Quotes by Internet If you look at the Internet, the vast majority of start-ups are not successful. But the ones that are, are very very successful. So you can't point to the unsuccessful ones and say, 'There's no hope for this field.' It's just that they had the wrong idea or they had bad execution. Evan Williams lookyouinternethope What the Internet is great at is building networks. Evan Williams networksgreatinternetbuilding The idea of changing and fixing the problem of how news is presented on the Internet has been recognized for a long time. Ezra Klein long-timeinternettimelong People set newspapers on fire; they use them for wrapping fish. The Internet does not have that property. What I don't think we've gotten is that you can make things last longer than in print. Ezra Klein youinternetfirepeople It seems odd that at the beginning of the Internet, everyone decided everything should stick around forever. Evan Spiegel everythingbeginninginternetforever The hardcore fanbase of nerds that live on the Internet are not nearly as powerful as I thought they were. They really, really aren't. They also flip-flop like mad. Evan Goldberg livethoughtmadinternet Reading the text of my blog itself is not really the interesting part. The exciting part is how the Internet allows me to be the eyes and ears for the people sending me postings from Africa. Ethan Zuckerman eyesmeinternetpeople The Internet has become a bunch of interlinked but linguistically distinct and culturally specific spaces. There's some interface between them, but there's a lot less than there was years back when we were sort of pretending that this was one great global space. Ethan Zuckerman backgreatinternetspace When I first started doing work on how the Internet is affecting commerce, like a lot of people, I was really excited by this nearly perfect market. Erik Brynjolfsson internetperfectworkpeople For me, the virtual choir has taught me that, if anything, the Internet builds these post-national tribes, people finding each other anyway they can. Eric Whitacre findingmeinternetpeople I happen to be one of the people who believe that the Internet is a force of good, and I'm very optimistic about it. Eric Whitacre goodinternetbelievepeople There's nothing that cannot be found through some search engine or on the Internet somewhere. Eric Schmidt somewheresearchnothinginternet I don't care where I live, so long as there's a roof to keep the rain off my books, and high-speed Internet access. Eliezer Yudkowsky internetcarerainlong The Internet's proven to be a pretty big deal for global society, and Bitcoin could basically be thought of as the Internet, applied to money. Dan Kaminsky thoughtinternetsocietymoney I view Bitcoin as the more democratic version of money and value transfer because no one controls it... I expect the Internet to be around longer than any nation-state, so a nation-state-backed currency is actually less safe than an Internet currency in my mind. Olaf Carlson-Wee valueinternetmoneymind When decentralized blockchain protocols start displacing the centralized web services that dominate the current Internet, we'll start to see real internet-based sovereignty. The future Internet will be decentralized. Olaf Carlson-Wee willstartfutureinternet In a world with many blockchains and hundreds of tradable tokens built on top of them, entire industries are automated through software, venture capital and stock markets are circumvented, entrepreneurship is streamlined, and networks gain sovereignty through their own digital currency. This is the next phase of the Internet. Olaf Carlson-Wee owndigitalinternetworld When we talk about technology changing the world, we often hear about how it makes our lives easier, more connected, safer, or even healthier. They're all things we can easily identify with. The Internet makes our lives easier; services like Skype and WhatsApp allows us to be more connected - the examples are endless. Taavet Hinrikus talkinternettechnologyworld You can't regulate what these kids are being exposed to on the Internet. It's so way out of control. All you can do is just try to talk to your own kids. Pamela Adlon controlyouinternetway For myself, the way that I learned comedy was doing it live for four years, and only after doing sketch for four years did I feel confident enough to be like, 'Okay, I feel good about starting to put stuff on the Internet where it lives forever.' As opposed to one time at a college sketch show where it bombs and we never speak of it again. Rachel Bloom goodmyselfinternettime«7475767778798081828384»
