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64515ca	"Headline?" he asked. "'Swing Set Needs Home,'" I said. "'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'" he said. "'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,'" I said."	humour humor pedophile pedophilia john-green tfios the-fault-in-our-stars internet	John Green
cc677c8	"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 internet?" , Martha said. , George said. "It was my idea!" Hermes said. "I mean the internet, not the rats. But that's not the point."	humor martha percy-jackson hermes internet	Rick Riordan
1b324e1	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...	cyberspace internet	William Gibson
34d01d4	A telkhine was hunched over a console, but he was so involved with his work, he didn't notice us. He was about five feet tall, with slick black seal fur and stubby little feet. He had the head of a Doberman, but his clawed hands were almost human. He growled and muttered as he tapped on his keyboard. Maybe he was messaging his friends on uglyface.com.	percy-jackson internet	Rick Riordan
ba1aeb7	I am charging you with the protection of my mother and friends, not to mention keeping my younger self off the Internet. He is as dangerous as Opal.	kids humor time-travel teenagers internet	Eoin Colfer
f2958c8	Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.	friendship social-networking news internet	Robert A. Heinlein
ae6770c	"Hermes gazed up at the stars. "My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it. 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 Internet?" , Martha said. , George said. "It was my idea!" Hermes said. "I mean the Internet, not the rats."	humor rat george martha percy-jackson hermes internet patience	Rick Riordan
c77432c	Chance favors the connected mind.	innovation insightful internet	Steven Johnson
9865a4b	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.	humor stephenson neal wwii internet	Neal Stephenson
9004430	"The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally."	irony intellectual-sophistication post-ironic sophistication post-modern post-modernism nerdery reddit wisdom-vs-nerds nerdiness nerds nerd internet wit	Nassim Nicholas Taleb
a3d3f84	Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.	death-and-dying television humorous humor wisdom humorous-quotations wisdom-in-fiction internet	Chuck Palahniuk
3dea1d9	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 again.	sex women porn internet technology	Chuck Klosterman
4a703be	I dislike the phrase 'Internet friends,' because it implies that people you know online aren't really your friends, that somehow the friendship is less real or meaningful to you because it happens through Skype or text messages. The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.	john-green internet	John Green
fe1206c	When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.	civics playerhaters the-internet anger-management envy internet	Nassim Nicholas Taleb
413a40f	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.	truth cyberspace internet	Ruth Ozeki
16a7e10	What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.	dating-advice modern-life men-and-women dating internet modernity	Nassim Nicholas Taleb
8fd61b2	The internet is where some people go to show their true intelligence; others, their hidden stupidity.	freedom stupidity intelligence consequence closet cyberspace cyberspace-internet libel prejudices information social-networking online beliefs slander extrovert introvert propaganda media gossip internet technology	Criss Jami
90444d3	With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets.	identity anonymous trolling internet free-speech	Orson Scott Card
2985218	As if I feared that the scope of what I could feel and imagine was being quietly limited by the world within a world, the internet. The things outside of the web were becoming further from me, and everything inside it seemed piercingly relevant. The blogs of strangers had to be read daily, and people nearby who had no web presence were becoming almost cartoonlike, as if they were missing a dimension. It was just happening, like time, like geography. The web seemed so inherently endless that it didn't occur to me what wasn't there. My appetite for pictures and videos and news and music was so gigantic now that if something was shrinking, something immesurable, how would I notice? ...Most of life is offline, and I think it always will be; eating and aching and sleeping and loving happen in the body. But it's not impossible to imagine loosing my appetite for those things; they aren't always easy, and they take so much time.	life need internet	Miranda July
5c3d34e	"The Internet," [Judy] Singer said, "is a prosthetic device for people who can't socialize without it." For anyone challenged by language and social rules, a communication system that does not operate in real time is a godsend."	communication internet	Andrew Solomon
f32b40c	It is a way now, approximately, of being at home. The forum has become one of the most consistent places of her life, like a familiar cafe that exists someone outside geography and beyond time zones. There are perhaps twenty regular posters on F:F:F:, and some muchlarger and uncounted number of lurkers. And right now there are three people in Chat. But there's no way of knowing exactly who until you are in there, and the chat room she finds not so comforting. It's strange even with friends, like sitting in a pitch-dark cellar conversing with people at a distance of about fifteen feet. the hectic speed, and the brevity of the lines in the thread, plus the feeling that everyone is talking at once, at counmter-purposes, deter her.	forum online community internet	William Gibson
3051734	Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication.	computers internet technology	Robert D. Putnam
2f2aaa6	Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories, imagination and irrationality in opposing, contradictory states that existed and didn't exist, all at the same time.	identity truth digital-identity digitalization network social-media meta internet	Robin Wasserman
5890cfd	Immaterial as water, too vast for any mortal apprehension, the Web's outstanding qualities allow us to confuse the ungraspable with the eternal.	internet	Alberto Manguel
0a41b78	"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."	internet	Cassandra Clare and Holly Black
00ac4b5	F. Scott Fitzgerald believed inserting exclamation points was the literary equivalent of an author laughing at his own jokes, but that's not the case in the modern age; now, the exclamation point signifies creative confusion. All it illustrates is that even the writer can't tell if what they're creating is supposed to be meaningful, frivolous, or cruel. It's an attempt to insert humor where none exists, on the off chance that a potential reader will only be pleased if they suspect they're being entertained. Of course, the reader isn't really sure, either. They just want to know when they're supposed to pretend to be amused.	online-writing social-networking internet twitter	Chuck Klosterman
bd60c5a	Information wants to be free.' So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, seems to have said it first. I say that information doesn't deserve to be free. Cybernetic totalists love to think of the stuff as if it were alive and had its own ideas and ambitions. But what if information is inanimate? What if it's even less than inanimate, a mere artifact of human thought? What if only humans are real, and information is not? ... Information is alienated experience.	information internet technology	Jaron Lanier
2c42f82	The possibility of injury or death was a strong attraction: as the online world became more and more pre-edited and slicked up, and as even its so-called reality sites raised questions about authenticity in the minds of the viewers, the rough, unpolished physical world was taking on a mystic allure.	reality truth physicality web danger internet	Margaret Atwood
4619d23	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.	communication-theory la-la-la internet	Neil Postman
fabf45c	"That was supposed to be the whole purpose of the Internet, you know. To share scientific information." "Not a Viagra- and porn-delivery system?"	viagra internet	Christopher Moore
6a68dd2	Our feelings of anxiety are genuine but confused signals that something is amiss, and so need to be listened to and patiently interpreted -- processes which are unlikely to be completed when we have to hand, in the computer, one of the most powerful tools of distraction ever invented. The entire internet is in a sense pornographic, a deliverer of a constant excitement that we have no innate capacity to resist, a seducer that leads us down paths that for the most part do nothing to answer our real needs.	boredom internet-addiction distraction pornography internet	Alain de Botton
22bd36a	"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."	individuals internet	Jon Ronson
0bfa5af	Berners-Lee was supremely lucky in the work environment he had settled into, the Swiss particle physics lab CERN. It took him ten years to nurture his slow hunch about a hypertext information platform.	innovation ideas internet	Steven Johnson
b1220d9	[The Internet] affects democracy... As more and more citizens express what they think, and defend it in writing, that will change the way people understand public issues. It is easy to be wrong and misguided in your head. It is harder when the product of your mind can be criticized by others. Of course, it is a rare human who admits that he has been persuaded that he is wrong. But it is even rarer for a human to ignore when he has been proven wrong. The writing of ideas, arguments, and criticism improves democracy.	writing open-government ideas internet	Lawrence Lessig
2f9d8e8	"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."	internet	Thomas Pynchon
9ca4e11	I have been taunted on various platforms recently for becoming a neo-conservative, and have been the object of some fascinating web-site and blog stuff, from the isolationist Right as well as from the peaceniks, who both argue in a semi-literate way that neo-conservativism is Trotskyism and 'permanent revolution' reborn. Sometimes, you have to comb an overt anti-Semitism out of this propaganda before you can even read it straight. And I can guarantee you that none of these characters has any idea at all of what the theory of 'permanent revolution' originally meant.	politics blogosphere isolationism peace-movement permanent-revolution right-wing-politics trotskyism us-non-interventionism war-on-terror iraq-war neoconservatism propaganda internet	Christopher Hitchens
3477545	Now, see, that's why everybody wants Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy.' Dovey's phone buzzed, and she laughed, ignoring it. 'The trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn't agree with you, all that's left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.	friends human-connection social-media online internet	Barbara Kingsolver
667e6f1	It is good netiquette to use domains that do not allow spam, hate, or violence. NetworkEtiquette.net	surfing-the-internet web internet-manners rules-of-netiquette netiquette netiquette-rules rules-for-netiquette online etiquette internet	David Chiles
a70f64a	In their phones were antennas, and these antennas sniffed out an invisible world, as if by magic, a world that was all around them, and also nowhere, transporting them to places distant and near, and to places that had never been and would never be.	connectivity mobile-phones phones internet	Mohsin Hamid
1c1dec3	It's good netiquette to empathize with others online. It builds strong internet relationships. NetworkEtiquette.net	engage web internet-manners netiquette netiquette-rules rules-for-netiquette social-media online internet	David Chiles
82ad0bf	Being comfortable with online contact is a central part of netiquette. Stay in your zone. NetworkEtiquette.net	rules-of-netiquette netiquette netiquette-rules rules-for-netiquette social social-networking social-media social-network etiquette internet	David Chiles
cff3ccd	Solution - A method of fixing a problem or situation. Solution is a positive Netiquette Word. NetworkEtiquette.net	words good positive-words digital netiquette-rule internet-etiquette netiquette netiquette-rules fix online solution word nice internet	David Chiles
7dd4040	Use Discretion: It is proper netiquette to use discretion, best behavior, in all online activity. NetworkEtiquette.net	online-education tweet tweeting micro-blog web internet-manners internet-etiquette mobile netiquette social-media online manners social-network internet twitter	David Chiles
b482ddf	It's good netiquette to look for every opportunity to compliment others online. NetworkEtiquette.net	digital facebook netiquette-rules rules-for-netiquette social-networking social-media online manners social-network etiquette internet	David Chiles
c4dcaaf	The Internet is complicated. Netiquette is simple. Be nice. NetworkEtiquette.net	etiquette-and-attitude net-etiquette online manners nice internet	David Chiles
096240a	The internet changed the world with data. Netiquette is making it a better place with information. NetworkEtiquette.net	send internet-manners rules-of-netiquette digital-etiquette internet-etiquette netiquette netiquette-rules rules-for-netiquette information share news internet	David Chiles
9360992	It's good netiquette to be yourself online. That is who people like.	digital-manners internet-manners rules-of-netiquette digital-etiquette netiquette netiquette-rules online-etiquette rules-for-netiquette etiquette internet	David Chiles
c7d7366	It is proper netiquette to refrain from using all capital letters in internet correspondence. NetworkEtiquette.net	email facebook linkedin micro-blog internet-manners network-etiquette digital-etiquette internet-etiquette netiquette social-media manners etiquette internet twitter	David Chiles
c4694b3	Effective internet communication is contact that is acted upon in a good manner, Netiquette. NetworkEtiquette.net	net web website rules-of-netiquette mobile netiquette rules-for-netiquette social-media online manners etiquette internet	David Chiles
ff92c20	"Sensing my delight at seeing his laptop, Tom asked me, "William, have you ever seen the Internet?" "No." In a quiet conference room, Tom sat me down at his computer and explained the track pad, how the motion of my fingers guided the arrow on the screen. "This is Google," he said. "You can find answers to anything. What do you want to search for?" "Windmill." In one second, he'd pulled up five million page results-pictures and models of windmills I'd never even imagined."	power-of-the-internet tom-rielly underdeveloped-countries internet technology	William Kamkwamba
777cf08	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.	information-age world-wide-web prescient internet	Julian Barnes
7999b31	"Life will be happier for the on-line individual because the people with whom one interacts most strongly will be selected more by commonality of interests and goals than by accidents of proximity." J. C. R. Licklider and Robert Taylor, "The Computer as a Communication Device," Science and Technology , Apr. 1968."	internet psychology	Walter Isaacson
dec1e91	"Connecting to the outernet was less of a shock this time, as the monitor gave him a sense of distance from it, but it was still annoying. How did these people live with such a system, stalked by advertisements and "free" offers and icons that would take you to another site, unasked-for, the moment you gave them your attention? It was like wending your way through an obstacle course. Perhaps after a while you just learned to tune it all out... or perhaps you could buy programs that did it for you. He would have to design himself one of those before he did any more real work on the outernet, though he suspected that the consumer programs which were stalking him were capable of adapting to anything he could turn out quickly. Advertising: the ultimate predator. He longed for the simplicity of the Gueran network, which simply did what it was supposed to and no more. When had these people lost touch with the fact that the purpose of a network was to facilitate communication, not impede it?"	marketing cyberpunk communication internet	C.S. Friedman
7d2c708	Man darf sich vom medienwirksamen Larm der Informationsindustrie nicht beirren lassen: Die Wirklichkeit der Wirklichkeit wird nicht im Cyber-Cafe gefunden oder in den Suchmaschinen definiert. Sie hat ihr Momentum weiterhin in den relativ langsamen Transportsysteme, die die raumlich Welt erschliessen, auf den Strassen, den Schienen und vor allem den maritimen Routen. Auf denen sich die glucksuche-getriebenen Aktivitaten der unternehmerischen Menschen bewegen.	wirlichkeit internet	Peter Sloterdijk

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"Headline?" he asked. "'Swing Set Needs Home,'" I said. "'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'" he said. "'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,'" I said."

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John Green

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"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 internet?" , Martha said. , George said. "It was my idea!" Hermes said. "I mean the internet, not the rats. But that's not the point."

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Rick Riordan

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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...

cyberspace internet

William Gibson

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A telkhine was hunched over a console, but he was so involved with his work, he didn't notice us. He was about five feet tall, with slick black seal fur and stubby little feet. He had the head of a Doberman, but his clawed hands were almost human. He growled and muttered as he tapped on his keyboard. Maybe he was messaging his friends on uglyface.com.

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Rick Riordan

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I am charging you with the protection of my mother and friends, not to mention keeping my younger self off the Internet. He is as dangerous as Opal.

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Eoin Colfer

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Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.

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Robert A. Heinlein

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"Hermes gazed up at the stars. "My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it. 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 Internet?" , Martha said. , George said. "It was my idea!" Hermes said. "I mean the Internet, not the rats."

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Rick Riordan

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Chance favors the connected mind.

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Steven Johnson

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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.

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Neal Stephenson

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"The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally."

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

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Chuck Palahniuk

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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 again.

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Chuck Klosterman

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I dislike the phrase 'Internet friends,' because it implies that people you know online aren't really your friends, that somehow the friendship is less real or meaningful to you because it happens through Skype or text messages. The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.

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John Green

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When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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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.

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Ruth Ozeki

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What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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The internet is where some people go to show their true intelligence; others, their hidden stupidity.

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Criss Jami

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With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets.

identity anonymous trolling internet free-speech

Orson Scott Card

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As if I feared that the scope of what I could feel and imagine was being quietly limited by the world within a world, the internet. The things outside of the web were becoming further from me, and everything inside it seemed piercingly relevant. The blogs of strangers had to be read daily, and people nearby who had no web presence were becoming almost cartoonlike, as if they were missing a dimension. It was just happening, like time, like geography. The web seemed so inherently endless that it didn't occur to me what wasn't there. My appetite for pictures and videos and news and music was so gigantic now that if something was shrinking, something immesurable, how would I notice? ...Most of life is offline, and I think it always will be; eating and aching and sleeping and loving happen in the body. But it's not impossible to imagine loosing my appetite for those things; they aren't always easy, and they take so much time.

life need internet

Miranda July

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"The Internet," [Judy] Singer said, "is a prosthetic device for people who can't socialize without it." For anyone challenged by language and social rules, a communication system that does not operate in real time is a godsend."

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Andrew Solomon

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It is a way now, approximately, of being at home. The forum has become one of the most consistent places of her life, like a familiar cafe that exists someone outside geography and beyond time zones. There are perhaps twenty regular posters on F:F:F:, and some muchlarger and uncounted number of lurkers. And right now there are three people in Chat. But there's no way of knowing exactly who until you are in there, and the chat room she finds not so comforting. It's strange even with friends, like sitting in a pitch-dark cellar conversing with people at a distance of about fifteen feet. the hectic speed, and the brevity of the lines in the thread, plus the feeling that everyone is talking at once, at counmter-purposes, deter her.

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William Gibson

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Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication.

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Robert D. Putnam

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Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories, imagination and irrationality in opposing, contradictory states that existed and didn't exist, all at the same time.

identity truth digital-identity digitalization network social-media meta internet

Robin Wasserman

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Immaterial as water, too vast for any mortal apprehension, the Web's outstanding qualities allow us to confuse the ungraspable with the eternal.

internet

Alberto Manguel

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"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."

internet

Cassandra Clare and Holly Black

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F. Scott Fitzgerald believed inserting exclamation points was the literary equivalent of an author laughing at his own jokes, but that's not the case in the modern age; now, the exclamation point signifies creative confusion. All it illustrates is that even the writer can't tell if what they're creating is supposed to be meaningful, frivolous, or cruel. It's an attempt to insert humor where none exists, on the off chance that a potential reader will only be pleased if they suspect they're being entertained. Of course, the reader isn't really sure, either. They just want to know when they're supposed to pretend to be amused.

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Chuck Klosterman

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Information wants to be free.' So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, seems to have said it first. I say that information doesn't deserve to be free. Cybernetic totalists love to think of the stuff as if it were alive and had its own ideas and ambitions. But what if information is inanimate? What if it's even less than inanimate, a mere artifact of human thought? What if only humans are real, and information is not? ... Information is alienated experience.

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Jaron Lanier

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The possibility of injury or death was a strong attraction: as the online world became more and more pre-edited and slicked up, and as even its so-called reality sites raised questions about authenticity in the minds of the viewers, the rough, unpolished physical world was taking on a mystic allure.

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Margaret Atwood

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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.

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Neil Postman

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"That was supposed to be the whole purpose of the Internet, you know. To share scientific information." "Not a Viagra- and porn-delivery system?"

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Christopher Moore

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Our feelings of anxiety are genuine but confused signals that something is amiss, and so need to be listened to and patiently interpreted -- processes which are unlikely to be completed when we have to hand, in the computer, one of the most powerful tools of distraction ever invented. The entire internet is in a sense pornographic, a deliverer of a constant excitement that we have no innate capacity to resist, a seducer that leads us down paths that for the most part do nothing to answer our real needs.

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Alain de Botton

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"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."

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Jon Ronson

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Berners-Lee was supremely lucky in the work environment he had settled into, the Swiss particle physics lab CERN. It took him ten years to nurture his slow hunch about a hypertext information platform.

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Steven Johnson

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[The Internet] affects democracy... As more and more citizens express what they think, and defend it in writing, that will change the way people understand public issues. It is easy to be wrong and misguided in your head. It is harder when the product of your mind can be criticized by others. Of course, it is a rare human who admits that he has been persuaded that he is wrong. But it is even rarer for a human to ignore when he has been proven wrong. The writing of ideas, arguments, and criticism improves democracy.

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Lawrence Lessig

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"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."

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Thomas Pynchon

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I have been taunted on various platforms recently for becoming a neo-conservative, and have been the object of some fascinating web-site and blog stuff, from the isolationist Right as well as from the peaceniks, who both argue in a semi-literate way that neo-conservativism is Trotskyism and 'permanent revolution' reborn. Sometimes, you have to comb an overt anti-Semitism out of this propaganda before you can even read it straight. And I can guarantee you that none of these characters has any idea at all of what the theory of 'permanent revolution' originally meant.

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Christopher Hitchens

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Now, see, that's why everybody wants Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy.' Dovey's phone buzzed, and she laughed, ignoring it. 'The trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn't agree with you, all that's left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.

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Barbara Kingsolver

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It is good netiquette to use domains that do not allow spam, hate, or violence. NetworkEtiquette.net

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David Chiles

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In their phones were antennas, and these antennas sniffed out an invisible world, as if by magic, a world that was all around them, and also nowhere, transporting them to places distant and near, and to places that had never been and would never be.

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Mohsin Hamid

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It's good netiquette to empathize with others online. It builds strong internet relationships. NetworkEtiquette.net

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David Chiles

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Being comfortable with online contact is a central part of netiquette. Stay in your zone. NetworkEtiquette.net

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David Chiles

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Solution - A method of fixing a problem or situation. Solution is a positive Netiquette Word. NetworkEtiquette.net

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David Chiles

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Use Discretion: It is proper netiquette to use discretion, best behavior, in all online activity. NetworkEtiquette.net

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David Chiles

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It's good netiquette to look for every opportunity to compliment others online. NetworkEtiquette.net

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David Chiles

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The Internet is complicated. Netiquette is simple. Be nice. NetworkEtiquette.net

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David Chiles

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The internet changed the world with data. Netiquette is making it a better place with information. NetworkEtiquette.net

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David Chiles

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It's good netiquette to be yourself online. That is who people like.

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David Chiles

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It is proper netiquette to refrain from using all capital letters in internet correspondence. NetworkEtiquette.net

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David Chiles

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Effective internet communication is contact that is acted upon in a good manner, Netiquette. NetworkEtiquette.net

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David Chiles

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"Sensing my delight at seeing his laptop, Tom asked me, "William, have you ever seen the Internet?" "No." In a quiet conference room, Tom sat me down at his computer and explained the track pad, how the motion of my fingers guided the arrow on the screen. "This is Google," he said. "You can find answers to anything. What do you want to search for?" "Windmill." In one second, he'd pulled up five million page results-pictures and models of windmills I'd never even imagined."

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William Kamkwamba

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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.

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Julian Barnes

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"Life will be happier for the on-line individual because the people with whom one interacts most strongly will be selected more by commonality of interests and goals than by accidents of proximity." J. C. R. Licklider and Robert Taylor, "The Computer as a Communication Device," Science and Technology , Apr. 1968."

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Walter Isaacson

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"Connecting to the outernet was less of a shock this time, as the monitor gave him a sense of distance from it, but it was still annoying. How did these people live with such a system, stalked by advertisements and "free" offers and icons that would take you to another site, unasked-for, the moment you gave them your attention? It was like wending your way through an obstacle course. Perhaps after a while you just learned to tune it all out... or perhaps you could buy programs that did it for you. He would have to design himself one of those before he did any more real work on the outernet, though he suspected that the consumer programs which were stalking him were capable of adapting to anything he could turn out quickly. Advertising: the ultimate predator. He longed for the simplicity of the Gueran network, which simply did what it was supposed to and no more. When had these people lost touch with the fact that the purpose of a network was to facilitate communication, not impede it?"

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C.S. Friedman

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Man darf sich vom medienwirksamen Larm der Informationsindustrie nicht beirren lassen: Die Wirklichkeit der Wirklichkeit wird nicht im Cyber-Cafe gefunden oder in den Suchmaschinen definiert. Sie hat ihr Momentum weiterhin in den relativ langsamen Transportsysteme, die die raumlich Welt erschliessen, auf den Strassen, den Schienen und vor allem den maritimen Routen. Auf denen sich die glucksuche-getriebenen Aktivitaten der unternehmerischen Menschen bewegen.

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