years could slip by before human beings can notice."
-Tim Berners lee

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

"On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us."
-J. Michael Straczynski

"Be an explorer...read, surf the internet, visit customers, enjoy arts, watch children play...do anything to prevent yourself from becoming a prisoner of your knowledge, experience, and current view of the world."
-Charles Thompson

"Internet mailing lists are like Fox television shows. They have really cool previews, and they get you all excited about them, but they just don't live up to their promises."
-John Dobbin

"No matter how well you know the rules of netiquette, you will eventually offend someone who doesn't."
-Don Rittner

"Internet advertising will not replace traditional media, it will compliment them."
-Jef I. Richards

"The day I made that statement, [about the inventing the internet] I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder."
-Al Gore

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

"My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them."
-Penn Jillette

"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

"I can't go on anymore bad dates. I would rather be home alone than out with some guy who sells socks on the internet."
-Cynthia Nixon

"We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true."
-Robert Wilensky

"Internet: absolute communication, absolute isolation."
-Paul Carvel

"There are 5,000 great people for every jerk on Usenet. But that still is a lot of jerks. Proceed with caution and eyes wide open."
-Don Rittner

"The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it."
-William Gibson

"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 preceving you."
-Nicole Kidman

"We're making a major move of the Internet, and runway.polo.com is a natural extension of both polo.com and our collection business."
-Ralph Lauren

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

"If you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was a surprise to me - that people were prepared to painstakingly write HTML."
-Tim Berners lee

"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."
-Peter Steiner

"Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles."
-Paul A. Samuelson

"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."
-Esther Dyson

"There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...); the other was the fact that the century would end."
-Douglas Adams