Quotes About The Internet

Care to Share?

[digitalghost]

I collect quotes and anecdotes and occasionally run across something about the Internet. Today's quote is one I've seen before and stumbled over again today.

We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.
- Robert Wilensky

Care to share yours? They don't have to be pithy or profound, just Internet-related.

[digitalghost]

Just saw the previous millon monkeys quote in FOO, and now feel like a monkey. ;) Here's another-

The idea is that over the last 10 years people have bought an enormous amount of software and servers for Web applications. But while the Internet opened up all this potential power, it also created the problem of actually making all these things work.
-Marc Andreessen

[ArthurNYC]

If you are in over your head, it doesn't make a difference how deep the water is - me

[Skier]

On the internet no one knows you are a dog.

[lawman]

I believe everything I read on the internet. -
J. Michael Mullis, Attorney at Law

[Alex_Miles]

“Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks”

[edited by: lawman at 10:19 pm (utc) on April 18, 2006]
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[norton j radstock]

Gathering information from the internet is like trying to take a cup of water from the Niagara Falls

[pageoneresults]

"A picture is worth a thousand words and a thousand words are worth millions."

pageoneresults telling a client that they can't put their entire website in Flash!

[herb]

To a WiFi gathering

"I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you"

As related by Thomas M. Keane Jr.  former Boston city councilor

[digitalghost]

Not strictly about the Internet, but worthy:

This shows the limitations of the electronic form: It can't get too ambitious. There's no way you can address difficult philosophical or political issues in a single screen, or even in three screens of brightly illustrated, incandescent text. And three screens is about as much as I can patiently read on a computer. Apparently this is the limitation of language itself: Weighty ideas require actual weight.
—Russell Smith

[iamlost]

We started up the company with a goal of building a real company, unlike so many Internet Bubble startups that seemed to take the attitude of "let's get mind share, and we'll figure out a way to make money later."
Eric Allman

[Syzygy]

"It would appear we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements; they tend to sound pretty silly in five years."

John von Neumann, computer scientist, 1949

Syzygy

[zulu_dude]

"The Internet? We are not interested in it"
Bill Gates, 1993

[Essex_boy]

Micro$oft were as about as wrong as you can be and still be in business.

[hannamyluv]

"Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of tequila and hand guns"

-Carl Gundlach

[Syzygy]

"I predict the internet will go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse."

Bob Metcalfe, InfoWorld, 1995

Syzygy

[pageoneresults]

The natural links that come from the fruit of your marketing prowess are much more powerful than any short term gain from unnatural links.

In a recent Sticky Mail communication. Not on the Internet yet. ;)

[ytswy]

"While you are destroying your mind watching the worthless, brain-rotting drivel on TV, we on the Internet are exchanging, freely and openly, the most uninhibited, intimate and, yes, shocking details about our "CONFIG.SYS" settings."

Dave Barry

[victor]

Not quite about the Internet.

But he did devise C++ in which a large chuck of any software you and I are using to access the Internet is coded:

"I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone" Bjarne Stronstrup