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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
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
The Internet: Transforming Society and Shaping the Future Through Chat.
Dave Barryborn 1947
- Dave Barry
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
- 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
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)
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
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)
What happens on social media doesn’t stay on social media. Online violence is real world violence.
Maria Ressaborn 1963Nobel Peace Prize Lecture (December 10, 2021)
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
Al Goreborn 1948Response when asked to cite accomplishments that separate him from another Democratic presidential hopeful, former Sen. Bill Bradley of New Jersey, during an interview with Wolf Blitzer CNN (9 March 1999)
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
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
The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people.
Tim Berners-Leeborn 1955Tim Berners-Lee Speech before Knight Foundation, (14 September 2008)
The Internet is the best thing that could have happened to China.
Ai Weiweiborn 1957Ai Weiwei. “The Olympics Are a Propaganda Show.” Spiegel, January 29, 2008.
If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter.
Ai Weiweiborn 1957Osnos, Evan. “It’s Not Beautiful: An Artist Takes On the System.” New Yorker, May 24, 2010, 54–63.
- Writing