Internet
internet million sad people alone together lonely
“Don’t you realize the Internet is just a way for millions of sad people to be completely alone together?”
― Wayne Gladstone
australia happen eighties nemo dad
“Has anything happened in Australia since the eighties? I mean, besides Nemo being reunited with his dad?”
― Wayne Gladstone
technology labor word processor secretary internet productivity
“There has not been a piece of technology designed to save labor that has not increased labor. Word processors allow you to do what your secretary used to do for you. The Internet, BlackBerries, iPhones, yes they keep you tethered, but that's not the main problem. It's that along with increasing personal productivity, they increase the expectation of productivity. It no longer becomes a bonus to do the work of one and a half men, but the norm. And then when everyone’s working at one hundred and fifty percent capacity, they can fire a third of the workforce and still maintain output.”
― Wayne Gladstone
technology labor decrease increase design
“There has not been a piece of technology designed to save labor that has not increased labor,”
― Wayne Gladstone
twitter ant productivity
“Well, reading Twitter’s a lot like staring at an ant farm,” Tobey explained while wiping some cheese from his mouth. “Except without all the productivity.”
― Wayne Gladstone
know trust fuck internet people
“I don't even know who you are. I can't trust you. You're not real. Either of you. Fucking Internet people.”
― Wayne Gladstone
google librarian internet
“Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.”
― Neil Gaiman
believe net
“Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.”
― Douglas Adams (1952-2001)
cyberspace gibson neuromancer
“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...”
― William Gibson, Neuromancer
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“If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.”
― Dorothy Gambrel
distracted distraction internet eliot
“Distracted from distraction by distraction”
― T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
internet humanity understand experiment anarchy
“The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.”
― Eric Schmidt
million monkeys typewriters shakespeare internet
“We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.”
― Robert Wilensky
are share internet
“You are what you share.”
― Charles Leadbeater
truth information knowledge internet
“It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge.”
― Caleb Carr
internet person lonely popular
“Only on the Internet can a person be lonely and popular at the same time.”
― Allison Burnett
conversation king content talk internet
“Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.”
― Cory Doctorow
foresee internet computer industry century
“I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course--the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end.”
― Douglas Adams (1952-2001)
google internet search research
“I did Google him, you know."
"Oh, so you GOOGLED him Oh, well, that changes everything then, doesn't it? What could I possibly worry about now that I know you've conducted such a thorough Internet search?”
― Alyson Noel
communication social technological boring
“Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.”
― Clay Shirky
internet petri dish humanity
“The Internet is the Petri dish of humanity. We can't control what grows in it, but we don't have to watch either.”
― Tiffany Madison
communications trivial tawdry depressing contents
“The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.”
― Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008)
net internet waste of time
“The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.”
― William Gibson
internet species-long project tree savanna communication
"The Internet is part of this ongoing, species-long project we've been working on since we climbed down out of the trees in the savanna. We've been working on it without really knowing it."
― William Gibson