918 Quotes About Internet

As pessoas sempre foram o que são hoje, só que estavam escondidas do nosso olhar e percepção, o que acontece é que a internet permite que se mostrem, que consigam atingir-nos lá no fundo das suas cavernas, que saiam das tocas para nos golpear.

But lately I've been wondering how everything got so INTIMATELY terrible, and why, exactly, we keep playing along. How did a huge number of people begin spending the bulk of our disappearing free time in an openly torturous environment? How did the internet get so bad, so confining, so inescapably personal, so politically determinative—and why are all those questions asking the same thing?

One can imagine a high-definition democracy, in which they would show the human rights chart every day, in real time on the screens, in the way they do now for the weather. They would show the observance and violation of those rights over the whole planet, possibly with immediate penalties (which would obviously produce a constant worsening of the situation).

Ironically, in the digital age of the internet, mobile computing, and social media, one can claim or assume to have known someone too much, yet so little has been understood about the silent narrative of someone’s story; and that is regretfully sad and tragic. (— Danny Castillones Sillada, The Unspoken Infinities of Silence)

The internet has eliminated so much wonder and romance.

We feel our heart beat, our lungs expand, our stomach churn—but our brain, lacking motility and having no sensory nerve endings, remains imperceptible to us. The source of consciousness lies beyond the grasp of consciousness.

Like the big collaborative projects of the internet, such as Wikipedia and Firefox, like the decentralized network of websites and machines that make up the internet itself, language is a network, a web. Language is the ultimate participatory democracy. To put it in technological terms, language is humanity's most spectacular open source project.

Being a patriot doesn't mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country, knowing when to protect your Constitution, knowing when to protect your countrymen, from the violations of and encroachments of adversaries. And those adversaries don't have to be foreign countries.

The first thing people hear or see on the internet is the first thing they believe. No matter what the truth is.