918 Quotes About Internet
- Author Bill Maher
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Can we go back to using Facebook for what it was originally for - looking up exes to see how fat they got?
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- Author Patricia Briggs
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Any idiot can put up a website.
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- Author Steven Magee
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At the age of 49, I had given up on the medical profession correctly diagnosing me and I was only attending doctors appointments for legal documentation of health conditions that I was accurately diagnosing through internet research and experimentation.
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- Author Jia Tolentino
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The final and possibly most psychologically destructive, distortion of the social internet is its distortion of scale. This is not an accident but an essential design feature: social media was constructed around the idea that a thing is important insofar as it is important to you.
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- Author Rick Riordan
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A telkhine was hunched over a console, but he was so involved with his work, he didn't notice us. He was about five feet tall, with slick black seal fur and stubby little feet. He had the head of a Doberman, but his clawed hands were almost human. He growled and muttered as he tapped on his keyboard. Maybe he was messaging his friends on uglyface.com.
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- Author Jonathan Franzen
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Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet brings is lots of vulgar data. It is the antithesis of the imagination. It leaves nothing to the imagination.
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- Author Bill Gates
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If your business is not on the internet, then your business will be out of business
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- Author Jia Tolentino
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People often make faces, in private, in front of bathroom mirrors, to convince themselves of their own attractiveness. The ‘lively belief that an unseen audience is present,’ Goffman writes, can have a significant effect.
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- Author Steven Magee
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Free self-education by the internet is the biggest threat to the future of colleges and universities.
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