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Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource f...

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Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome...

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Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy...

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Headline?" he asked."'Swing Set Needs Home,'" I said."'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Hom...

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I dislike the phrase 'Internet friends,' because it implies that people you know online aren't reall...

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John Green (author)This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl

New solutions win by virtue of adoption, and they don't get adopted if they're bad solutions.

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.

Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others

I also administer the Internet Assigned Names Authority, which is the central coordinator for the In...

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The internet is just a world passing notes around a classroom.

Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. ...

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He was certifiably insane, an Ayn Rander who fancied himself an Übermensch and “the Singularity’s ch...

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The library will endure; it is the universe. As for us, everything has not been written; we are not ...

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Google's colourful, playful logo is imprinted on human retinas just under six billion times each day...

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The internet has become a political space. I think that is one of the most important developments in...

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Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the Internet, just...

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The world is not sliding, but galloping into a new transnational dystopia. This development has not ...

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Julian AssangeCypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet

The dangerous charm of GPC was that everything in the world could be called up; if you didn't look o...

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I agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter lights u...

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Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen - the Internet - ...

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The Internet is a clear example of how our lives have changed in ways we couldn't have imagined: a d...

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[The Internet] affects democracy... As more and more citizens express what they think, and defend it...

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Lawrence LessigFree Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity

I use many different gadgets connected with computers; I use PCs, laptops and a Palm Pilot. I also u...

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You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line.

I was surfing the Internet for a different sort of education. I surfed for photos of circus freaks a...

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Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and ...

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The spread of computers and the Internet will put jobs in two categories. People who tell computers ...

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The internet is 95 percent porn and spam

The possibility of injury or death was a strong attraction: as the online world became more and more...

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One of the great things about the Internet is that you can read what everybody has to say about ever...

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It is very clear that voice communications is moving on to the Internet. In the end, the price that ...

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The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make...

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As if I feared that the scope of what I could feel and imagine was being quietly limited by the worl...

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The funny thing about my procrastination was that I was almost done with the screenplay. I was like ...

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The second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you. I wondered if this was why w...

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At the risk of sounding pedestrian, I'll be completely honest: the first thing I do in the morning i...

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You know the logics setup. You got a logic in your house. It looks like a vision receiver used to, o...

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Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health

The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that ...

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The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bl...

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Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verba...

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Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what t...

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Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass,...

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Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

Prior to the age of telegraphy, the information-action ratio was sufficiently close so that most peo...

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Neil PostmanAmusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

An open internet is an open platform for debating opposing views. It allows unpopular voices to be h...

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Newton LeeCounterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness

It is the thesis of this book that society can only be understood through a study of the messages an...

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I don't look at emails, Internet or newspapers before 1 P.M. I wake at 7 A.M., eat fruit, drink tea ...

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With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as ...

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Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of kno...

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Because of the failure of the federal government to enforce federal law, we now have 'banks too big ...

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The internet is not for sissies.

The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical co...

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The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to eac...

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Certainly it constitutes bad news when the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit.

The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the ai...

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To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.

I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on ...

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An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and sprea...

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Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallo...

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Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized ni...

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Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wa...

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It made me sad when I caught myself pretending that everybody out there in cyberspace cared about wh...

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I like to think that the Internet and file sharing, if utilized properly and embraced, and I emphasi...

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Difference between TV and the internet was how far you sat from the screen. TV was an 8 foot activit...

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It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or...

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All of a sudden, we've lost a lot of control. We can't turn off our internet; we can't turn off our ...

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When the Internet first came, I thought it was just the beacon of freedom. People could communicate ...

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I'm not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic possibility. People can connect with eac...

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I feel like the Internet needs to be disarmed in some way. There needs to be a philosophical undermi...

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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who ligh...

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Yep, and your Internet was their invention, this magical convenience that creeps now like a smell th...

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When the earliest Vikings started moving into the northern oceans, there’s one story about finding t...

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Look at it, every day more lusers than users, keyboards and screens turning into nothin but portals ...

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It's amazing how quickly people on the internet can pick something up, but it's also amazing how qui...

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The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate t...

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One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can ...

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The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.

The nice thing about twitter is the architecture of visibility. Email is invisible unless you reach ...

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The level of intelligence has been tremendously increased, because people are thinking and communica...

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It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied withou...

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Once you have speech, you don't have to wait for natural selection! If you want more strength, you b...

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The Internet gives us everything and forces us to filter it not by the workings of culture, but with...

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Arianna Huffington has exercised her renowned wisdom to give journalism another boost along the ever...

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If we bought everything on the Internet, our eyes and mouths and nostrils would probably begin to fi...

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The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in eve...

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It is a way now, approximately, of being at home. The forum has become one of the most consistent pl...

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All my kids were raised on computers: They were home-schooled on the Internet, so they're pretty goo...

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...he found it where he should have looked first, on the Internet, which is a net indeed, one that c...

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Yann MartelBeatrice and Virgil

When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everythin...

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Don't believe everything you read on the Internet.

Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is m...

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When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist...

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Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user's phone number and home address, anyone with an Interne...

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The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all...

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Our feelings of anxiety are genuine but confused signals that something is amiss, and so need to be ...

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The only way to neutralize the effect of public journals is to multiply them indefinitely.