Internet has been really amazing, and I think it's a place of great passion, creativity, and knowledge.
When I started eBay, it was a hobby, an experiment to see if people could use the Internet to be empowered through access to an efficient market. I actually wasn't thinking about it in terms of a social impact. It was really about helping people connect around a sphere of interest so they could do business.
No system in the world is so well-designed that it can't grow stale, rigid, or corrupted by those who benefit most from it.
Advertising at its worst will be killed by the Internet. And rightly so.
I have been involved in Internet-related policy for approximately one decade, and I have been using the Internet myself for almost that period of time.
People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.
I was an early adopter: have been on the internet continuously since late 1989, barring a six-month loss of access in the early 90s.
I think there's a lot of unnecessary bullshit on the Internet. You can drown in it.
My opinion, young people go to the Internet. To the Internet distribution system right now, you put it up there and it's accessed by the world.
But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are. We don't get our hair caught in it, but that's the level of primitiveness of where we are. We're in 1908.
People make up rumors and put them on the Internet.
The techniques of being an Internet visionary are just like those of lower-tech fortunetellers through the ages. A technological visionary must tell people what they want to hear, because your company's stock won't rise if you spout an unpopular vision to analysts.
That's what's so great about the Internet. It allows pompous blow-hards to connect with other pompous blow-hards in a vast circle-jerk of pomposity.
Should check the Internet and make sure everything on there is correct.
The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D. C. , which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.
John would have been the first white rapper. And also he would have cherished the Internet.
I stay away from the internet as much as I can. Except for pornography.
These internet trolls are cowards who are poisoning our national life. No-one would permit such venom in person, so there should be no place for it on social media.
I'm pathetic when it comes to the Internet and getting stuff done.
I've always been heavily engaged with my fans on the internet from day one. That connection's one of the reasons why I've been able to enjoy such longevity in my career.