Internet Quotes

Al Gore Quote

(Albert Arnold Gore, Jr.)

“During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.” [He was referring to legislation in 1986 to interconnect five supercomputer centers. The first Internet servers had actually been hooked up seventeen years earlier.]

– Al Gore, former U.S. Vice President

Dan Quayle Quote

(James Danforth Quayle)

"If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.”

– Dan Quayle, former U.S. Vice President

Andy Grove Quotes

(Dr. Andrew Stephen Grove)

"Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.”

"I'm a great believer in particularly being alert to changes that change something, anything, by an order of magnitude, and nothing operates with the factors of 10 as profoundly as the Internet.”

– Andrew Grove, co-founder of Intel, Santa Clara, CA, U.S.

Vint Cerf Quotes

(Vinton Gray Cerf )

“The Internet is based on a layered, end-to-end model that allows people at each level of the network to innovate free of any central control. By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.”

“The remarkable social impact and economic success of the Internet is in many ways directly attributable to the architectural characteristics that were part of its design. The Internet was designed with no gatekeepers over new content or services.”

“Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.”

"I'd like to know what the Internet is going to look like in 2050. Thinking about it makes me wish I were eight years old."

– Vint Cerf, co-creator of the Internet, IP protocols and The Internet Society (ISOC), new employee at Google with the title of Chief Internet Evangelist

Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems
Dr. Mark Bernstein Quotes

"Hypertext, as Nelson [Ted Nelson] originally wrote, is interlinked reading and writing. Links make hypertext.”

"Hypertext is an idea. The Internet is a medium. They grow up beside each other, they influence each other, and their evolving relationship will probably provide a great story for future biographers.”

“The living Web unfolds in time, and as we see each daily revelation we experience its growth as a story.”

"Imitating paper isn't the goal; the goal is surpassing paper.”

– Mark Bernstein, Chief Scientist, Eastgate Systems, Watertown, MA, U.S.

Rupert Murdoch Quote

(Keith Rupert Murdoch)

“The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. Someone the other day said, 'It's the biggest thing since Gutenberg,' and then someone else said, 'No, it's the biggest thing since the invention of writing.'”

– Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and Managing Director, News Corporation, New York City, New York, U.S.

Doc Searls
Eric Schmidt Quote

(Dr. Eric Emerson Schmidt)

“The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.”

– Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google, Mountain View, CA, U.S.
Vint Cerf Quotes

(Vinton Gray Cerf )

“The Internet is based on a layered, end-to-end model that allows people at each level of the network to innovate free of any central control. By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.”

“The remarkable social impact and economic success of the Internet is in many ways directly attributable to the architectural characteristics that were part of its design. The Internet was designed with no gatekeepers over new content or services.”

“Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.”

"I'd like to know what the Internet is going to look like in 2050. Thinking about it makes me wish I were eight years old."

– Vint Cerf, co-creator of the Internet, IP protocols and The Internet Society (ISOC), new employee at Google with the title of Chief Internet Evangelist

Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems
Dr. Mark Bernstein Quotes

"Hypertext, as Nelson [Ted Nelson] originally wrote, is interlinked reading and writing. Links make hypertext.”

"Hypertext is an idea. The Internet is a medium. They grow up beside each other, they influence each other, and their evolving relationship will probably provide a great story for future biographers.”

“The living Web unfolds in time, and as we see each daily revelation we experience its growth as a story.”

"Imitating paper isn't the goal; the goal is surpassing paper.”

– Mark Bernstein, Chief Scientist, Eastgate Systems, Watertown, MA, U.S.

Rupert Murdoch Quote

(Keith Rupert Murdoch)

“The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. Someone the other day said, 'It's the biggest thing since Gutenberg,' and then someone else said, 'No, it's the biggest thing since the invention of writing.'”

– Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and Managing Director, News Corporation, New York City, New York, U.S.

Doc Searls
Eric Schmidt Quote

(Dr. Eric Emerson Schmidt)

“The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.”

– Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google, Mountain View, CA, U.S.
Tony Blair Quote

(Anthony Charles Lynton Blair)

“If you don't see the Internet as an opportunity, it will become a threat. In two or three year's time, the Internet will become as commonplace in the office as the telephone.” [said in 1999]

– Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Professor the Lord Alec Nigel Broers Quote

“The Internet is like the wild west.”

– Baron Alec Broers, Chairman of the U.K. House of Lords Science and Technology Committee

Stephen M. (Steve) Case Quotes

“The Internet will make every enterprise a publisher.”

– Steve Case, co-founder of AOL, former chairman and CEO of AOL Time Warner, founder Revolution, LLC

Judge Stewart Dalzell Quote

“As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion.”

– Judge Dalzell, reviewing the U.S. Federal Statute, the Communications Decency Act (CDA)

Donald A DePalma Quote

"Hundreds of millions of people around the world cross national borders without a second thought…This borderless community of Internet users comprises a virtual Eighth Continent.”

– Donald A DePalma, founder Common Sense Advisory, Lowell, MA, U.S.

Stephen Downes Quote

“This is the most important principle of reading on the Internet: You must determine for yourself whether or not something is true.”

– Stephen Downes, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Information Technology's Internet Logic Research Group, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada

Peter Ferdinand Drucker Quote

“The new information technology, Internet and e-mail, have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.”

– Peter Ferdinand Drucker (1909 – 2005), author who coined the concept of knowledge economy.

John Gage Quote

“The Internet is not a thing, a place, a single technology, or a mode of governance. It is an agreement. ”

– John Gage, Director of Science, Sun Microsystems, Santa Clara, CA, U.S.

Bill Gates Quotes
Bill Gates Quotes

(William Henry Gates III)

“640K ought to be enough for anybody.” [said in 1981]

“The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.”

“The Internet will help achieve 'friction-free capitalism' by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.”

– Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, Redmond, WA, U.S.

John Gilmore Quote

“The Net [Internet] interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.”

– John Gilmore, co-founder of The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), San Francisco, CA, U.S..

John Gage Quote

“The Internet is not a thing, a place, a single technology, or a mode of governance. It is an agreement. ”

– John Gage, Director of Science, Sun Microsystems, Santa Clara, CA, U.S.

Bill Gates Quotes
Bill Gates Quotes

(William Henry Gates III)

“640K ought to be enough for anybody.” [said in 1981]

“The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.”

“The Internet will help achieve 'friction-free capitalism' by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.”

– Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, Redmond, WA, U.S.

John Gilmore Quote

“The Net [Internet] interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.”

– John Gilmore, co-founder of The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), San Francisco, CA, U.S..

George D. Lundberg Quote

“Information on the Internet is subject to the same rules and regulations as conversation at a bar.”

– George Lundberg, M.D., Editor-in-Chief Medscape.com

Dan Millman Quote

“I have an almost religious zeal ― not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.”

– Dan Millman, American author

Kerry Packer Quote

(Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer)

"I agree completely with my son James when he said 'Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge.'”

– Kerry Packer (1937 – 2005), Chairman of Publishing and Broadcasting Limited, Australia

Prince Al-Waleed Quote

“Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.”

– Prince Al-Waleed, Saudi Arabia

Eric Schmidt Quotes

(Dr. Eric Emerson Schmidt)

“The Internet is fast becoming a cesspool where false information thrives.”

"Brands are the solution, not the problem. Brands are how you sort out the cesspool."

– Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google, Mountain View, CA, U.S

Randall L. Stephenson Quote

“The lesson of the Internet is that no audience is too small.”

– Randall Stephenson, Chairman and CEO of AT&T Inc., New York City, NY, U.S.

John Stewart Quote

“The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.”

– Jon Stewart, American comedian and author

Brian Hugh Warner Quote

(Marilyn Manson)

"The Internet is the trailer park for the soul.”

– Marilyn Manson, American rock musician

George Will Quote

(George Frederick Will)

“It is no exaggeration to conclude that the Internet has achieved, and continues to achieve, the most participatory marketplace of mass speech that this country – and indeed the world – has yet seen.”

– George F. Will, U.S. journalist, writing in Newsweek, 1997
Ethan Zukerman Quote

“It's becoming clear that the world is listening, so now we're trying to get new groups of people talking.”

– Ethan Zuckerman, co-founder of Global Voices which gives a Web platform for voices of bloggers from developing nations, Fellow of Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, U.S.

QUOTES ABOUT INTERNET WEBSITES

Jeffrey Preston Bezos Quote

“If there's one reason we [Amazon.com] have done better than most of our peers in the Internet space over the last six years, it is because we have focused like a laser on customer experience, and that really does matter, I think, in any business. It certainly matters online, where word of mouth is so very, very powerful.”

– Jeffrey Bezos, founder and CEO, Amazon.com
John Palfrey Quote

“It's not about being digital. It's about students who are born digital . . . Research now means a Google search.”

–John Palfrey, Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and a Clinical Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, U.S.

Anshel Pfeffer Quote

“In terms of Internet traffic, little Israel is an empire. Its leading websites all feature in the world's top 500, with numbers of daily hits far out of proportion to the size of the population.”

– Anshel Pfeffer, journalist for The Jerusalem Post and Israeli author

Rafat Radwan Quote

“Net cafes must be monitored . . . There should be several restrictions such as a central control on materials sent through the Internet that could be against Egyptian principles. The Vice Squad in the Ministry of the Interior should play a role in monitoring these net cafes.”

– Rafat Radwan, engineer and former Chairman of the Information Center in the Cabinet, Egypt

Lee Rainie Quote

(Harrison Rainie)

“The Internet has become the computer. The number of people who use computers is almost indistinguishable from people who use the Internet.”

– Lee Rainie, Director, Pew Internet & American Life Project, Washington, D.C., U.S.
Jimmy Donal (Jimbo) Wales

“Imagine a world in which every single person is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're [Wikipedia] doing.”

“When I opened Wikipedia, it had three articles, yet it was called an encyclopedia.”

"Wikipedia is the #5 site on the Web and serves 450 million different people every month – with billions of page views." (November, 2011)

– Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, Board member and Chair Emeritus of the Wikimedia Foundation, President of Wikia, Inc., Fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, U.S..