The Internet Quotes

“At the end of the day, the Internet is full of mean people. Who are these people in their everyday life? I pray for them.”

“If employees need to stay late in order to curry favor with the boss, what motivation do they have to get work done during normal business hours? After all, they can put in the requisite 'face time' whether they are surfing the Internet or analyzing customer data.”

“Without having to ask anyone's permission, innovators everywhere used the Internet's open platform to start companies that have transformed how billions of people live and work.”

“The Internet is programmable information. The blockchain is programmable scarcity.”

“The whole Fannibal thing is predominantly something that happens in a world I don't know about, which is the Internet.”

“As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.”

“The Internet's impact is immense. My students can't imagine ever paying for a book.”

“I am very active on the Internet. In 2007, I made one film every day and posted it on my website. That was a 365-day project, really exhausting, but I still put a lot of stuff on - from life, friends, my own life.”

“The Internet is a seemingly unreal environment where we think we are anonymous. It's a potentially provocative place. As a result, we may not behave the way we would in the real world. Some of us are drawn into what could become a dangerous situation.”

“During the boom years of the 1990s, globalization emerged as the most significant development in our national life. With NAFTA and the Internet and big-box stores selling cheap goods from China, the line between national and international began to blur.”

“The thing that the Internet does is it allows labor to move freely across borders in the way that capital does but, traditionally, labor cannot. So the Internet frees workers to be based anywhere and work for employers anywhere.”

“As more wealth and political power is amassed - as bitcoins rise in value - Congress and various lobbying groups will be influenced to an ever greater extent by the interests of Bitcoin owners who - in turn - will lobby to keep the Internet and Bitcoin alive and growing.”

“I get very nervous when people like stuff too much. I feel, like, as a child of the Internet, I know what that's like: Oh, we all like them? What's the thing that they're going to do where we all decide that we actually hated them the whole time, they were annoying, they were fake?”

“Your mistakes get to follow you for the rest of your life. I don't know if that's good for people who are young and are just starting to explore the Internet.”