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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)
- Technology
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
The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people.
Tim Berners-Leeborn 1955Tim Berners-Lee Speech before Knight Foundation, (14 September 2008)
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
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
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 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
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
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
I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing.
Neil Gaimanborn 1960Neil Gaiman’s Twitter stream, Tweet ID # 1178514410, (5 February 2009)
- Comedy
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)
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)
By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.
PKPaul Krugmanborn 1953“Why most economists’ predictions are wrong”, The Red Herring, June 1998
- Technology