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I believe the merge has already started, and we are a few years in. Our phones control us and tell us what to do when; social media feeds determine how we feel; search engines decide what we think.
Sam Altmanborn 1985“The Merge”, blog post (2017)
- Internet
- Technology
Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That’s the way that the license works.
Steve Ballmerborn 1956“Microsoft CEO takes launch break with the Sun-Times” (1 June 2001) Chicago Sun Times
- Business
Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.
Steve Ballmerborn 1956“Ballmer Boosts Harvard Computer Science Faculty” (13 November 2014)
- Science
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
The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people.
Tim Berners-Leeborn 1955Tim Berners-Lee Speech before Knight Foundation, (14 September 2008)
- Internet
When I invented the web, I didn’t have to ask anyone’s permission.
Tim Berners-Leeborn 1955Berners-Lee T., Net Neutrality: This is Serious (June 2006)
- Freedom
- Internet
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
Tim Berners-Leeborn 1955Interview by Kris Herbst for Internet World (June 1994)
- Comedy
There are some people who imagine that older adults don’t know how to use the internet. My immediate reaction is, “I’ve got news for you, we invented it.”
Vint Cerfborn 1943“Your Life: Vinton Cerf” (2016), p. 30
- Age
- Internet
And programming computers was so fascinating. You create your own little universe, and then it does what you tell it to do.
Vint Cerfborn 1943“Your Life: Vinton Cerf” (2016), p. 28
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
The hardest thing is trying not to correct everything on the Internet. It’d be night and day⁠—wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. So you just have to say, “All right, I’ll take it, bring it on.”
George Clooneyborn 1961“The 9:10 to Crazyland: George Clooney searches for George Clooney” by A.J. Jacobs, Esquire (April 2008), pp. 104–105
- Comedy
- Internet
In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an expert in five minutes.
Stephen Colbertborn 1964Wired Magazine article (14 August 2006)
- Fame
- Internet
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