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They say that dogs lick their own genitalia because they can. But I think it's at least partially because they don't have the Internet.
scott adams— Dilbert blog, My day as a Neanderthal (2006-10-25). Archived from the original on 2006-11-07.
Jon Scott Ashjian ... recently made a splash in news reports and Internet blogs by creating a third party, the Tea Party of Nevada, a group dedicating itself to the popular conservative movement.
scott ashjian— Jourdan, Kristi (March 8, 2010). "Tea Party hopeful - gives voters third choice". Las Vegas Review-Journal: p. 1B.
Let's face it, the Internet was designed for the PC. The Internet is not designed for the iPhone. That's why they've got 75,000 applications — they're all trying to make the Internet look decent on the iPhone.
steve ballmer— Ballmer: "The Internet Was Designed For The PC. The Internet Is Not Designed For The iPhone" in Business Insider (21 October 2009)
Enya at the Internet Movie Database The Official Enya Website (Aigle Music)
enya— Unity -The Official Enya Forum
— The Official Enya Discography
From the development of the textile loom two centuries ago to today's Internet, output per hour has increased fifty fold.
Alan Greenspan— Chapter Twenty-Five, "The Delphic Future", p. 471
Roman Pola?ski at the Internet Movie Database Media coverage of the Pola?ski rape trial
Roman Polanski— interview with Samantha Geimer
The thing I've seen about people on the computer and the Internet is that it's addicting. We told him not to get on it, and you turn around and he's on the computer.
carlos zambrano— Dusty Baker
Your needs are big because the Internet is big.
jamie zawinski— Easter eggs, JWZ .
Internet literacy must become universal within the Arab world.
talal abu-ghazaleh— April 1, 2001, First Arab Conference on Arabizing the Internet, Amman, Jordan
Writing, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture.
jane jacobs— Chapter One, The Hazard, p. 5
If anyone ever compiles a list of Internet sites that contribute to Israel’s public relations effort, Johnson's site will probably come in first, far above the Israeli Foreign Ministry's site.
charles foster johnson— Gil Ronen, April 29, 2004 [55]
We know for a fact that the library is the main access point to the Internet outside of the home and workplace. Particularly for young people, information about AIDS, sexuality, suicide could mean the difference between life and death. This law keeps us from giving people access to the information they need.
judith krug— "ACLU, ALA File Law Suit Against Child Internet Protection Act - American Civil Liberties Union, American Library Association Declare Law Unconstitutional - Brief Article" Electronic Education Report (March 28, 2001)
And what's the Internet without the rick-roll?
linus torvalds— YouTube video (2008-03-31).
The Internet is a communication medium that allows for the first time, the communication of many to many, in chosen time, on a global scale.
— Manuel Castells (2001) The Internet Galaxy - Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society Opening, The Network is the Message, p. 2
While there is absolutely nothing humorous or amusing about the statement made by Respondent in his domain name that 'Glenn Beck Raped and Murdered a Young Girl in 1990,' the average Internet user finding the domain name GlennBeckRapedAndMurderedAYoungGirlin1990.com ("Disputed Domain Name") in a search would have no reason not to believe that they will be directed to a website providing factual information (as opposed to protected criticism or similar protected speech) about Mr. Beck.
— Lawyers for Glenn Beck, in Beck supplemental filing in the case; cited in — Hamilton, David (September 9, 2009). "TV Host Glenn Beck to Take Legal Action Against Nasty Domain". Web Host Industry Review (www.thewhir.com). Retrieved on 2009-10-21.
So, perhaps one lesson here is: live by the Constitution, put up with Internet by the Constitution.
— MacNicol, Glynnis (November 10, 2009). "Glenn Beck Loses Lawsuit Over ‘Murder And Rape’ Website". Mediaite (www.mediaite.com). Retrieved on 2009-11-10.
We're very pleased that Judge White recognized the serious constitutional concerns raised by his earlier orders. Attempting to interfere with the operation of an entire website because you have a dispute over some of its content is never the right approach. Disabling access to an Internet domain in an effort to prevent the world from accessing a handful of widely-discussed documents is not only unconstitutional it simply won't work.
— Matt Zimmerman, Electronic Frontier Foundation senior staff attorney, commenting on Bank Julius Baer vs. Wikileaks — reported in Chapman, Glenn (March 3, 2008). "Wikileaks champions whistle blowing after US court triumph". Agence France-Presse.
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
— Al Gore, in a statement often misquoted as "I invented the Internet." CNN Late Edition (9 March 1999)
Most of us employ the Internet not to seek the best information, but rather to select information that confirms our prejudices .
— Nicholas D. Kristof, "Would You Slap Your Father? If So, You’re a Liberal" in The New York Times (27 May 2009)
The real definition of Internet is: "lots of blogs and fat people trying to have sex with you."
— Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka, speaking at the University of Illinois
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Xenophon Xenophon's Works at The University of Adelaide Project Gutenberg e-texts:
— Agesliaus
— Anabasis
— The Apology
— The Cavalry General
— Cyropaedia
— The Economist
— Hellenica
— Hiero
— The Memorabilia
— On Horsemanship
— On Revenues
— The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians
— The Sportsman
— The Symposium
Mike Masnick, a blogger for Techdirt, coined the term 'Streisand effect' for events where attempts to remove content from the Internet cause it to spread broadly instead.
— Dr Alan Glazier (2011). Searchial Marketing. AuthorHouse. p. 146. ISBN 1456738933.
There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the entire works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true.
Ian Hart— 2001In the Sunday Herald, 30 Dec.
Bullying behaviour can be communicated via text, mobile phones, Internet, social networking sites, forums. But we can't limit it because these messages are then reinforced by television which glamorises yelling, swearing and vulgar behaviour as the way to walk the red carpet of acceptance.
louise burfitt-dons— Speech, Tackling Bullying Conference, London (2008-02-27)
Socializing on the Internet is to socializing, what reality TV is to reality.
aaron sorkin— The Colbert Report at 7m35s. Aired 2010/09/30, retrieved 2010/10/16
— said whilst promoting The Social Network in an interview with Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report in defense of not having a Facebook account.
"The Internet has no government, no constitution, no laws, no rights, no police, no courts. Don't talk about fairness or innocence, and don't talk about what should be done. Instead, talk about what is being done and what will be done by the amorphous unreachable undefinable blob called the Internet user base." (2004)
paul vixie— Source: NANOG mailing list
The Internet plumbing years are over - The Internet intelligent years are ahead.
talal abu-ghazaleh— April 1, 2001, First Arab Conference on Arabizing the Internet, Amman, Jordan
If you have any doubt that time is relative, try stretching fifteen minutes' worth of input of over four hours cubicle-cell time with an ultra-slow Internet connection and frequent visits from supervisors.
— Chapter 4, p. 31 (Working Class Zero (2003))
Facebook has now firmly established itself as a hub on the Internet, making it a destination for surfers to do multiple tasks such as communications, gaming, shopping, photo-sharing and information gathering.
— Chris Green - an analyst at the Davies Murphy Group consultancy, quoted on BBC News, "Facebook tops Google searches for UK in 2013", December 17, 2013.
