Web Quotes - page 3

For hundreds of millions of years, Sex was the most efficient method for propagating information of dubious provenance: the origins of all those snippets of junk DNA are lost in the sands of reproductive history. Move aside, Sex: the world-wide Web has usurped your role. (Seth Lloyd)
I know of nothing more terrible than the poor creatures who have learned too much. Instead of the sound powerful judgement which would probably have grown up if they had learned nothing, their thoughts creep timidly and hypnotically after words, principles and formulae, constantly by the same paths. What they have acquired is a spider's web of thoughts too weak to furnish sure supports, but complicated enough to provide confusion. View quote
Ernst Mach
What defines Web 2.0 is the fact that the material on it is generated by the users (consumers) rather than the producers of the system. Thus, those who operate on Web 2.0 can be called prosumers because they simultaneously produce what they consume such as the interaction on Facebook and the entries on Wikipedia. View quote
George Ritzer
A newspaper is the center of a community, it's one of the tent poles of the community, and that's not going to be replaced by Web sites and blogs. View quote
Michael Connelly
I've heard people on panels say, 'You must have a Web site. You need to tweet. Repeat the title of your book constantly,' and I just want to say, 'Shut up. Everything you're saying is wrong.' People will know instantly if your only motivation for tweeting is to sell books. View quote
Maureen Johnson
The web is democratising and also the voice of people who don't think they have another outlet. And that voice can be punitive. View quote
Mary Beard
To be clear, I worry as much about the impact of the Internet as anyone else. I worry about shortening attention spans, the physical cost of sedentary 'surfing' and the potential for coarsening discourse as millions of web pages compete for attention by appealing to our base instincts. View quote
Andrew Weil
Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that I ever existed as a person. They think I'm a nonperson, just a name that signifies a tangled web of pipes or wires or strings that suggest machinery. My name to them is like a spiral staircase, veal cutlets, barber's itch - terms that give you an immediate picture of what they mean. View quote
Rube Goldberg
I'm a public man, my princess. That means my only meaning is the web of signs I publicly inhabit. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
Every thread you discover in the local web of life leads beyond your place to life elsewhere. View quote
Scott Sanders
Once I was in a cafe in Portland and the woman at the next table and I began chatting and in the course of our conversation she strongly recommend I visit this web site called 'The Rumpus' so I could read this advice column called 'Dear Sugar.' It was so painful not to tell her that in fact I was Sugar, but I didn't. (Cheryl Strayed)
I've been a DJ, janitor, ditch digger, waitress, computer instructor, programmer, mechanic, web developer, clerk, manager, marketing director, tour guide and dorm manager, among other things. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Twitter is your window to relevance, but Facebook is your home page for the Social Web. View quote
Brian Solis
The social media web is a very noisy one indeed and making sure that you are heard requires you to shout more effectively, rather than louder. View quote
David Amerland
Real web designers write code. Always have, always will. View quote
Jeffrey Zeldman
Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see. View quote
John Gardner
Everything we do in the digital realm - from surfing the Web to sending an e-mail to conducting a credit card transaction to, yes, making a phone call - creates a data trail. And if that trail exists, chances are someone is using it - or will be soon enough. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
Web sites are designed to keep young people from using the keyboard, except to enter in their parents' credit card information. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
The liberation children experience when they discover the Internet is quickly counteracted by the lure of e-commerce web sites, which are customized to each individual user's psychological profile in order to maximize their effectiveness. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city. View quote
Alison Gopnik
We are defined by the places we hold in the web of others' lives. (Ken Liu)
Life was more difficult in Inkheart, yet it seemed to Meggie that with every new day Fenoglio's story was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful.. View quote
Cornelia Funke
I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web. View quote
Alan Dean Foster
To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child. View quote
Louise Penny
I was involved in a web cartoon of Kung Fu with WB a few years back. View quote
David Carradine