Internet Quotes

The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

The visionaries keep telling us that help is just around the corner in the form of intelligent agents, systems that will figure out our interests and tastes and take us unerringly to exactly the information we are looking for. But it’s clear that the people who glibly describe these things haven’t ever watched a flesh […]

The Moving Finger blogs; and, having blogged, Moves on: fortunately my Piety and Wit Can lure it back to cancel half a Line, and all my Tears wash out a Word of it Thank goodness for delete functions.

What, exactly, is the internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a ‘modem’, can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo.

Women have already achieved great strides in the predominantly male world of cyberspace. Only as they continue to not only create a place for women on the Internet but actively enter predominantly male newsgroups, on-line services, and the World Wide Web can we expect to see the climate of the Internet become more open.

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

By the way, we rank 10th amongst the industrialized world in broadband technology and its availability. That’s not good enough for America. Tenth is 10 spots too low as far as I’m concerned. (Minneapolis, Minn., April 26, 2004

Will the highways on the Internet become more few? (Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000)

URLs are the 800 numbers of the 1990’s.

The absence of governmental regulation of Internet content has unquestionably produced a kind of chaos, but as one of plaintiffs’ experts put it with such resonance at the hearing: What achieved success was the very chaos that the Internet is. The strength of the Internet is that chaos. Just as the strength of the Internet […]