Quotations About the
Internet & Computers
"Actually, I just looked in the phone book, but the Web sounds so
cool."
(Daria
episode, line spoken by the character Jane Lane)
"And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious
surfing."
Scott Adams
(Dilbert
comic strip, 6 June 1999. Line spoken by the Pointy-Haired Boss)
"Damage to information is inflicted almost entirely
by human actions and rarely by equipment failures."
Paul A. Strassmann
(Knowledge Management column, February 2001, p. 12)
"Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by
pack rats and vandalized nightly."
Roger Ebert
(Yahoo! Internet Life
column, Sept. 1998, p. 66)
"Even God cannot alter the way a search engine works."
Employee of Indian portal site Rediff.com
(Wired News article,
4 December 2000)
"Grow up on the Internet, get off on t.v."
Sleater-Kinney
("God Is a
Number")
"Hell, that's why it's the 'net.' Something is going to
grab your ass, like a spider, something will suck you from the inside
out, just like a fly."
Professor Griff
(Music2Showcase
interview, May 2002)
"I think the reality is that preventing dissemination on the
Web is like exterminating cockroaches. We could put centuries of
effort into the problem, but hackers will still scurry out from
under the cookie jar."
Sheldon Pacotti
(Are
We Doomed Yet?, Salon, 31 March 2003)
"I worry more about poor quality of information online, and students' lack
of skills for evaluating information, than I worry about frequently discussed
evils like pornography."
University of Washington Internet researcher Malcom Parks
(Quoted in
Newsweek
, 10 May 1999, p. 48)
"Look, the Internet is basically a tool for buying things and
for pornography. When it becomes more than that, it will become extremely
dangerous."
Caleb Carr
(Wired interview, December 2000, p. 102)
"Put me in a room with a pad and a pencil and set me up against a hundred
people with a hundred computers -- I'll outcreate every goddamn sonofabitch in
the room."
Ray Bradbury
(Wired
interview, Oct. 1998, p. 147)
"Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art
is everything else."
Donald Knuth
(Quoted in
Wired
, Nov. 1999, pp. 28-31)
"Show me a computer expert that gives a damn, and I'll show you
a librarian."
Patricia Wilson Berger
(Quoted in Chicago Tribune article,
29 June 1990, Tempo section, p. 1)
"The mass of mankind withdrew to its terminals and clicked
away, and those afflicted with philosophical scruples allowed themselves to be
cajoled into believing that they were promoting the democratic cause of a free
exchange not only of goods and information but of ideas as well."
Caleb Carr
(Killing Time. Random House, 2000, p. 58)
"We didn't know about a World Wide Web
Was a whole different game being played
Back when I was a kid."
Everclear
("AM Radio")
"You can't shut us down! The Internet is about the
free exchange and sale of other people's ideas!"
(Futurama
episode. Line spoken by an executive of Nappster.com)
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