“The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime. Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.”— Adam Savage, popularmechanics.com
“Facebook is the boyfriend or girlfriend who is too popular to really be a partner with you. They are friends with everyone. Their calendar is too full. Even when you are together, you have to compete with others for their time and attention. It’s exhausting, and the cozy intimacy you crave seems to…”— Jeff Elder, medium.com
“Imagine you’re dating three very different people. Twitter is the high-maintenance, sexy boyfriend or girlfriend you are always swearing off for good because they don’t have a real job.”— Jeff Elder, medium.com
“In order to understand the wonder that the Internet and various other components of the Net represent, we need to understand why the ARPANET Completion Report ends with the suggestion that the ARPANET is fundamentally connected to and born of computer science rather than of the military.”— Michael Hauben, columbia.edu
“The rapid growth of the Internet and the proliferation of electronic resources have created a crushing need for better methods of describing and organizing these resources for efficient retrieval. Interest in such methods extends beyond the library community.”— Lois Mai Chan, amazon.com
“I spend way too many hours on Twitter and I know way more than you think.”— Colleen Ballinger, youtube.com
“Before the Internet, you could laze around on a park bench in Chicago reading some Dean Koontz, and that would be a legit thing to do and no one would ever know you had done it unless you told them.”— Emma Rathbone, newyorker.com
“Last quarter, Twitter beat Wall Street’s estimates when it came to adding new users, but ad revenue declined year-on-year for the first time since it became a public company.”— Lara O’Reilly, wsj.com
“Sometimes, though, porn’s defenders overcompensate. They are too ready to interpret the lack of unequivocal data about porn’s impact as unequivocal proof that there is no impact. In a field as hard to measure as sexual behavior, this seems unwise. Pornography may be more likely to turn us into solip…”— Katrina Forrester, newyorker.com
“Your Internet browser has more X-rated searches than anything else.”— Kenny Thapoung, womenshealthmag.com
“I want to become an uber famous writer someday, just so that when people ask me how I got there I won't smile politely and say, 'I'm blessed.' I'll be like, 'YO. HI. I SLEPT IN MY OFFICE MOTHERFUCKERS. I SPENT YEARS WRITING FOR FREE AND EATING RICE FOR DINNER. I HAD NO SOCIAL LIFE. GOOD THINGS DON'T…”— Heidi Priebe, twitter.com
“I think it's a bit silly to brand the Internet as the downfall of youth.”— Ernest Cline, books.google.com
“My dog used to bring me the newspaper, but now he just forwards me links.”— Stephen Colbert, twitter.com
“There is something so sad about going online and seeing almost everyone shouting ‘Notice me, notice me!’ Which is such a human desire—to be acknowledged. But me responding to that with some sort of ‘You’re noticed, you’re seen’ only perpetuates the loneliness. Because I’m not seeing you; I’m not not…”— Taylor Schilling, ellecanada.com
“I don’t know how introverts survived without the Internet. Or with the Internet. Actually, I don’t know how we survive at all. It feels impossible.”— Amy Schumer, amazon.com