#internet

When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself. ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#anger-management #civics #envy #internet #playerhaters

Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#cliche #global #internet #mind #really

But the truth is that the world has changed. And not participating in the conversation is a loud statement of its own to your customer base. You can’t control your branding message in any case because your customers are already talking about you online. The best you can do is to participate. ↗

— Vanessa Fox

#social-media #social-media-campaign #age

You have 1 billion people using the Internet with 200 million of those now using broadband internet connections, so the Internet has become a powerful network. It can carry calls. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#billion #broadband #calls #carry #connections

Personalization is based on a bargain. In exchange for the service of filtering, you hand large companies an enormous amount of data about your daily life--much of whic you might not trust your friends with. ↗

— Eli Pariser

#privacy #change

Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#internet #communication

The human experience of weakness is God's blueprint for calling attention to the supremacy of his Son. When miserably failing people continue to belong to, believe in, and worship Jesus, God is happy. ↗

— Michael Spencer

#jesus #spirituality #supremacy-of-christ #weakness #experience

The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#modern-life #modern-society #modernity #modernity-is-a-sickness #slavery

Valentine's day without your love is like a year without the Internet. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#internet #love #valentines-day #funny

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#friendship #internet #news #social-networking #friendship