Web Quotes

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! (Walter Scott)
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. View quote
William Blake
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. View quote
Pablo Picasso
Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly. View quote
Roger Ebert
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive. View quote
Ogden Nash
When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web... Now even my cat has its own page. View quote
Bill Clinton
Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains blends yearning and repulsion and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement. View quote
George Eliot
Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch. View quote
John Dryden
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. View quote
Chief Seattle
When I grew up there was no web, blogging or tweeting. In fact, where I grew up there was not even television! I met a lot of my friends in school and in college, and they are still my friends today. (Indra Nooyi)
People are reading news for free on the web, that's got to change. View quote
Rupert Murdoch
Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel. View quote
Tryon Edwards
Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network. View quote
Tim Berners-Lee
Google did a great job hacking the Web to create search - and then monetizing search with advertising. And Apple did a great job humanizing hardware and software so that formerly daunting computers and applications could become consumer-friendly devices - even a lifestyle brand. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project. View quote
Andy Hertzfeld
And I also have a camera, a Web cam, and I have one at home, so I can hook up and talk to the girls, and they can see me while we're on the bus in the middle of nowhere. View quote
Lee Ann Womack
The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society. View quote
Mike Fitzpatrick
Yes, there is a ton of information on the web, but much of it is egregiously inaccurate, unedited, unattributed and juvenile. View quote
John Updike
In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin. View quote
Michael Shermer
We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy Of water pure and fair; We sowed in youth a mustard seed, We cut an almond rod; We are now grown up to riper age— Are they withered in the sod? (Charlotte Brontë)
By putting the means of production into the hands of the masses but withholding from those same masses any ownership over the product of their work, Web 2.0 provides an incredibly efficient mechanism to harvest the economic value of the free labor provided by the very, very many and concentrate it into the hands of the very, very few. View quote
Nicholas G. Carr
Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the cooperating causes of all things which exist; observe too the continuous spinning of the thread and the contexture of the web. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell. View quote
Stephen L. Carter
I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it. View quote
Louise Bourgeois