‘Flash mobs’ are reported on extensively because they’re novel and can be used to stoke fears of young people and the Internet. The media, of course, have absolutely no clue what they’re reporting on. – Alex Pareene
Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user’s phone number and home address, anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user’s date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income. – Al Franken
The Internet, and Google, and everything that goes along with that is awesome for some things, but not so awesome for other things. Because everything gets leaked nowadays. – Anneliese van der Pol
Using the Internet as as vehicle to work with people is fascinating. It’s sort of a Pandora’s box of energy for me. – Jon Anderson
Before I started MakerBot, I was creating cool stuff and sharing it with the Internet. That’s how I knew all the folks at BoingBoing, at Engadget and Gizmodo. – Bre Pettis
The Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama’s campaign has manifested. – Al Gore
In case you’re unfamiliar with TED, it is a series of short lectures on a variety of subjects that stream on the Internet for free. – Alex Pareene
If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite. – Alex Steffen
I mean, you go to the internet and you can see all these conversations and arguments that our fans have about our music and that’s wonderful to know, that people would take the time to be that involved. – Alex Lifeson
The Internet has changed everything. We expect to know everything instantly. If you don’t understand digital communication, you’re at a disadvantage. – Bob Parsons
It’s very rare for the Internet to have a successful narrative show like ‘MyMusic.’ It’s really a case study for what is the future of the sitcom. – Benny Fine
I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really. – Andy Grove
As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me. – Al Yankovic
I must be the last person online to have been struck with this realization, but it’s amazing how the Internet has empowered hundreds of ordinary people, turning them into little Diane Sawyers and Anderson Coopers as they snap and blog away. – Bryan Burrough
I want Pinterest to be human. The Internet’s still so abstract… To me, boards are a very human way of looking at the world. – Ben Silbermann
Now, as far as I know, nobody has ever put up the U.S.’s nuclear missiles on the Internet. I mean, it’s not something I’ve heard about. – Aaron Swartz
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. – Al Gore
I was late to the Internet. I didn’t really understand what it was. I didn’t know what an email was. – Bill Callahan
I think there is a possible future where maybe we do just take a hard turn away from the Internet and we do start valuing our privacy again. – Brian K. Vaughan
I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist – got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here. – Andy Hertzfeld
People are like, ‘Wow you started your own record label,’ and treat me like I’m some sort of innovative genius, when I’m not at all. You’ve got the Internet and music – you put them together, and people hear your music. – Courtney Barnett
What happens is this sort of bleed-over from the tabloids across your movie work. You go to a movie, you only go once. But the tabloids and Internet are everywhere. You can really subsume the public image of somebody. – Ben Affleck
You can’t gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the future is what society makes it. – Bob Kahn
Television is, in many respects, a passive medium: people receive information without really exchanging ideas with others. By contrast, the Internet can be an active medium, allowing individuals to use e-mail, discussion groups, and even Web sites to engage with one another. – Cass Sunstein
I’ve never read any of the ’50 Shades of Grey’ books because the Internet pre-educated me about the ‘my inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves’ material. – Andrea Seigel
RSS, as a format and an idea, grew directly out of an internet culture that many people online today know nothing about: Usenet. – Annalee Newitz
Female users are the unsung heroines behind the most engaging, fastest growing, and most valuable consumer Internet and e-commerce companies. – Aileen Lee
