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I assume you are on the Internet. If you are not, then pardon my French, but vous êtes un big loser. Today EVERYBODY is on the Internet, including the primitive Mud People of the Amazon rain forest. In the old days, when the Mud People needed food, they had to manually throw spears at wild boars; whereas today they simply get on the Internet, go to www.spear-a-boar.com and click their mouse a few times (the Mud People use actual mice). Within three business days, a large box is delivered to them by a UPS driver, whom they eat.
Dave Barryborn 1947
- Dave Barry
- Internet
The Internet is a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean, “people without lives.” We don’t care. We have each other…
Dave Barryborn 1947
- Dave Barry
- Internet
The Internet: Transforming Society and Shaping the Future Through Chat.
Dave Barryborn 1947
- Dave Barry
- Internet
We’ve all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
RWRobert Wilensky1951–2013
- Internet
- Writing
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 Clintonborn 1946
- Internet
Today, you always know whether you are on the Internet or on your PC’s hard drive. Tomorrow, you will not care and may not even know.
Bill Gatesborn 1955
The Goliath of totalitarianism will be brought down by the David of the microchip.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Post-presidency (1989–2004)
The NET is a waste of time, and that’s exactly what’s right about it.
William Gibsonborn 1948Name of an article he wrote for New York Times Magazine (14 July 1996)
- Internet
From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
Grace Hopper1906–1992On the removal of a 2-inch-long moth from the Harvard Mark II experimental computer at Harvard in 1947, as quoted in Time 16 April 1984
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
EDEdsger W. Dijkstra1930–2002How do we tell truths that might hurt? (1975)
- Clever Jabs
Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
Roger Ebert1942–2013“Critical Eye” column, Yahoo! Internet Life (September 1998), p. 66
- Internet
APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.
EDEdsger W. Dijkstra1930–2002How do we tell truths that might hurt? (1975)
- Clever Jabs
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
EDEdsger W. Dijkstra1930–2002How do we tell truths that might hurt? (1975)
- Clever Jabs
Yes, there is a ton of information on the web, but much of it is egregiously inaccurate, unedited, unattributed and juvenile.
John Updike1932–2009Speech at the Book Expo America Saturday Book & Author Breakfast (26 May 2006)
- Internet
We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on.
Steve Jobs1955–2011Interview in Macworld magazine (February 2004)
- Television