Internet Quotes

The thing that I really care about is making the world more open and connected. What that stands for is something that I have believed in for a really long time. Open means having access to more information, right? More transparency, being able to share things and have a voice in the world. And connected is helping people stay in touch and maintain empathy for each other, and bandwidth.

I think it's totally fair to say we are a very good business," she says. "Not 'we will be,' but 'we are.'

It's like you go to a restaurant and bump into a friend...A lot of the reason why that seems so magical is because it doesn't happen often. But I think the reality is that those circumstances aren't actually rare. It's that we probably miss like 99% of it....When you have this kind of context of what's going on, it's just going to make people's lives richer...maybe now you'll start seeing a lot more of them.

We're trying to map out what exists in the world. In the world, there's trust. I think as humans we fundamentally parse the world through the people and relationships we have around us. So at its core, what we're trying to do is map out all of those trust relationships, which you can call, colloquially, most of the time, friendships.

We're trying to map out what exists in the world. In the world, there's trust. I think as humans we fundamentally parse the world through the people and relationships we have around us. So at its core, what we're trying to do is map out all of those trust relationships, which you can call, colloquially, most of the time, friendships.

I don't believe blogging is dying, but...it's complicated. Like in most healthy ecosystems, new species are breeding. Whether or not they're called "blogging" is a question perhaps best left for scientists, but there are many new forms that are undeniably part of the blogging genus.

We still harbor the illusion that many of our conversations are private or ephemeral, but the company that now owns my very first ISP could have fifteen years of my e-mail on its servers; my instant messages are all logged; my voice-mail messages are now audio files that can be forwarded and archived [...] It may be harder today to guarantee that you are having a private conversation than it was in the Soviet Union.

Fundamentally, privacy is about having control over how information flows. It’s about being able to understand the social setting in order to behave appropriately…. When they feel as though control has been taken away from them or when they lack the control they need to do the right thing, they scream privacy foul.

Fundamentally, privacy is about having control over how information flows. It’s about being able to understand the social setting in order to behave appropriately…. When they feel as though control has been taken away from them or when they lack the control they need to do the right thing, they scream privacy foul.

I don't use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it. I have my e-mail on my BlackBerry, and that's about it. I've never read a blog, ever.

I don't use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it. I have my e-mail on my BlackBerry, and that's about it. I've never read a blog, ever.

It may be time for the tech industry to start paying much more attention to the political world, because as Wikileaks vividly illustrates, these days almost every political issue has tech aspects—and hence, down the road, tech repercussions.

The Internet is an élite organization; most of the population of the world has never even made a phone call.

Thinking of the customer experience, rather than just the user experience, leads to a more complete product.

Follow the cream of the crop in your area of online expertise and learn from them. Network with them.

Twenty years ago no one could have imagined the effects the Internet would have: entire relationships flourish, friendships prosper…there’s a vast new intimacy and accidental poetry, not to mention the weirdest porn. The entire human experience seems to unveil itself like the surface of a new planet.

For the younger generation the Internet is as normal as an electric plug or a water tap, and this is how it has to be.

I miss the old future.

There is almost certainly an evolutionary drive toward increasing complexity in the face of entropy. That’s practically a definition of life. Technology is so powerful and attractive to us because it holds the promise of greater complexity and greater connectedness. Atoms to molecules to cells to organelles to organisms. What’s next? No one knows for sure, but it sure ain’t Facebook.

There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It's a $500 subsidized item. They may make a lot of money. But if you actually take a look at the 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I'd prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them, than I would to have 2% or 3%, which is what Apple might get.