Internet Quotes

There is no Wi-Fi in the forest, but I promise you will find a better connection.

I started taking my little hiatuses from the internet where I just disengage, because you can’t read everything, you can’t respond to everything. And guess what? There are people in your home who actually love you. And sometimes you just have to say, “Do you know what? Goodbye, I’m going to give back the love […]

You can’t really just not go on your phone for a week because you’re having fun and you want to be in the moment, because if you do the internet is like: “Where did she go? She’s on hiatus.” I’m like: “Dang, I’m just trying to have fun.”

The weirdest thing is how nothing ever goes away once it’s on the internet. Every interview I did when I was 15 is still out there, and I think about it constantly.

I guess that was part of why I stepped back from consuming the internet in a really consistent way – I wanted to know what I would make when I wasn’t dialed into what everyone else was making.

Warning: the Internet may contain traces of nuts.

That is one of the Laws of Usenet, up there with ‘You can tell when a Usenet discussion is getting old when someone drags out Hitler and the Nazis.’

The Internet is nothing but a crudely patched-together digital misappropriation of long-established intellectual property of the city of New York.

Think of Usenet as a large house with many rooms. In one room they’re discussing Rilke; in the next they’re snorting nitrous and setting fire to the couch.

Crossposting isn’t inherently evil, in the same sense that necrophilia doesn’t really hurt anybody. One wonders only whether it’s appropriate to the occasion.