Intern Quotes

When diplomacy ends, War begins.

Just a reminder, what other people think of you is none of your business.

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

On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.

In Cyberspace, the 1st Amendment is a local ordinance.

Cyberspace: A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.

Old hackers never die. They just go to bitnet.

The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers.

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

With every trade we make, comment we leave, person we flag, badge we earn, we leave a reputation trail.

Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems.

Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends.

Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues.

The Internet is like a vault with a screen door on the back.

I don't need jackhammers and atom bomb to get in when I can walk through the door.

Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

URLs are the 800 numbers of the 1990's.

And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost.

We will enter the Internet version of the dark ages, an era of shifting fears and wild prejudices, transmitted to people who don't know any better.

The Internet is like a giant jellyfish.

You can't step on it. You can't go around it. You've got to get through it.

Surfing on the Internet is like sex; everyone boasts about doing more than they actually do. But in the case of the Internet, it's a lot more.

I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'

The ides of surfing the net -- I don't know who called it that -- it's more like slogging through the net.

Genuinely skillful use of obscenities is uniformly absent on the Internet.

Information Superhighway is really an acronym for 'Interactive Network For Organizing, Retrieving, Manipulating, Accessing And Transferring Information On National Systems, Unleashing Practically Every Rebellious Human Intelligence, Gratifying Hackers, Wiseacres, And Yahoos'.

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

Gays have become the unpaid secretaries of desire, filing and cataloguing human weakness. Promiscuity is now a form of bureaucracy. Tedious, eye-straining, number-crunching slave work

Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame.

Mosaic is the 1990's equivalent of forcing friends to sit through slides of your trip to Florida - painful for everyone but the host.

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away.

What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.

If you're going to succeed at online business, you need to keep it virtually real.

I posed a kind of crazy promise to the Internet: that if you asked me for a hand-written letter, I would write you one, no questions asked.

My cable guy said, 'There's your problem. A squirrel is chewing on your Internet.'

When you make the claim that something on the Internet is going to be good for democracy, you often [hear], 'Are you talking about the thing with the singing cats?'

[On Chinese Internet,] freedom is a targeted and precise window.

Chinese national Internet policy is very simple: Block and clone.

More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege.

One Chinese tweet is equal to 3.5 English tweets. ... Because of this, the Chinese really regard this microblogging as a media, not only a headline to media.

More connections to more devices means more vulnerabilities.

A search engine can determine who shall live and who shall die.

Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection.

The Web of ancient manuscripts of the future isn't going to be built by institutions. It's going to be built by users ... people who just want to curate their own glorious selection of beautiful things.

[A 404 page] is the feeling of a broken relationship.

What a 404 page tells you is that you fell through the cracks.

Google understood that if you're just a search engine, people assume you're a very, very good search engine.

We are like Hansel and Gretel, leaving bread crumbs of our personal information everywhere we travel through the digital woods.

We are being watched. It's now time for us to watch the watchers.

I am being stalked across the Web. And why is this happening? Pretty simple: It's huge business.

[Behavioral tracking] is an area today that has very few regulations and even fewer rules.

[I am] not even two bites into breakfast, and there are already nearly 25 sites that are tracking me. I have navigated to a total of four.

We are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet.

If you think of [the Web] in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget.

Information that organizations are spending economic effort into concealing, that's a really good signal that when the information gets out, there's a hope of it doing some good.

We're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up.