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The internet7 quotes
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. — Al Gore · 1999As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one. — Mike Godwin · 1994It seems reasonable to envision, for a time 10 or 15 years hence, a "thinking center" that will incorporate the functions of present-day libraries together with anticipated advances in information storage and retrieval... The picture readily enlarges itself into a network of such centers, connected to one another by wide-band communication lines and to individual users by leased-wire services. — J.C.R. Licklider · 1960We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. — Robert Wilensky · 1997The whole human memory can be, and probably in a short time will be, made accessible to every individual. — H.G. Wells · 1937Log off. That "cookies" shit makes me nervous. — Tony Soprano · 2001All 7 quotes →Fake news1 quote
Things get passed around so easily on the internet. And fact becomes fiction and fiction becomes fact, without anyone stepping in to arbitrate and say, what are your sources? — Hilary Mantel · 2015Man and machine1 quote
The whole human memory can be, and probably in a short time will be, made accessible to every individual. — H.G. Wells · 1937Surveillance capitalism1 quote
Log off. That "cookies" shit makes me nervous. — Tony Soprano · 2001Technological progress1 quote
The whole human memory can be, and probably in a short time will be, made accessible to every individual. — H.G. Wells · 1937Truth1 quote
Things get passed around so easily on the internet. And fact becomes fiction and fiction becomes fact, without anyone stepping in to arbitrate and say, what are your sources? — Hilary Mantel · 2015Truth vs. fiction1 quote
Things get passed around so easily on the internet. And fact becomes fiction and fiction becomes fact, without anyone stepping in to arbitrate and say, what are your sources? — Hilary Mantel · 2015