#internet

I read on the Internet that I was dead. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#i #internet #read

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

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

The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#classroom #internet #just #notes #passing

But don't get caught out there looking goofy. It's weird. When you do something that stinks, it's going to last forever on the Internet. There's always someone in the audience with a camera phone and if you're not 100%, you're going to be watching yourself on YouTube. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#audience #camera #caught #forever #get

There's a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you can have all of Google in your pocket. It's a difference in degree that's so enormous it becomes a difference in kind. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#around #becomes #being #between #calls

I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#being #break #country #explain #flattened