Sorting through what social conventions we ought to adopt for the Internet is a pretty tricky and complicated topic. I think we are just going to live through a lot of these issues until we discover what social norms make sense. – Vint Cerf
I’m pretty sarcastic, and sometimes that doesn’t come across on the Internet. It seems like I’m being rude or stupid. – Sky Ferreira
It’s funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can’t afford the music. – Tom Petty
I am not convinced that lack of encryption is the primary problem. The problem with the Internet is that it is meant for communications among non-friends. – Whitfield Diffie
The Internet’s kinda in danger of getting heart disease pretty soon, I think. Arteries are getting clogged. – Sean Booth
Being able to compete for consumers’ attention and dollars over the preciousness of access is a thing of the past. Everyone is using the Internet to globally market a product. – Ted Sarandos
The Internet has introduced an enormously accessible and egalitarian platform for creating, sharing and obtaining information on a global scale. As a result, we have new ways to allow people to exercise their human and civil rights. – Vint Cerf
Some of the people involved in ISIS are going to Iraq, and some of our young people are being radicalised through the Internet. – Tony Tan
Advances in technology and the Internet have dramatically changed the way we communicate, live, and work. – Suzan DelBene
There are no more heroes in America. Because of the Internet, heroism has become momentary and within seconds someone who we should be thinking about will be replaced in people’s minds with news that Beyonce lip-synched at the inauguration. – Tommy Mottola
Remember, ‘governance’ is a big word that includes human rights, freedom of speech, economic transactions on a worldwide basis – it touches everything. It’s everywhere, and that’s why Internet governance is Topic A in many corners. – Vint Cerf
I think the Internet is going to open up a lot of possibilities with music, and the shake-up of power is exciting to me. – Trey Anastasio
It’s traumatic to meditate on the availability of information through the Internet, or the way we perceive the world as a result. People don’t experience things totally or viscerally anymore. It’s all through representation, be it a record on YouTube or a post on a blog. – Sufjan Stevens
It’s insane, the Internet. Totally craziness. Like a little cancer. People can just do whatever they want, say whatever they want, be totally anonymous. It’s totally out of control. – Terry Richardson
The Internet is part of this ongoing, species-long project we’ve been working on since we climbed down out of the trees in the savanna. We’ve been working on it without really knowing it. – William Gibson
The bottom-up, loosely-coupled, bilateral and multi-stakeholder practices that have created the network of networks we call the Internet allow for a broad range of business models. – Vint Cerf
The Internet is a very powerful tool; unfortunately it’s starting to get a little saturated. – Theophilus London
On the Net, the bell curve reclaims its tails. The uncommon is as accessible as the common. The very fragmentation of the Internet allows us to find ourselves in other people – and to know that we are not alone. – Virginia Postrel
I think the world’s a little smaller these days. With the Internet and the availability of people, the pool of English speaking actors – not just American actors, but Brits, Australians, New Zealanders, Irish. We’re all up for grabs. – Sonya Walger
I find it interesting that there are impostors out on the Internet pretending to be Werner Herzog. – Werner Herzog
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo should be developing new technologies to bypass government sensors and barriers to the Internet; but instead, they agreed to guard the gates themselves. – Tom Lantos
If you look at the Internet, it’s been hard for a lot of the traditional media companies to launch viable brands. – Tom Freston
The money factor had been kind of my excuse as to why I hadn’t put out any music. So I just found the cheapest way to make music and get it to people, and that was via the Internet. – Sam Hunt
It’s a trend to insult Wale, like that makes you cool on the Internet, and a part of it is because I respond. – Wale
If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that’s unheard of. – Sam Altman
I love those stretches where I’ve just been a writer – when I haven’t been doing Internet start-ups – where I pretty much eliminate meetings from my life. – Steven Johnson
Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling – largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling – grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone. – Spencer Bachus
I’ve got mates who have got married through meeting on Internet dating sites, so it really can work out – even if sometimes it does go disastrously wrong. – Sheridan Smith
Diving into Internet speculation is like playing with the devil. It’s tempting, of course. – Theo James