Internet Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“In today’s knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.”
– Bill Clinton

“I must confess that I’ve never trusted the Web. I’ve always seen it as a coward’s tool. Where does it live? How do you hold it personally responsible? Can you put a distributed network of fiber-optic cable “on notice”? And is it male or female? In other words, can I challenge it to a fight?”
– Stephen Colbert

“I think it’s a good thing that there are bloggers out there watching very closely and holding people accountable. Everyone in the news should be able to hold up to that kind of scrutiny. I’m for as much transparency in the newsgathering process as possible.”
– Anderson Cooper

“There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what’s happening in the nondigital world.”
– Milhaly Csikszentmihalyi

“The new information technology, Internet and e-mail, have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.”
– Peter Drucker

“Thousands of people were producing new Web sites every day. We were just trying to take all that stuff and organize it to make it useful.”
– David Filo

“First of all we had very few users. We might have had a hundred accesses a day. So there was really no demand from the users to add their own links. Things changed over time though as our access rates doubled every month. Through word of mouth on the Net more and more people began using it.”
– David Filo

“The Net as a whole is not that reliable, so our blips in service don’t cause major problems. However, we are certainly working on improving our own reliability as well as those sites that we depend on.”
– David Filo

“The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.’
– Milton Friedman

“In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.”
– Bill Gates

“Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren’t so exciting.”
– Bill Gates

“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”
– Bill Gates

“I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.”
– Bill Gates

“The Internet will help achieve “friction free capitalism” by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.”
– Bill Gates

“Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It’s fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need.”
– Bill Gates

“I have always loved the competitive forces in this business. You know I certainly have meetings where I spur people on by saying, “Hey, we can do better than this. How come we are not out ahead on that?” That’s what keeps my job one of the most interesting in the world.”
– Bill Gates

“We’re responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software.. that’s something we brought to computing. And so it’s a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don’t get in the way of that dream.”
– Bill Gates

“Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers.. organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative.. if we don’t solve these security problems, then people will hold back. Businesses will be afraid to put their critical information on it because it will be exposed.”
– Bill Gates

“We’re at the point now where the challenge isn’t how to communicate effectively with e-mail, it’s ensuring that you spend your time on the e-mail that matters most.”
– Bill Gates

“Having kids has been a fantastic thing for me. It’s meant that I’m a little more balanced. In my twenties I worked massively, hardly took vacation at all. Now, I, with the help of my wife, I’m always making sure I’ve got a good balance of how I spend my time.”
– Bill Gates

“The lnternet is turning economics inside-out. For example, everybody on the internet now wants stuff for free and there are so many free services available.”
– Uri Geller

“I’m a great believer in particularly being alert to changes that change something, anything, by an order of magnitude, and nothing operates with the factors of 10 as profoundly as the Internet.”
– Andrew Grove

“I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really”
– Andrew Grove

“The Internet doesn’t change everything. It doesn’t change supply and demand. It doesn’t magically allow you to build businesses by turning investors’ money into operating expenses indefinitely. The money always runs out eventually.. the Internet doesn’t change that, as we have seen.”
– Andrew Grove

“I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in the purchase fulfillment, but in knowing as much about a customer base of ten or twenty million people as a corner store used to know about a customer base of a few hundred. In today’s mass-merchandising world, that’s largely gone; Amazon is trying to use computer technology to re-establish it.”
– Andrew Grove

“The boom was healthy too, even with its excesses. Because what this incredible valuation craze did was draw untold sums of billions of dollars into building the Internet infrastructure. The hundreds of billions of dollars that got invested in telecommunications, for example.”
– Andrew Grove

“I always had faith in the internet. I believed in it and thought it was obviously going to change the way the world worked. I really did not understand why others were selling their stock. As stock prices plunged, I just bought them, one after another, since I had the money. I guess I was rather lucky.”
– Takafumi Horie

“I feel I’m able to serve my customer by knowing what she or he wants. One of the ways I’m able to do this is through my website, and email: people give me great ideas, tell me what they want, what they don’t want. It’s really instrumental, and helps me stay in touch with people.”
– Kathy Ireland

“I have an almost religious zeal.. not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.”
– Dan Millman

“There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there’s just millions of voices and people want to be heard.”
– Rupert Murdock

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