Quotes tagged ‘The internet’

“This isn’t ambiguous anymore: Some of the social products you enjoy as an individual are causing measurable harm around the planet.”

— Damon Beres, medium.com

“Though our actions are visible to almost everyone online, in our primitive monkey brains, when we log in, we are alone.”

— Jesse Weaver, medium.com

“All in all, then, a few half-baked and plagiarized punchlines from puberty are both less revealing and less relevant than an outrage cycle would have us believe.”

— Miles Klee, melmagazine.com

“A raunchy and irreverent corner of the web would be my saving grace, my sanctuary, my safe house.”

— Jon Shadel, them.us

“But the problem with these social media sites isn’t that a few bad apples are ruining the fun. It’s that they’re designed to reward bad apples.”

— Carlos Maza, vox.com

“Molly: How did the kids find it in the first place? Issa: Daniel! He was talking about what a great rapper that I was and the kids must have Googled me. Stupid smart as fuck researching ass kids.”

— Ben Dougan, Issa Dee, Issa Rae, imdb.com

“Sir, you should know that you are not going to find any evidence of terrorism. But you are going to find some very bad things on there. And that is because I used my computer to visit naughty websites of naked women.”

— Richard Day, Raja, Adhir Kalyan, imdb.com

“Zuckerberg was always clear about his loathing of Holocaust denial. The issue isn’t what Zuckerberg thinks; it’s what Facebook does — or doesn’t do.”

— Ezra Klein, vox.com

“Time with family or friends; time with your significant other or your significant others; time alone or with your dog, free from that which hangs over our heads at all times in the air like magic: the web.”

— Kelly Conaboy, thecut.com

“What a terrifying thing for this mom and child: to be far from home, to be separated and not know where the other was. And, in the case of the child (maybe the mother too?), to be unable to speak to those around.”

— Celeste Ng, twitter.com

“Social technology, in all of its varying forms, seems similar to alcohol in a way. Both can be used as an effective lubricant for the socially skittish, but when used in excess, can also damage our ability to hold a coherent conversation without their aid.”

— Rachel Siemens, manrepeller.com

“It's not about hacking computers anymore, it's about hacking human souls.”

— John Green, amazon.com

“If only I were as good at life as I am at the internet.”

— John Green, amazon.com

“Shit isn’t as real as it was when I invented this shit.”

— Tiffany Pollard, thecut.com

“I miss living without the expectation of always being available. I miss the cozy quality of light in a room devoid of glowing screens.”

— Caroline Grace Stefko, medium.com

“There’s no telling where on the internet love might bloom.”

— Emma Court, wsj.com

“going on twitter is like going to the zoo, none of this is real and all of it is bizarre and worth studying”

— Chrissy Stockton, twitter.com

“Sometimes I’m jealous of my girlfriend or my friends. I have to go through my day knowing about this shit. I have to know about Kurt Eichenwald. It feels very self-punishing, self-flagellating in a certain way.”

— Krang T. Nelson, esquire.com

“I got into porn right at the perfect time, when porn stars mattered. Porn stars back then, they were big, glamorous. You walked into a room, you turned heads. Everybody knew who you were because they actually had to buy your product or DVDs, everything. Porn was so naughty, but everybody watched it.…”

— Jesse Jane, gq.com

“Tinder isn’t meeting people. Tinder is 70 percent (a made-up stat) deciding if strangers are hot enough to risk getting murdered, 29 percent typing “hey,” and maybe 1 percent “meeting people."”

— Sophia Benoit, gq.com