#internet

I'm chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science; help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#communications #get #global #help #how

I mean, you go to the internet and you can see all these conversations and arguments that our fans have about our music and that's wonderful to know, that people would take the time to be that involved. ↗

— Alex Lifeson

#conversations #fans #go #i #internet

There should be a background check every time a firearm is transferred. You shouldn't be able to go to a gun show and buy guns without a background check. There are Internet gun sales, classified ads in the newspapers - and you can buy guns without background checks. ↗

— Michael D. Barnes

#ads #background #buy #check #checks

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. ↗

— Dave Barry

#call #communication #development #history #human

The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat. ↗

— Dave Barry

#chat #future #internet #shaping #society

But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are. We don't get our hair caught in it, but that's the level of primitiveness of where we are. We're in 1908. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#get #hair #internet #level #machine

We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone. ↗

— Richard Branson

#believe #box #british #computer #consumers

Internet penetration in Italy is quite low and the Berlusconi media machine controls most of what people see. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#internet #italy #low #machine #media

Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address - just one - this country would use up one third of the entire public IP address space. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

#china #country #entire #even #everyone

What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing - or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax - that you can do on the public switched telephone network. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

#another #exception #fax #internet #just