QuoteLog

“The Internet has provided many different environments in which we are able to publish ideas anonymously and interact with others with little or no chance of suffering consequences for bad behavior. It is interesting how our behavior changes, once the danger of having another human being beat us to a bloody pulp for insulting them is taken away.”

“There is only one time in the history of each planet when its inhabitants first wire up its innumerable parts to make one large Machine. Later that Machine may run faster, but there is only one time when it is born. You and I are alive at this moment.”

“How could we create so much, so fast, so well? In fewer than 4,000 days, we have encoded half a trillion versions of our collective story and put them in front of 1 billion people, or one-sixth of the world’s population. That remarkable achievement was not in anyone’s 10-year plan.”

“The original al Qaeda are hiding in the mountains, not a technologically very well-equipped place. Iraq is an urban combat zone. Technology is a big part of that. I don’t know how to distinguish the Internet now from the military campaign in general in Iraq.”

“Clearly, there is no place in modern reporting for this kind of unregulated, unprotected access to readily available facts, let alone in capriciously using them to illustrate areas of concern. We apologise unreservedly, and will cooperate fully in helping Google change people’s perceptions of its role just as soon as it feels capable of communicating to us how it wishes that role to be seen.”

“There’s an old business phrase, from long before the Internet ... ‘Make a customer happy, and he’ll tell a friend. Make a customer angry, and he’ll tell ten friends.’ Today’s digital reality multiplies that by a couple of orders of magnitude.”

“There’s a danger of the internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention.”

“People googling my name and my hometown often find the news story of a fisherman with the same name who was arrested and is currently in prison for killing a baby seal with a harpoon gun. I can’t fully explain how much fun this has created in my life.”

“The e-mail infrastructure is beginning to fail. You’ll see huge delays in e-mail and servers collapsing. It’s the beginning of the e-mail meltdown.”

“The Internet, with its open, distributed structure, was designed to withstand a nuclear attack. If it can do that, it can withstand corporate America.”

“If the government is willing to shell out a few bucks to try to sell people on the idea that people growing Marijuana in their closets are contributing to Terrorism, why can’t they make the same leap with spam? Do we have any evidence that the profits from spam aren’t being funneled to Al-qaeda?”

“If you send me an uncivil email, I may well post, not only the email, but also your email address in hyperlink form. You have been warned: The wages of rudeness is spam.”

“I hear there’s rumors on the Internets...”

“The way I figure it, if my penis enlarged even one percent as much as each email claimed each time I got one of those spams, by now I could write my name on the Moon.”

“After kicking and screaming over the long dormancy, I’ve come to accept that no matter what the IE team does now, it’s not going to actually make much difference in my day to day life for many years yet.”

“We have a policy that we are not being hacked.”

“I know, even your best friend never mentioned that your email makes you look like a moron, but, sorry, it does.”

“It’s amazing how the internet is bringing together people who might have not otherwise meet; and there are a hell of a lot of them. It seems the more active you are online, the more people want a moment of your time.”

“Sorry there hasn’t been a lot of news posted by me lately, I have been very busy with school, exams, the media, new website and settling with Microsoft.”

“Anyone who is tied to physical objects as the only things with monetary value is flat-out unprepared for the Internet and should stay offline.”

“Microsoft, having learned what it needed to know from playing in the public Web space, is now positioning itself to pick up all the e-commerce and go home.”

“Unfortunately the state of affairs on the Internet is such that everybody needs to live in total paranoia.”

“If you absolutely must make sure that I read and respond to your email, there is one way to guarantee that I will do so. Send it via PayPal.”

“It was easy to quickly ascertain that all the featured songs are the same tired dreck I hear every time I turn on the radio. I was finally able to associate band names with songs I’ve heard, though, so I suppose that’s a plus. Now I know whom I hate.”

“Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle. I look at what happened from 1975 to 1985, the first 10 years of the PC adoption cycle. There was huge over-investment in the early 1980s. In the late ’80s there was a huge crash, and the real build-out was from 1990 to 2000. With the Internet, we’re really 10 years into what will ultimately look like a 25-year cycle from invention to full implementation.”

“If you can’t communicate clearly in writing, perhaps the Internet is not the best place for you, eh?”

“Well, we did it! We built the Internet and created the most efficient means in human history for delivering penis enlargement pitches and come-ons from Nigerian scam artists.”

“The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.”

“I just think we’ve been using the wrong metric all along when it comes to the Internet. It’s not necessarily about sales. It’s about communicating with your customer.”

“A vendor’s Big Pipe Box turned casters up and coughed up a lung.”

“Internet companies talk about privacy, but when push comes to shove they’re not going to toss out what gives them market value.”

“It could be a 300-pound lady with a wart for a nose who lives in Duluth, but when she’s on the Net, she’s a mind and a keyboard, and she’s not afraid of you.”

“This company’s incompetence staggers us. Just when we think they can’t get any worse, they exceed all previous feats of non-service. A gibbon with an abacus would do a better job. Lord, if you are listening, smite these evil clowns.”