"Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it."
— John Green

"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."
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox)

"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."
— Neal Stephenson (Cryptonomicon)

"Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly. "
— Roger Ebert

"The president said some words, like nouns and verbs. "
— Ze Frank

"Reading, for me, is like this: consumptive, pleasing, calming, as much as edifying. It's how I feel after a good dinner. That's why I do it so often: It feels wonderful. The book is mind and I insert myself into it, cover it entire, ear my way through every last slash and dot. That's something you can do with a book, unlike television or movies or the Internet. You can eat it, or mark it, like a dog does on a hydrant. "
— Tara Bray Smith

"If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up."
— Dorothy Gambrell (Cat and Girl Volume I)

"The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere."
— Ray Bradbury

"Just a reminder, what other people think of you is none of your business."
— Ze Frank

"Generalized statements ... which instill nebulous fear without specific information are exactly in line with the goals of terrorism. "
— Ze Frank

"When I feel the urge to get some fresh air, I connect to the internet."
— Harwinder Singh Bhatia

"[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it, has dramatically increased our social visibility and made it easier for us to find each other but also to be scrutinized in public."
— Clay Shirky (Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations)

"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 Falcon Crest again.'"
— Chuck Klosterman (Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto)

"The nice thing about twitter is the architecture of visibility. Email is invisible unless you reach out to someone directly. With Twitter, anyone can follow you and this is one of the big changes that was really introduced by Flickr, was this wonderful idea that you can follow somebody without their permission. Recognizing that relationships are asymmetrical, unlike facebook where we have to acknowledge each other otherwise we can’t see each other."
— Tim O'Reilly

" 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. "
— William Ford Gibson (Pattern Recognition)

"[The web] is not just about information, [it] is actually about linking people, and about linking people in ways that we've never been linked before."
— Mike Wesch

"The internet means that you don't have to convince anyone else that something is a good idea before trying it."
— Scott Bradner

"Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about."
— Cory Doctorow

"Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring."
— Clay Shirky (Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations)

"A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product."
— Clay Shirky (Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations)

"It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet."
— George W. Bush

"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)

"Das Internet ist das erste Medium, das diese Grenze [zwischen Publikation und Kommunikation] aufhebt."
— Thomas Knüwer

"See you on the other side of the screen, if you make it, earnest cyberspace cadet."
— Crimethinc

"Wie de filosofie van internet kent, kan betere websites bouwen."
— Hedwyg van Groenendaal (Webdesign van concept tot realisatie)

"Al eens geprobeerd een huis te (laten) bouwen zonder bouwtekeningen? Probeer dan ook geen website te bouwen zonder Internet Project Plan."
— Hedwyg van Groenendaal (Webdesign van concept tot realisatie)

"Het gaat om het stellen van de juiste vragen en het verzamelen van zo veel mogelijk relevante informatie."
— Hedwyg van Groenendaal (Webdesign van concept tot realisatie)

"Twee eenvoudige vragen die de basis vormen voor de doelgroepbepaling zijn: Wat is het? Wat komt hij doen?"
— Hedwyg van Groenendaal (Webdesign van concept tot realisatie)

"Wat de bezoeker gewend is op internet, is meestal het beste."
— Hedwyg van Groenendaal (Webdesign van concept tot realisatie)

"[I]m Internet [ist] Aufmerksamkeit eine echte Ware geworden, die sich bereits im Moment ihrer Entstehung vermarkten lässt."
— Sascha Lobo (Wir nennen es Arbeit)

"Das Web 2.0 bedeutet vor allem, dass die soziale Reichweite des Einzelnen größer ist als die Reichweite der eigenen Stimme."
— Sascha Lobo (Wir nennen es Arbeit)

"Maruman does not loll."
— Isobelle Carmody (The Keeping Place)

"Das Netz ist das Ende des Mainstreams [...]"
— Sascha Lobo

"[B]ecause the minimum costs of being an organization in the first place are relatively high, certain activities may have some value but not enough to make them worth pursuing in any organized way. New social tools are altering this equation by lowering the costs of coordinating group action."
— Clay Shirky (Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations)

"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)

"[F]rom now on, the act of creating and circulating evidence of wrongdoing to more than a few people, even if they all work together, will be seen as a delayed but public act."
— Clay Shirky (Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations)

"Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move."
— Clay Shirky (Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations)

"Life is easier when u enjoy what u do."
— textilesinfomediarydotcom

"Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation."
— Clay Shirky (Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations)

"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)

"I like the policy as is it."
— Lisa