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 | "A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a
dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The
next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can you
stoop?" | |
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Donald Trump
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| "Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet
to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing
a specific task while on line." | |
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Andy Grove
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| "Few influential people involved with the Internet claim that it is a
good in and of itself. It is a powerful tool for solving social problems,
just as it is a tool for making money, finding lost relatives, receiving
medical advice, or, come to that, trading instructions for making
bombs." | |
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Esther Dyson
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| "Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a
fire hydrant." | |
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Mitchell Kapor
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| "I get Canadian porno - that"s the extent of satellite service and
Internet in my house." | |
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Kid Rock
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| "I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought
was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten
years away... it was already here. I just wasn"t aware of it yet." | |
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Bruce Sterling
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| "It shouldn"t be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved
into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of
those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not
just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics." | |
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Denise Caruso
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| "It"s [the internet] like the flu - it just spreads like
crazy." | |
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Jack Welch
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| "Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and
look at the variety of things that they are doing. It"s all really good,
so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth
on the Net." | |
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Meg Whitman
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| "Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it
looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of
fame." | |
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M. G. Siriam
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| "My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the
private world of real creeps without having to smell them." | |
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Penn Jillett
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| "Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down
to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you"re
no longer hungry, but you haven"t been nourished." | |
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Clifford Stoll
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| "Surfing on the Internet is like sex; everyone boasts about doing
more than they actually do. But in the case of the Internet, it"s a lot
more." | |
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Tom Fasulo
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| "The "Net is a waste of time, and that"s exactly what"s right about
it." | |
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William Gibson
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| "The internet is a great way to get on the net." | |
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Bob Dole
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| "The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can"t step on it. You
can"t go around it. You"ve got to get through it." | |
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John Evans
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| "The Internet is not just one thing, it"s a collection of things - of
numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital
language." | |
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Jim Clark
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| "The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide
conversation. The government may not, through the [Communications Decency
Act], interrupt that conversation.... As the most participatory form of
mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection
from governmental intrusion.... The government, therefore, implicitly asks
this court to limit both the amount of speech on the Internet and the
availability of that speech. This argument is profoundly repugnant to
First Amendment principles." | |
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Stewart Dalzell
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| "The Internet"s been so great, and it"s so nice to have fans do nice,
elaborate websites, but I think the down side is some of the things... for
real fans to go on and see that 90 percent of the information isn"t true
or to see pictures that aren"t really me, or for them to be able to sell
these things, that"s one of the down sides, I think." | |
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Denise Richards
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| "Today is a... digital incarnation of Oz - the Internet - we are a
motley group of fools from lions to scarecrows, learning from each other,
making and taking responsibility for our decisions, and having fun as we
skip down the yellow brick road of investing together!" | |
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Lydia Vorsteveld
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| "URLs are the 800 numbers of the 1990"s." | |
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Chris Clark
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| "Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -
massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source
of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it." | |
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Gene Spafford
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| "Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to
read." | |
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Unknown
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| "We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be
more humane and fair than the world your governments have made
before." | |
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John Perry Barlow
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| "We"re making a major move of the Internet, and runway. Polo.com is a
natural extension of both polo.com and our collection business." | |
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Ralph Lauren
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| "We"ve heard that a million monkeys at a keyboard could produce the
Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this
is not true." | |
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Robert Wilensky
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| "Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They
don"t care as much about attractive sites and pretty design." | |
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Tim Berners-Lee
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