Internet quotations

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◆ Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that he could trace his ancestry back up a long line of slightly less highly evolved stupendous badasses to that first self-replicating gizmo---which, given the number and variety of its descendants, might justifiably be described as the most stupendous badass of all time. Everyone and everything that wasn't a stupendous badass was dead.

- Neal Stephenson99

◆ Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

- Roger Ebert99

◆ The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere.

- Ray Bradbury99

◆ Everyone knows that the Internet is changing our lives, mostly because someone in the media has uttered that exact phrase every single day since 1993. However, it certainly appears that the main thing the Internet has accomplished is the normalization of amateur pornography. There is no justification for the amount of naked people on the World Wide Web, many of whom are clearly (clearly!) doing so for non-monetary reasons. Where were these people fifteen years ago? Were there really millions of women in 1986 turning to their husbands and saying, 'You know, I would love to have total strangers masturbate to images of me deep-throating a titanium dildo, but there's simply no medium for that kind of entertainment. I guess we'll just have to sit here and watch Falcon Crest again.

- Chuck Klosterman99

◆ Reading, for me, is like this: consumptive, pleasing, calming, as much as edifying. It's how I feel after a good dinner. That's why I do it so often: It feels wonderful. The book is mind and I insert myself into it, cover it entire, ear my way through every last slash and dot. That's something you can do with a book, unlike television or movies or the Internet. You can eat it, or mark it, like a dog does on a hydrant.

- Tara Bray Smith99

◆ Maruman does not loll.

- Isobelle Carmody99

◆ Generalized statements ... which instill nebulous fear without specific information are exactly in line with the goals of terrorism.

- Ze Frank99

◆ Distracted from distraction by distraction

- T.S. Eliot99

◆ Just a reminder, what other people think of you is none of your business.

- Ze Frank99

◆ The internet is just a world passing notes around a classroom.

- Jon Stewart99

◆ Only on the Internet can a person be lonely and popular at the same time.

- Allison Burnett99

◆ You are what you share.

- C.W. Leadbeater99

◆ The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

- William Gibson99

◆ History always tells a story... That's why you must always clear it before your dad uses the computer!

- 99

◆ I'm not addicted to facebook! You know, I just use it whenever I have time. Lunch time, break time, bed time, off time, that time, this time, any time, all the time!

- 99