Warning: the Internet may contain traces of nuts.
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The Internet is run by a guy named Heisenberg, and his principles are uncertain.~ Kevin G. Barkes, alt.quotations, 3 Oct 2001
Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. - Andrew Brown
The Internet also presents perhaps one of the greatest threats to morality and decency that we face today ... it has the power to corrupt absolutely.
Leo J. Hindery, Jr.
Interactivity has the virtue of democracy, conferring upon everyone with access to a computer the right and opportunity to be heard, but it's also saddled with democracy's vice -- a tendency to assume that everyone who has a right to be heard has something to say that's worth hearing.
Wendy Kaminer, _Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials_
If you don't like the content on the Internet, bring your shining light to make sure others will find something of value. Caring and connectivity go together, and with this God-given capability you can no longer claim powerlessness to change the world. --Frank Odasz
The Internet is as persistent as it is potent, an indelible and uncontainable presence in the culture. In fact, the Internet isn't separate from the culture at all; it *is* the culture. All the trash, flotsam and spillage of our society gets its moment there, where the tiniest obsession has its spot on the shelf, right next to Bach and charity and sunsets. The Internet lets a million flowers bloom, and a million weeds. -- Daniel Okrent, "Raising Kids Online", TIME magazine, 10 May 1999
The Internet causes billions of images to appear on millions of computer monitors around the planet. From this galaxy of sight and sound will the face of Christ emerge and the voice of Christ be heard? - the Pope, Blessing of the Internet., January 24th 2002
Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame. -M G Siriam
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.--spaf@cs.purdue.edu (1992).
On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're a Dog - cartoon by Peter Steiner page 61 of July 5, 1993 issue of The New Yorker,
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