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Damn it all, MacMurrough, are you telling me you are an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort?’‘If you mean am I Irish, the answer is yes.
— Jamie O'Neill, At Swim, Two Boys
Do you want to kill his love for you? What sort of existence will he have if you rob him of the fruits of his ambition, if you take him from the splendour of a great political career, if you close the doors of public life against him, if you condemn him to sterile failure, he who was made for triumph and success? Women are not meant to judge us but to forgive us when we need forgiveness. Pardon, not punishment, is their mission. Why should you scourge him with rods for a sin done in his youth, before he knew you, before he knew himself? A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. A women's life revolves around curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that man's life progresses. Don't make any terrible mistake, Lady Chiltern. A woman who can keep a man's love, and love him in return, has done all the world wants of women, or should want of them.
— Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
The pure and simple truth is, the truth is never pure and simple.
— Oscar Wilde
No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.
— Oscar Wilde
Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art.Vice and virtue are the artist’s materials for an art. From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view of feelings, the actor’s craft is the type. All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectators, and not life, that art really mirrors.
— Oscar Wilde
He was a man of most subtle and refined intellect. A man of culture, charm, and distinction. One of the most intellectual men I ever met.""I prefer a gentlemanly fool any day. There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.
— Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
The optimist sees the doughnut but the pessimist see 452 calories and a shed load of sugar ...
— James Minter, The Hole Opportunity - Bronze Winner for Adult Fiction, Wishing Shelf Book Awards 2013
All the quips in the world couldn’t prevent Oscar Wilde from becoming a lovesick fool.
— David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing
... Likewise, Oscar Wilde asked an English journalist to look over 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' before publication: "Will you also look after my 'wills' and 'shalls' in proof. I am Celtic in my use of these words, not English." Wilde's novel upset virtually every code of late Victorian respectability, but he had to get his modal auxiliaries just right.
— Andrew Elfenbein, Romanticism and the Rise of English
the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failure. a
— Oscar Wilde
The drawback of stealing a thing, is that one never knows how wonderful the thing that one steals is.
— Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
You dislike Basil because, without his art, his life is horribly plain. Unlike Dorian who has made an art out of his life. Basil produces art; Dorian consumes it and lets it overwhelm him.
— Abed Yaman
Marriage is a matter for common sense.""But women who have common sense are so curiously plain, father, aren't they? Of course I only speak from heresay?""No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex.
— Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
For his mourners will be outcast menAnd outcasts always mourn...
— Oscar Wilde
Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.
— Oscar Wilde
WILDE: Oh — Bosie! (He weeps.) I have to go back to him, you know. Robbie will be furious but it can't be helped. The betrayal of one's friends is a bagatelle in the stakes of love, but the betrayal of oneself is a lifelong regret. Bosie is what became of me. He is spoiled, vindictive, utterly selfish and not very talented, but these are merely the facts. The truth is he was Hyacinth when Apollo loved him, he is ivory and gold, from his red rose-leaf lips comes music that fills me with joy, he is the only one who understands me. 'Even as a teething child throbs with ferment, so does the soul of him who gazes upon the boy's beauty; he can neither sleep at night nor keep still by day,' and a lot more besides, but before Plato could describe love, the loved one had to be invented. We would never love anybody if we could see past our invention. Bosie is my creation, my poem. In the mirror of invention, love discovered itself. Then we saw what we had made — the piece of ice in the fist you cannot hold or let go. (He weeps.)
— Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love
Oh bless Speranza, for giving her son such a preposterous name as Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde.
— Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
To lose one parent might be considered a misfortune, or a reason to deny God’s existence at the least. To lose two looks like He may be up to something.
— Johnny Rich, The Human Script
She lives the poetry she cannot write.
— Oscar Wilde
De Profundis by Oscar Wilde (this excerpt inspired my book, The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap. Wilde wrote it to his lover while in prison.)When first I was put into prison some people advised me to try and forget who I was. It was ruinous advice. It is only by realizing what I am that I have found comfort of any kind. Now I am advised by others to try on my release to forget that I have ever been in a prison at all. I know that would be equally fatal. It would mean that I would always be haunted by an intolerable sense of disgrace, and that those things that are meant for me as much as for anybody else – the beauty of the sun and moon, the pageant of the seasons, the music of daybreak and the silence of great nights, the rain falling through the leaves, or the dew creeping over the grass and making it silver – would all be tainted for me, and lose their healing power, and their power of communicating joy. To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
— Paulette Mahurin
Yet the roses are not less lovely for all that
— Oscar Wilde
Yet ruled he not long, so great had been his suffering, and so bitter the fire of his testing, for after the space of three years he died. And he who came after him ruled evilly.
— Oscar Wilde, The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.
— John Green
It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inventing the internet-""You invented the inte
— Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...
— William Gibson, Neuromancer
Certainly it constitutes bad news when the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit.
— Philip K. Dick
Aunt Prue was holding one of the squirrels in her hand, while it sucked ferociously on the end of the dropper. 'And once a day, we have ta clean their little private parts with a Q-tip, so they'll learn ta clean themselves.' That was a visual I didn't need. 'How could you possibly know that?' 'We looked it up on the E-nternet.' Aunt Mercy smiled proudly. I couldn't imagine how my aunts knew anything about the Internet. The Sisters didn't even own a toaster oven. 'How did you get on the Internet?' 'Thelma took us ta the library and Miss Marian helped us. They have computers over there. Did you know that?
— Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures
Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly. 
— Roger Ebert
If you're insulting people on the internet, you must be ugly on the inside.
— Phil Lester
The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.
— Eric Schmidt
Be careful who you choose as your hero or who you choose to deify, be it Clay Aiken or Barack Obama. You put all you're hope and all your dreams and all your ideas about stuff into one human being. They're a human being they're going to let you down. You can't make someone your hero because of something you read on the internet. The internet is not a source of information it is a source of disinformation.
— Craig Ferguson
It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge.
— Caleb Carr
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
— William Gibson
The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere.
— Ray Bradbury
The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance. Now...cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.
— Ben Elton, Blind Faith
Everyone says that the internet is so awesome because you can connect with people from all over the world, but I think it’s the opposite. The internet doesn’t make it easier to connect with anyone—it just makes it so you don’t really have to.
— Sarah Ockler, Bittersweet
He found a set of encyclopedias—like Wikipedia, but paper and very bulky.
— Michael  Grant, Gone
I did Google him, you know.""Oh, so you GOOGLED him Oh, well, that changes everything then, doesn't it? What could I possibly worry about now that I know you've conducted such a thorough Internet search?
— Alyson Noel, Fated
I'm on the Internet. I stay informed. They let old people on the Internet, you know.
— Stephen Emond, Winter Town
Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.
— Edward Snowden
I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course--the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end.
— Douglas Adams
I mean, all this stuff you're involved in, it's all gossip. It's people talking about each other behind their backs. That's the vast majority of this social media, all these reviews, all these comments. Your tools have elevated gossip, hearsay and conjecture to the level of valid, mainstream communication. And besides that, it's fucking dorky.
— Dave Eggers, The Circle
The funny thing about my procrastination was that I was almost done with the screenplay. I was like a person who had fought dragons and lost limbs and crawled through swamps and now, finally, the castle was visible. I could see tiny children waving flags on the balcony; all I had to do was walk across a field to get to them. But all of a sudden I was very, very sleepy. And the children couldn't believe their eyes as I folded down to my knees and fell to the ground face-first, with my eyes open. Motionless, I watched ants hurry in and out of a hole and I knew that standing up again would be a thousand times harder than the dragon or the swamp and so I did not even try. I just clicked on one thing after another after another.
— Miranda July, It Chooses You
My Google-fu is strong.
— China Miéville, Kraken
My blog is a collection of answers people don’t want to hear to questions they didn’t ask.
— Sebastyne Young
the internet are the ultimate enemy of unconditional commitment
— Hubert L. Dreyfus
In the Information Age, the first step to sanity is FILTERING. Filter the information: extract for knowledge.Filter first for substance. Filter second for significance. These filters protect against advertising.Filter third for reliability. This filter protects against politicians.Filter fourth for completeness. This filter protects against the media.
— Marc Stiegler, David's Sling
A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.
— Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
The internet is 95 percent porn and spam
— Margaret Atwood
Personalization is based on a bargain. In exchange for the service of filtering, you hand large companies an enormous amount of data about your daily life--much of whic you might not trust your friends with.
— Eli Pariser, The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think
The party at the bar was for an Internet literary journal that prints a hard copy version that was famous in the world of Internet literary journals that prints hard copy versions. What that means, I do not know.
— Noah Cicero, Best Behavior
See you on the other side of the screen, if you make it, earnest cyberspace cadet.
— CrimethInc.
Some say the Internet is for porn but you know that in truth the Internet is for spam.
— Charles Stross, Rule 34
We worried for decades about WMDs – Weapons of Mass Destruction. Now it is time to worry about a new kind of WMDs – Weapons of Mass Disruption.
— John Mariotti
...he found it where he should have looked first, on the Internet, which is a net indeed, one that can be cast further than the eye can see and be retrieved no matter how heavy the hall, its magical mesh never breaking under the strain but always bringing in the most amazing catch.
— Yann Martel, Beatrice and Virgil
1973 Fair Information Practices:- You should know who has your personal data, what data they have, and how it is used.- You should be able to prevent information collected about you for one purpose from being used for others.- You should be able to correct inaccurate information about you.- Your data should be secure...while it's illegal to use Brad Pitt's image to sell a watch without his permission, Facebook is free to use your name to sell one to your friends.
— Eli Pariser, The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You
In 2011, Mark Brooks, a consultant to online-dating companies, published the results of an industry survey titled “How Has Internet Dating Changed Society?” The survey responses, from 39 executives, produced the following conclusions:“Internet dating has made people more disposable.”“Internet dating may be partly responsible for a rise in the divorce rates.”“Low quality, unhappy and unsatisfying marriages are being destroyed as people drift to Internet dating sites.”“The market is hugely more efficient … People expect to—and this will be increasingly the case over time—access people anywhere, anytime, based on complex search requests … Such a feeling of access affects our pursuit of love … the whole world (versus, say, the city we live in) will, increasingly, feel like the market for our partner(s). Our pickiness will probably increase.”“Above all, Internet dating has helped people of all ages realize that there’s no need to settle for a mediocre relationship.”From "A Million First DatesHow online romance is threatening monogamy" in January/February 2013
— Dan Slater, A Million First Dates: Solving the Puzzle of Online Dating
That was supposed to be the whole purpose of the Internet, you know. To share scientific information.""Not a Viagra- and porn-delivery system?
— Christopher Moore, The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror
Because Wikipedia is a process, not a product, it replaces guarantees offered by institutions with probabilities supported by process.
— Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
There are no secrets on the Internet
— Paul Babicki
The economy blows, or don't you read the papers?""Who reads the fucking papers? News is free on the internet.
— Jonathan Maberry, Dead of Night
The Internet is not so different from a highly interactive videogame with competitors set to be offed.
— Audacia Ray, Naked on the Internet: Hookups, Downloads, and Cashing in on Internet Sexploration
The internet, where everything is free except porn sites.
— Larry Moniz
I always wonder why condescending snarkiness is the chosen method of communication for so many forum users. It seems to me like these things would be much better expressed in non-confrontational, polite manner.
— Gavin Dunne
The basic capabilities of tools like Flickr reverse the old order of group activity, transforming 'gather, then share' into 'share, then gather'.
— Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
I think the way I feel about the internet is the way some people feel about the ocean. It's so huge and unknowable, but also totally predictable. You type a line of symbols and click enter, and everything you want to happen, happens.Not like real life, where all the wanting in the world can't make something exist.
— Becky Albertalli, The Upside of Unrequited
Immaterial as water, too vast for any mortal apprehension, the Web's outstanding qualities allow us to confuse the ungraspable with the eternal.
— Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the 21st century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant information. People just don't know what to pay attention to, and they often spend their time investigating and debating side issues.
— Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Creating our own realities is nothing new, but now it’s easier than ever to become trapped in echo chambers of our own making.
— Jamie Bartlett, The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld
Part of living in a free society is accepting that no idea is beyond being challenged or ridiculed, and that nothing is more stifling to free expression than being afraid to upset or offend.
— Jamie Bartlett, The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld
Rule 36: There is always more fucked-up shit than what you just saw.
— Jamie Bartlett, The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld
The day internet stops functioning forever
—  so many works will get missing forever!
Although the Internet could be making all of us smarter, it makes many of us stupider, because it's not just a magnet for the curious. It's a sinkhole for the gullible. It renders everyone an instant expert. You have a degree? Well, I did a Google search!
— Frank Bruni
Internet," she said sagely. "Expanding the frontiers of adolescent knowledge.
— Jim Butcher, Death Masks
To not be photographed daily, even by oneself, to not be recorded and videoed and dispersed into the turbulent winds of the net, was to court nonexistence.
— David Cronenberg, Consumed
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— Mikelrenaldo
We're all connected now, I think as I send it off into cyberspace. Everyone and everything.
— J.P. Delaney, The Girl Before
Since the 1970s, there has been a continual tendency to over-estimate the surveillance capacities of new technologies. In the sense of the physical invasion of privacy, surveillance comprises five sequential events: the capacity to observe; the act of observation; comprehension of what is seen; intervention on the basis of that knowledge; and a consequent change of behaviour by the subject. Too often the final four have been assumed from the possibility of the first.
— David Vincent, Privacy: A Short History
The internet is an endless field of cow crap. To find the diamond amongst that crap you need to eat it first.
— Lloyd S.R
Does this mean that religious consumption will increase online? That could be. We do not know yet, but to expect religion to disappear because of online technology is like expecting people to stop listening to music because Napster, Spotify and Wimp are offering us all the music we want online
— Torkel Brekke, Faithonomics: Religion and the Free Market
We need to be wise consumers of information in an age of artificially created reality, written by professional propagandists, bought and paid for by special interests who many times disguise themselves as grassroots movements but are nothing but AstroTurf. They’ll give you turf burns and turf toe, but never the truth.
— H.L. Wegley
I apologize to my priestess. I underestimated her. I equated her with the global media, which is where I found those easily digestible raw materials for my banal and bourgeois account of My Life with Poor Terminal Celestine. There are so many blogs and articles in the 'Living' sections of online newspapers pouring out the synthetic emotions and the mundane details and the shocking bodily consequences of any disease you can think of or even invent. Honestly, Celestine and I felt we had to fully understand the phenomenon of the internet, because consumerism and the internet had fused, they had become one thing, even though on a certain level it was anathema to us, noxious to the strange, introverted, and, yes, relentlessly snob personal culture we had spent years developing together. But also we realized we needed the net in order to understand what was the basic human condition, what a current human being really was, because we had lost touch with that, our students made that clear to us, and so we were also using the internet to research our roles playing normal human beings.
— David Cronenberg, Consumed
Millions of us daily take advantage of [Skype], delighted to carry the severed heads of family members under our arms as we move from the deck to the cool of inside, or steering them around our new homes, bobbing them like babies on a seasickening tour. Skype can be a wonderful consolation prize in the ongoing tournament of globalization, though typically the first place it transforms us is to ourselves. How often are the initial seconds of a video's call takeoff occupied by two wary, diagonal glances, with a quick muss or flick of the hair, or a more generous tilt of the screen in respect to the chin? Please attend to your own mask first. Yet, despite the obvious cheer of seeing a faraway face, lonesomeness surely persists in the impossibility of eye contact. You can offer up your eyes to the other person, but your own view will be of the webcam's unwarm aperture. ... The problem lies in the fact that we can't bring our silence with us through walls. In phone conversations, while silence can be both awkward and intimate, there is no doubt that each of you inhabits the same darkness, breathing the same dead air. Perversely, a phone silence is a thick rope tying two speakers together in the private void of their suspended conversation. This binding may be unpleasant and to be avoided, but it isn't as estranging as its visual counterpart. When talk runs to ground on Skype, and if the purpose of the call is to chat, I can quickly sense that my silence isn't their silence. For some reason silence can't cross the membrane of the computer screen as it can uncoil down phone lines. While we may be lulled into thinking that a Skype call, being visual, is more akin to a hang-out than a phone conversation, it is in many ways more demanding than its aural predecessor. Not until Skype has it become clear how much companionable quiet has depended on co-inhabiting an atmosphere, with a simple act of sharing the particulars of a place -- the objects in the room, the light through the window -- offering a lovely alternative to talk.
— Laurence Scott, The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World
He didn’t have regular email like everyone else. He couldn’t afford that digital fingerprint that the NSA, the CIA, the FBI and all the other espionage alphabeticals counted on for their privacy-bashing surveillance of the entire formerly free world.
— Kenneth Eade, Russian Holiday
The Internet was a wonderful invention. It was a computer network which people used to remind other people that they were awful pieces of shit.
— Jarett Kobek, I Hate the Internet
Once upon a time, in the not-so-distant past, very weird people were effectively isolated from all the other very weird people.But today, the internet makes it possible for very weird people from anywhere on the planet to get on the internet and talk to one another.
— Caliban Darklock
Prior to the age of telegraphy, the information-action ratio was sufficiently close so that most people had a sense of being able to control some of the contingencies in their lives. What people knew about had action-value. In the information world created by telegraphy, this sense of potency was lost, precisely because the whole world became context for news. Everything became everyone's business. For the first time, we were sent information which answered no question we had asked, and which, in any case, did not permit the right of reply.
— Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
He tried to look up more about magical curses online – but as usual, the internet wasn’t a huge help, and mostly just its best to convince him he was about to die. - 'Only Human' by Meredith Katz
— Meredith Katz, Less Than Dead
Cyber void is so full of amazing emptiness that makes us feel fulfilled.
— Munia Khan
Okay, I have internet but it's limited and here on the web the information is countless.
— Deyth Banger
Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others
— Jon Postel
On the internet skin colour can not be seen, we are all one in this new dimension.
— Darren Paul Thorn
I kept remembering something Michael Fertik had said to me at the Village Pub in Woodside. 'The biggest lie,' he said, 'is "The Internet is about you." We like to think of ourselves as people who have choice and taste and personalized content. But the Internet isn't about us. It's about the companies that dominate the data flows of the Internet.
— Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
That's the thing about the internet: it doesn't simply help us find the best thing out there; it has helped to produce the idea that there is a best thing, and, if we search hard enough, we can find it.
— Aziz Ansari, Modern Romance
The best way to vanquish your enemies on the Internet? Ignore them. 
— Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
In theory, the Internet provides an opportunity to widen knowledge-to see beyond screens and neighborhoods into a broader universe-and yet the first thing many people want to do is wall themselves off and broadcast how narrow-minded they are. It seems to absolutely miss the point of the experience.
— Jason Gay, Little Victories: Perfect Rules for Imperfect Living
A lot of people are on the internet searching for fifteen minutes of fame I've been on it so long and so often I'm looking for fifteen minutes of Freedom
— Stanley Victor Paskavich, Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries
...CompuServe, and it was not sophisticated, guys. It was the cave painting equivalent to Tumblr.
— Felicia Day, You're Never Weird on the Internet
It is critical that both North and South work collectively for facing the online challenges in defeating the criminals but we also need to ensure that the internet remains a platform for freedom of expression and uncensored information otherwise, it will have a negative impact on social economic development.
— Arzak Khan
Technology itself is not to blame. The fault lies in ourselves, because having no means to orient ourselves, we turn elsewhere towards other resources. Heidegger makes the point that our culture lacks something needed to maintain a clearly defined sense of boundaries. In order to fill the vacuum caused by this lack, we turn to the most readily available and powerful technological force accessible to us, and today, this is the Internet
— Chris Bloor, Facebook and Philosophy: What's on Your Mind?
People with fewer economic resources have very limited opportunity for joining the global internet economy.
— Arzak Khan
The impact of the internet on economic development is shifting in two important directions. First, given the aging population and near-saturated market penetration in the advanced economies, most of the expansion of the internet related market will take place in developing countries like Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh. Secondly, the globalization of the internet is expected to increase the share of developing countries in the internet economy presenting a historic opportunity for the young and poor in Pakistan to improve their economic condition.
— Arzak Khan
We should refrain from adopting laws that would allow countries with poor scorecard on human rights to exploit backdoors on techs for silencing dissent.
— Arzak Khan
...Few more seconds....let's just check out this and this and this... one more minute.... OH, OH my god it's 12 P.M. and times has went so fast... (The Computer Effect!)
— Deyth Banger
described the Internet as “a series of intestines, laid out by a goatherd’s son, spewing bile at both ends
— Matt Ruff, The Mirage
I’m just surprised your parents let you go online,” Call said. It was such a regular, non-fancy way to waste time. When he imagined her outside the Magisterium, having fun, he imagined her riding a polo pony, although he wasn’t exactly sure what that was or how it was different from a regular pony.
— Cassandra Clare, The Iron Trial
You can FEEL the wave of emotion online when something is about to go viral, good or bad. A scientist I met once mathematically compared internet behavior to swarm behavior seen in starlings or locusts.
— Felicia Day, You're Never Weird on the Internet
If you have half a nothing - sell it for a double something, resell half at double-price, and buy another something and a half - how much nothing will you have two days from then? Like three. Because three is the short version of π, and π is involved in virtually anything, in some form, if you believe what the internet tells you.
— Will Advise, Nothing is here...
Each one of us is a creator. And together, we are The Creator.
— Jim Gilliam, The Internet is My Religion
If God is humanity connected, then the internet is God incarnate; a manifestation of our connection, a rudimentary form of hyperconnected humanity.
— Jim Gilliam, The Internet is My Religion
The Internet Was Made For Business
— Waasay Uddin
Scott's friends on the forum didn't know his big picture. They read a phrase like "It's going to kill me to live without him" for its precise meaning, and nothing else. They didn't read more than those nine words into the message. They didn't take offense, didn't try to talk him out of it. Didn't resent it for its presumed relativity."Of course it is," they said. And it was the same way they'd responded to every other thing he'd told them about himself: his thoughts on parenting, on marriage and sex, on education and race. They read what he wrote, and only what he wrote, and they responded. Not always in agreement - he'd had plenty of heated discussions over the past year on this issue or that. But he didn't need yes-men any more than he needed someone to read twenty-one extra words into the nine he'd written.
— Julie Lawson Timmer, Five Days Left
You know, what I've always done is take a look through a book, look at the paper stock, the printing, the publisher, the actual content, and, taking everything into account, I price it. . . . And now I can't. The fact that I can check this book . . . — the fact that I can check this book on the Internet means that I have to check this book on the Internet.
— Deborah Meyler, The Bookstore
The idea that a dysfunctional thought could take root in a vacuum, the individual anonymous and wraithlike, unknowable because, especially at first, he or she had no interaction with other people. Because more and more in the modern Internet era you came across isolated instances of a mind virus or worm: brains that self-washed, bathed in received ideologies that came down from on high, ideologies that could remain dormant or hidden for years, silent as death until they struck. Almost anything could happen now, and did.
— Jeff VanderMeer, Authority
She no longer lived in a world of speculation or recall and would take nothing on faith when the facts were but a few clicks away. It drove me nuts. I was sick to death of having as my dinner companions Wikipedia, About.com, IMDb, the Zagat guide, Time out New York, a hundred Tumblrs, the New York Times, and People magazine. Was there not some strange forgotten pleasure in reveling in our ignorance? Would we just be wrong?
— Joshua Ferris, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
He was certifiably insane, an Ayn Rander who fancied himself an Übermensch and “the Singularity’s chosen avatar,
— Jonathan Franzen, Purity
New technologies, be it the printed encyclopedia or Wikipedia, are not abstract machines that independently render us stupid or smart. As we saw with Enlightenment reading technologies, knowledge emerges out of complex processes of selection, distinction, and judgment—out of the irreducible interactions of humans and technology. We should resist the false promise that the empty box below the Google logo has come to represent—either unmediated access to pure knowledge or a life of distraction and shallow information. It is a ruse. Knowledge is hard won; it is crafted, created, and organized by humans and their technologies. Google’s search algorithms are only the most recent in a long history of technologies that humans have developed to organize, evaluate, and engage their world.
— Chad Wellmon
Look at it, every day more lusers than users, keyboards and screens turning into nothin but portals to Web sites for what Management wants everybody addicted to, shopping games, jerking off, streaming endless garbage-
— Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge
And his computer's spell-check always forces him to capitalize the word "Internet". Come on; World War Two earned it's capitalization. The Internet just sucks human beings away from reality.
— Douglas Coupland
It is proper ‎Netiquette to watch television online via native ‎app when using ‪mobile.
— David Chiles
It was as impersonal as the Internet itself, the object responsible for connecting you to long lost people in your life, and many new ones, none of whom you will ever see.
— Kenneth Eade, Killer.com
Google's colourful, playful logo is imprinted on human retinas just under six billion times each day, 2.1 trillion times a year - an opportunity for respondent conditioning enjoyed by no other company in history.
— Julian Assange
The Internet is what you make of it, obviously . . . But the Internet has also been a great aggregator of anxiety and an enabler of our worst tendencies. It has allowed us to trumpet our own opinions, to win attention by broadcasting our laziest and cruelest judgments, to grind axes in public. It has made us feel, in some perverse sense, that we are entitled to do so.
— Steve Almond
Violence is stupid. Peace is prosperous. Education is necessary. Practice proper Netiquette. NetworkEtiquette.net
— David Chiles
The information superhighway is littered with so much roadkill.
— Andy Seven, Iron Curtain Baby
Life is meant to explore the world, not computer.
— Vijay Dhameliya
Never underestimate a viral trend on the Internet
— Pedro Hugo García Peláez
Are we all, at heart, just Internet trolls?
— Sarah Lotz, The Three
If the Internet were planet Earth, the amount of space devoted to pregnancies, motherhood, infants, and toddlers would surely fill a continent. Of course, the Internet had an enormous investment in the subject: those future babies would be its next generation of users.
— Christopher Bollen, Orient
In terms of the Internet, it's like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previously we were more like a [?], like a collection of cells that communicated by diffusion. With the advent of the Internet, it was suddenly like we got a nervous system. It's a hugely impactful thing.
— Elon Musk
The internet is now a forum for public prosecution.
— David Cronenberg, Consumed
If the only hammer you are given is the Internet, it's not surprising that every possible social and political problem is presented as an online nail.
— Evgeny Morozov
It is proper Netiquette to contribute free resources to the internet, share. NetworkEtiquette.net
— David Chiles
Never forget that you live in an ecosystem designed to disrupt you and it will take you for a ride if you let it.
— Michael  Harris
With the explosion of the internet has come numerous avenues for small business owners to share their expertise and position themselves as experts. And expertise is what consumers are looking for.
— Diane Helbig, Thriving in the New Economy
What use is the internet if not for spreading pixels of happiness?
— Isis Sky
When the internet came in, Hulaki became a dinosaur.
— Mahesh Poudyal, Hulaki
Companies don't exist, and at the end of the day it is people make every decision in buisnesses. Human beings, not some feastious machine programmed solely for the improvement of efficiency and revenue generation. Companies are not machines. They are not dogs, as IGN bizarrely put it. They aren't even an entity. They are merely a banner to represent the activities of humans.
— Samyoul Online
I have too Many Cookies? what do you think?
— kiran dev
I was already at one remove before the Internet came along. I need another remove? Now I have to spend the time that I'm not doing the thing they're doing reading about them doing it? Streaming the clips of them doing it, commenting on how lucky they are to be doing all those things, liking and digging and bookmarking and posting and tweeting all those things, and feeling more disconnected than ever? Where does this idea of greater connection come from? I've never in my life felt more disconnected. It's like how the rich get richer. The connected get more connected while the disconnected get more disconnected. No thanks man, I can't do it. The world was a sufficient trial, Betsy, before Facebook.
— Joshua Ferris, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
Now everything is sold on the Internet and anybody at all who doesn't know a thing can give their opinion.
— Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg, The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules
All this electromagnetic pollution in the air from the Internet and cell phones, it cuts you off from God.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods
Your computer monitor is a kind a one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click.
— Eli Pariser, The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You
Search engines finds the information, not necessarily the truth.
— Amit Kalantri
I mean, scamming on guys on the Internet? I thought that was only for forty-year-old divorcees who Photoshop their pictures in an effort to appear younger and thinner.
— Lauren Barnholdt, Two-Way Street
It's proper Netiquette to protect data with passwords. NetworkEtiquette.net
— David Chiles
The internet makes every online action memorable. Practice proper Netiquette for good memories. NetworkEtiquette.net
— David Chiles
The Internet is dumb. The Internet, with all its access to brain research, anthropology journals, social studies networks, and biographies and autobiographies, can't begin to map the complexity of our lives, or how we each affect others.
— Dee Williams
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. ... The Goliath of totalitarianism will be brought down by the David of the microchip.
— Ronald Reagan
It's good netiquette to judge others by the the intent of their words not content of characters. NetworkEtiquette.net
— David Chiles
Ignorance is a bliss. One does not simply believe everything they see on the Internet. If an individual has full swag control and mastery of the deception of swag, one could have easily seen through this 'troll'. This is why learning the basic 4 swag principles and mastering them is extremely necessary. Basically, one must AT least master the 4 elements of swag in order to see through deception and perceive where the swag count energy is being emitted from. this state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking , where it is absent, discussion is adapted to become worse than useless. My title as 'Man of Swag' can never be replaced. I am Swag
— Batuhan Ibal
The internet changed the world with data. Netiquette is making it a better place with information. NetworkEtiquette.net
— David Chiles, The Principles Of Netiquette
Can we talk real for a minute then? Do you "really" think that your problem is that you just need to gather more information and data before you start to "do" better with your commitment to yourself? Or isn't the real truth more like -> you are already educated with enough information - beyond your level of behavioral obedience to what you already know! You don't need to "know more" to get going- you simply need to buckle down and get real about "doing better" with what you already know.
— Scott Abel
The first move was to turn to the one great, perfectly visible and certified revolution in the recent history of the human race [the Google search-engine].
— Nicola Lagioia, Bringing It All Back Home: A Novel
Smartphones control us with assistance Netiquette provides guidelines for right and wrong. NetworkEtiquette.net
— David Chiles
Life without the Internet is unimaginable.
— Santosh Kalwar
I used to have a lot of faith in humanity before the advent of the website "comment" section.
— Jim Gaffigan, Dad Is Fat
You're not a book person. And now you're not an internet person? What does that leave you?
— Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
But people in masks were always assholes. It was a scientific law. Give someone anonymity and all social niceties break down. The Internet had proven that.
— Chelsea Cain, Let Me Go
It is extremely obvious to me that the internet is a religious phenomenon
— Peter Lamborn Wilson, Millennium
(I'm not online.) I don’t have a fax. I don’t go in for any of that stuff. The typewriter is as far as I went.
— Walter Kaylin, He-Men, Bag Men, and Nymphos
It is good netiquette to use domains that do not allow spam, hate, or violence. NetworkEtiquette.net
— David Chiles, The Principles Of Netiquette
Potentially, anyone writing on the Web can reach a global audience. In practice, hardly anyone ever does.
— Nick Cohen, You Can't Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom
Learn the netiquette before you participate in new online activities. NetworkEtiquette.net
— David Chiles, The Principles Of Netiquette
The Internet is complicated. Netiquette is simple. Be nice. NetworkEtiquette.net
— David Chiles, The Principles Of Netiquette
When I go to the bathrooms, I cannot take off my pants as before; because there is a light continuously blinking like a camera, everyone says it is just an environmental friendly lighting. Well, I cannot really trust it and I am not taking the risk of circulating my naked photos around.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
It made me sad when I caught myself pretending that everybody out there in cyberspace cared about what I thought, when really nobody gives a shit. And when I multiplied that sad feeling by all the millions of people in their lonely little rooms, furiously writing and posting to their lonely little pages that nobody has time to read because they’re all so busy writing and posting, it kind of broke my heart.
— Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.
— Tim Berners-Lee
. . . I can see how the issue of exercising corporate control over users content is truly enraging here, on a site significantly made by these contributors. It’s unavoidable that we come to this, in my opinion (corporations always do), and GR/Amazon has all keys to the kingdom, but I can see why it’s so disappointing and enraging.Your content is theirs to do with as they please, their software works as they want, your choices are take it or leave it.The Internet is no longer for sharing (nor for porn!), it’s for corporations to exercise their control over users.
— G.R. Reader, Off-Topic: The Story of an Internet Revolt
Maxim 33:If you're leaving tracks, you're being followed.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
— Howard Tayler
It’s easy to fall in love online with someone you’d slide away from on a bus stop bench. A little too damn easy.
— Michael Makai, Domination & Submission: The BDSM Relationship Handbook
Universe has it all for you, just ask.
— Victoria Vorel, Title Un Click Que Cambio Mi Vida
When the earliest Vikings started moving into the northern oceans, there’s one story about finding this huge fuckin opening at the top of the world, this deep whirlpool that’d take you down and in, like a black hole, no way to escape. These days you look at the surface Web, all that yakking, all the goods for sale, the spammers and spielers and idle fingers, all in the same desperate scramble they like to call an economy. Meantime, down here, sooner or later someplace deep, there has to be a horizon between coded and codeless. An abyss.”“That’s what you’re looking for?”“Some of us are.” Avatars do not do wistful, but Maxine catches something. “Others are trying to avoid it. Depends what you’re into.
— Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge
In practice, the Internet functions more frequently as a hive of distraction, a simulated world through which most of us flit from one context to the next . . .
— Steve Almond
The dangerous charm of GPC was that everything in the world could be called up; if you didn't look out, a couple of sessions might turn you from a serious enquirer into a mere gape-mouthed browser.
— Julian Barnes, Staring At The Sun
Yep, and your Internet was their invention, this magical convenience that creeps now like a smell through the smallest details of our lives, the shopping, the housework, the homework, the taxes, absorbing our energy, eating up our precious time. And there’s no innocence. Anywhere. Never was. It was conceived in sin, the worst possible. As it kept growing, it never stopped carrying in its heart a bitter-cold death wish for the planet, and don’t think anything has changed, kid.
— Thomas Pynchon
The Internet, my fickle friend, my two-faced enemy, what would life be like without you? Where else can I be anonymously anyone and yet, have no anonymity at all?
— Susan Schussler, Between the Raindrops
Those who can, do; those who can't, teach; those who can't teach, police grammar on the Internet.
— Ruadhán J. McElroy
I love my haters, they rage and rage and all they do is spreading my word.
— James Yeager
The 2 greatest equalizers in life: Education and the Internet.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
We are a generation that is obsessed with nostalgia. Everything from the past is so readily available in ways that it never was before and because of that, western civilization will experience a period of arrested growth. The future holds fifty-year-old men and women running Disney Princess blogs. Bank on it.
— Jayme K.
We face the most compelling era of mankind: exponential growth of new technologies, cheaper electronic devices and the globalization of knowledge, commerce, and ideas along with the rapid growth of emerging markets of colossal sizes will generate the best opportunities, connections, higher risks and challenges for everyone.
— Franz Christian Israel Digital Entrepreneurs.
But you know better than anyone how the Internet sees everything and nothing, all at the same time.
— Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life
The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.
— Lionel Shriver, Big Brother