Ryan Holiday Quotes

I don't like to read the Internet; I'm not aware of what's going on.

More and more women are going online.

I'm no online whiz, but I'm not a Luddite, either. I love that we have these laptops and tablets and smart phones; they're awesome and convenient and all that. It's more about maintaining balance. Technology should always be a predicate of the true subject: our individual humanity, our examined lives.

Every pastor, youth pastor, and every parent is in competition with the Internet and the information it is spreading. Most young people don't get their news from CNN or CBS; they get it from bloggers.

The Internet has compromised the quality of debate.

I'm not really part of the Internet world, my age a factor in that and a lack of interest in sharing with so many, so little, so much, so often.

I'm not really about spending every second on social media. I think there's a lot more useful things you can do with your time.

I think social media has reinvigorated people's enthusiasm to be active and to engage.

We have to start thinking of ourselves as citizens of the Internet, not just passive users. I don't see how we can bring about change in our digital lives if we don't take responsibility.

The use of the Internet, the use of Twitter, the way protest movements developed... This is a different world.

I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.

I don't follow anything online. I am rather slow on that side.

As a society, we haven't spent as much time building the citizen Internet.

While I have never learned to use a computer, I am surrounded by family and friends who carry information to me from blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and various websites.

We need to be smarter than our smart phones and realize the people we are with are more important than the people we aren't with, and way more important than the strangers we hope will tweet and like and share and Instagram whatever we're sending out into the cybersphere.

I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.

I started using the Internet when I was 12 years old. I would go into chat rooms and flirt. It was the beginning of the Internet for young people.

The whole, 'Is the Internet a good thing or a bad thing'? We're done with that. It's just a thing. How to maximise its civic value, its public good - that's the really big challenge.

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

If you look where kids are spending time on the Net, they may have all the information in the world, but they're not accessing it.

I'm not on Twitter or Facebook or anything. I just feel like my life is better without it.

I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.

Caricatured as navel-gazers, Millennials are said to live for their 'likes' and status updates. But the young people I know often leverage social media in selfless ways.

I don't have social media, and I'm not, I guess, that adept at being on the Internet.

Web publishing can create common spaces; it all depends on how we, the readers and sometimes the producers, react to technological change. If we sort ourselves into narrow groups, common spaces will be in big trouble. But there's no reason not to have common spaces on the Internet. There are lots of them out there.