Technology & Innovation: Internet Quotes

Explore thoughtful quotes about the Internet, where connectivity, creativity, and innovation intersect. These selections consider how networks empower learning, commerce, and communication while raising questions about privacy, access, and digital literacy. Whether you are reflecting on the web's transformative potential or its challenges, these voices offer perspective on the systems, standards, and human choices that shape the online world. Use them for inspiration, discussion, or context in projects focused on technology's evolving impact.

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"Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

Tim Berners-Lee

"A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

Mark Zuckerberg

"The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them"

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

John Ashcroft

"The power of social media is it forces necessary change"

Erik Qualman, Author

"The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

Tim Berners-Lee

"I think it's pretty obvious to most people that Napster is not media specific, but I could see a system like Napster evolving into something that allows users to locate and retrieve different types of data other than just MP3s or audio files"

Shawn Fanning, Businessman

"We want Google to be the third half of your brain"

Sergey Brin, Businessman

"Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

Tim Berners-Lee

"It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies"

Mike Royko, Writer

"You affect the world by what you browse"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

Tim Berners-Lee

"In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

Tim Berners-Lee

"Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

Tim Berners-Lee

"I'm an Internet junkie"

Marion Jones, Athlete

Marion Jones

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

William Gibson, Writer

"We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before"

John Perry Barlow, Writer

John Perry Barlow

"A very large percentage of economic activity is shifting online and it makes sense that there are more services that are going to charge. It also means there are going to be more people willing to pay"

Marc Andreessen, Businessman

"For example, I was discussing the use of email and how impersonal it can be, how people will now email someone across the room rather than go and talk to them. But I don't think this is laziness, I think it is a conscious decision people are making to save time"

Margaret J. Wheatley, Writer

"Make no mistake; child predation on the Internet is a growing problem"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

"The internet will catastrophically collapse in 1996"

Robert Metcalfe, Inventor

"I think it's a good thing that there are bloggers out there watching very closely and holding people accountable. Everyone in the news should be able to hold up to that kind of scrutiny. I'm for as much transparency in the newsgathering process as possible"

Anderson Cooper, Journalist

Anderson Cooper

"The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it's allowed is silos of interest"

Seth Godin, Writer

"If the first lady is concerned about this Internet cycle, what would she have done during the heyday when there was 12, 13 editions of a paper in one day? What would she have done with that news cycle?"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

Matt Drudge

"This legislation gives parents some comfort that their children won't fall prey to child predators while using the Internet at schools and libraries that receive federal dollars for Internet services"

Judy Biggert, Politician

"The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language"

Jim Clark, Businessman

"The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network"

Eric S. Raymond, Author

"Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

Tim Berners-Lee

"We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

Tim Berners-Lee

"The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

Tim Berners-Lee

"Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

Tim Berners-Lee

"IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

Tim Berners-Lee

"People love photos. Photos originally weren't that big a part of the idea for Facebook, but we just found that people really like them, so we built out this functionality"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

Mark Zuckerberg

"By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

Mark Zuckerberg

"The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

Mark Zuckerberg

"The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

Mark Zuckerberg

"Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

Mark Zuckerberg

"The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity"

Clifford Stoll, Author

"They seem to have forgotten that, and are back saying the only purpose of P2P networks is for illegal trading of owned goods. We claim part of the reason for P2P is for legal trading of what ought to be in public domain. And what is in public domain in many cases"

John Perry Barlow, Writer

John Perry Barlow

"I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened"

Thomas Friedman, Journalist

"Those who are seeking ways to tap into the potential of e-mail will find themselves in a position to capitalize on the pending explosion in Internet usage"

Alexander Haig, Public Servant

"The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it"

John Gilmour, Politician

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