Neal Stephenson Quotes

The older you get, the more you realize you cannot win on the Internet.

I try not to read the Internet because it's mostly just a sea of hatred.

Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing and meanness and profanity and wrong information screamed at me as gospel, I'll get in a time machine and spend Christmas with my family in 1977.

Blogs are evil. Actually, the blogs aren't as evil as blog comments.

I've never been in a 'Twitter fight,' though I've witnessed my fair share. I do enjoy vigorous and informed debate, but the benefit is lost when the exchange becomes a series of petty ad hominem attacks. I don't see much value in it.

Some of my fans don't really like it when I respond to people who say things that are trying to be hurtful on social media. But I think it's kind of funny. There's a lot of things that make me laugh, that people would try and say those things. I mean, there's some that I can't even retweet or respond to just because of how bad it is.

I try not to read blogs. The comments are extremely harsh.

If I have one technology tip of the day, it's this: No matter how good the video on YouTube is, don't read the comments, just don't, because it will make you hate all humans.

When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated - but haters are losers. It's not good to feed this aspect. It's more intelligent to be constructive.

The only time that I really go on Twitter is to promote, because what sucks is there's some weird trolling going around. Even if you are well-intentioned, there's some mean people behind a keyboard.

It's very much the currency of discourse on social media where political disagreements very quickly become very personalised.

I've scaled back my involvement with Twitter; it's too easy to get dragged into an argument.

I definitely deserve to be trolled.

There's so much stuff flying around online, and it's so easy to get into arguments with people.

I feel everybody gets trolled. There is no one who hasn't got trolled on social media. I guess trolling has become norm of social media where people enjoy belittling everybody.

I am often invited to speak at colleges, and whenever I do Q and A's, a question that inevitably comes up is, 'How do you put up with the blogosphere?' It's a valid question, and I don't really know what answer to give. The truth is that I don't know what to do.

Norman Parke needs to stay off of Twitter before he gets himself in a fight he can't win.

The chances of me getting trolled are very high because of the films I do. But I only read the good things.

People moan about Twitter, people being rude and trolling. Just turn it off. Life goes on.

I'm not one for reading comments or reading what people say online because, generally, there's a lot of negativity.

I've tried to stop reading comments online because if you believe everything, it makes you feel like rubbish.

If you've spent any time on social media, you may have had the misfortune of coming up against a cowardly troll who hides behind a Twitter handle or Facebook page to criticize or attack you for any number of grievances, real or perceived.

I troll, I'm trolled.

I'm very heavily trolled, but one learns to ignore such thing.

Social media enables us to talk about issues, shine a light on problems, and raise awareness of struggles that might have gone unnoticed. On the flipside, it also allows for a lot of noise and distractions. Sometimes it doesn't create the best environment for a healthy discussion and can lead to trolling.