1. The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.-Noam Chomsky
2. The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.-Andrew Brown
3. The internet is global and seemingly omniscient, while iPods and phones are all microscopic workings encased in plastic blobjects. Compare that to a steam engine, where you can watch the pistons move and feel the heat of its boilers. I think we miss that visceral appeal of the machine.-Scott Westerfeld
4. One of the internet’s strengths is its ability to help consumers find the right needle in a digital haystack of data.-Jared Sandberg
5. The internet is just a world passing notes around a classroom.-Jon Stewart
6. There are no secrets on the internet.-Paul Babicki
7. The internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.-Esther Dyson
8. As a research tool, the internet is invaluable.-Noam Chomsky
9. Information flow is what the internet is about. Information sharing is power. If you don’t share your ideas, smart people can’t do anything about them, and you’ll remain anonymous and powerless.-Vint Cerf
10. Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.-John Green
11. A journey of a thousand sites begins with a single click.-Anonymous
12. The problem with this generation is that they believe in social media more than people.-Shihab Kazi
13. The Internet is the most effective instrument we have for globalization.-Milton Friedman
14. All I know is that the Internet will transform the world.-Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
15. I guess the internet and the power of people finding things out for themselves is great.-Butch Walker
16. We are all now connected by the internet, like neurons in a giant brain.-Stephen Hawking
17. The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind.-Phillip Adams
18. The internet changes the structure of society all the time this massiveness made of individuals.-Ai Weiwei
19. The Internet can empower groups whose aims are in fact antithetical to democracy.-Evgeny Morozov
20. The internet is a telephone system that’s gotten uppity.-Clifford Stoll
21. The internet was crucial for our success. It is a great thing. It is a big democracy because people can choose what they like.-Stjepan Hauser
22. The internet is the most powerful magnifier of slack ever invented.-Anonymous
23. The Internet isn’t free. It just has an economy that makes no sense to capitalism.-Brad Shapcott
24. 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
25. The internet is a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean, people without lives. We don’t care. We have each other.-Dave Barry
26. A lot of things you want to do as part of daily life can now be done over the Internet.-Marc Andreessen
27. Just move to the Internet, it’s great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome.-John Green
28. Like most technology, the internet has mixed effects. It’s a neutral instrument.-Noam Chomsky
29. The internet is an lite organization; most of the population of the world has never even made a phone call.-Noam Chomsky