Internet quotations

These are a few of my favourite quotations.

…if I look at my 16 year old daughter, for her bandwidth is a big issue because one of her main aims in life is to steal intellectual property from other people.
Simon Willis, Director, Internet Business Solutions Group, Cisco Systems
Evidence to Trade & Industry Committee, House of Commons Oct 2004

The Internet is about the free exchange and sale of other people's ideas.
Futurama cartoon

I love the Internet because that is truly a way to make money while you're sleeping.
Sandra Bate, Bates International Motor Home Rental Systems, Inc

The "fast as light" pace of the Internet can kill or establish an idea quicker than a marketing department can come up with an ad campaign.
Wiring the World

My favourite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.
Penn Jillett

On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
Peter Steiner, New Yorker

Surfing on the Internet is like sex - everyone boasts about doing more than they actually do. But in the case of the Internet, it is a lot more.

Look, the Internet is basically a tool for buying things and for pornography. When it becomes more than that, it will become extremely dangerous.

And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing.
Scott Adams - Dilbert

The Internet, of course, is more than a place to find pictures of people having sex with dogs.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Time Magazine

The Internet is a shallow and unreliable electronic repository of dirty pictures, inaccurate rumours, bad spelling and worse grammar, inhabited largely by people with no demonstrable social skills.
Chronicle of Higher Education April 1997

If you leave this web site, I will kill this defenseless toilet.
Homepage - the unofficial Dave Barry website

Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach that person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks.

Personal Web pages are the '90s equivalent of home video, except that you don't have to visit someone else's house to fall asleep - you can do so in the comfort of your own home.
Ray Valdes

Oh, they have the internet on computers now.
Homer Simpson

When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.
Bill Clinton

We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.

Like with drugs, you have to teach your kids about the Internet and possible dangers.

Hayley Cropper: There's a lot more than porn on the internet.
Janice Battersby: That's news to me.
Coronation Street, ITV Soap, 16 May 2005