#internet

We become, neurologically, what we think."(33) ↗

— Nicholas G. Carr

#thinking #internet

Annabeth came up to me. She was dressed in black camouflage with her Celestial bronze knife strapped to her arm and her laptop bag slung over her shoulder—ready for stabbing or surfing the Internet, whichever came first. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#percy-jackson #internet

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... ↗

— William Gibson

#cyberspace #internet #internet

Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it. ↗

— John Green

#internet

The day my internet was hooked up was better than having a hot guy check out my butt and ask for my phone number. ↗

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

#internet

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#librarians #internet

To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#contrariness #ebooks #humanity #internet #reading

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. ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#intellectual-sophistication #internet #irony #nerd #nerdery

Internet does not equal sodium pentothal. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#equal #internet #sodium

We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#downloading #find #frightening #internet #like