I always wonder why condescending snarkiness is the chosen method of communication for so many forum users. It seems to me like these things would be much better expressed in non-confrontational, polite manner.

The Internet makes everything much less mysterious.

The externalization of memory [via the use of external symbolic storage systems] has altered the actual memory architecture within which humans think, which is changing the role of biological memory, the way in which the...

I picture it like Judgement Day,’ he says finally, his eyes on the water. ‘We’ll rise up out of our bodies and find each other again in spirit form. We’ll meet in that new place,...

You think you had it bad when somebody put out a rumor on you in the school; think about somebody putting a rumor out about you on the Internet.

What the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. Whether I’m online or not, my mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it:...

The Internet is the Petri dish of humanity. We can’t control what grows in it, but we don’t have to watch either.

The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet.

Hard to remember these days that there was a time you had to wait for the ink and paper reviews to see your work excoriated. With the invention of the internet, any subliterate cretin can...

Search engines finds the information, not necessarily the truth.

Communications tools don’t get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.

Follow your Netiquette. Practice proper internet etiquette.

The secret of the Internet’s success has been its openness to new services.

Above all, Internet dating has helped people of all ages realize that there’s no need to settle for a mediocre relationship.”From “A Million First DatesHow online romance is threatening monogamy” in January/February 2013

The internet is a knowledge omelet. Sometimes I just want the purity of scrambled eggs that only a book can provide.

Information wants to be free.’ So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, seems to have said it first.I say that information doesn’t deserve to be free.Cybernetic totalists love to...

A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or watch the round-the-clock coverage on television, but he had no way of connecting with those...

The idea that a dysfunctional thought could take root in a vacuum, the individual anonymous and wraithlike, unknowable because, especially at first, he or she had no interaction with other people. Because more and more...

The comment section of the internet is like gang graffiti, it makes no sense and is ugly to look at.

The penetration of society by the Internet and the penetration of the Internet by society is the best thing that has ever happened to global human civilisation.

To a man with an internet connection, every thought and every movement sounds like a tweet or status update.

Das Netz ist das Ende des Mainstreams […]

It doesn’t matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don’t appreciate your genius for inventing the internet-“”You invented the internet?”It was my idea, Martha said.Rats are delicious, George said.”It was my idea!”...

Valentine’s day without your love is like a year without the Internet.

Berners-Lee was supremely lucky in the work environment he had settled into, the Swiss particle physics lab CERN. It took him ten years to nurture his slow hunch about a hypertext information platform.

«Brixie wasn’t talking to him, or listening to him. Nothing like that at all. Brixie was off in her own world, flaming away like a blowtorch. She was such an Internet fiend that she had...

India’s great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world.

Be careful who you choose as your hero or who you choose to deify, be it Clay Aiken or Barack Obama. You put all you’re hope and all your dreams and all your ideas about...

Let your internet engagement show your inner beauty through online actions with Netiquette.

Being comfortable with online contact is a central part of netiquette. Stay in your zone.

She navigated away from the Parish Council message board and dropped into her favorite medical website, where she painstakingly entered the words “brain” and “death” in the search box.The suggestions were endless. Shirley scrolled through...

The absolute base-level thing that you do as a new screenwriter is send out query letters. Literally, you just say, ‘Hi, Mr. So-and-So,’ and you give them a one-sentence description of one of your scripts....

More voices means less trust in any given voice.

I have Internet fame. Real fame is more intense.

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

Over two billion people now use the broadband Internet, up from perhaps 50 million a decade ago, when I was at Netscape, the company I co-founded.

The Internet is truly God’s gift to the Chinese people.

Look for when the environment is changing – the big shift now is mobile Internet. It’s really happening big-time. The way you interact with services on a smart phone compared to the Web is quite...

What’s awesome about the Internet is how it breaks up monopolistic markets where middlemen unfairly gobble up outsized fees, leaving us little choice but to keep paying them.

Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It’s an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.

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

It’s always been important for writers to be disciplined but now even more so. In addition to the traditional displacement activities like cleaning the fridge or eating cake writers are faced with a plethora of...

As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.

Now everything is sold on the Internet and anybody at all who doesn’t know a thing can give their opinion.

Laptab: A touchscreen notebook, laptop, computer.

The internet makes every online action memorable. Practice proper Netiquette for good memories.

I read on the Internet that I was dead.

Wie de filosofie van internet kent, kan betere websites bouwen.

If the only hammer you are given is the Internet, it’s not surprising that every possible social and political problem is presented as an online nail.

In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.