Ann Patchett Quotes

In an odd sort of way, the computer and the Internet is the hermit's ideal form of communication. You don't have to see anyone. To send an email, you don't have to talk to anyone. You can just send it, and they'll read it on their own. The Internet has been really good for hermits.

I don't understand the world of the Internet. I just type up on my computer.

I'm not good at the modern world.

Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.

The Internet has empowered us. It has empowered you, it has empowered me, and it has empowered some other guys as well.

The Internet is an open sewer of unfiltered, untreated information. The Internet can make you smarter, faster than anything else in the world. It can also make you dumber faster.

I love the Internet, but I think you have to only use it in the ways that are good for you. I think there's so much speculation that happens.

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.

The Internet, as a platform, I think is really fantastic.

Reading about what a digital native thinks of the Internet is like reading about what it's like to blink: it's kind of boring.

When we heard that little dial-up sound, that eeeeee, and then you connected, and you then go and you check your mail and you get that 'you got mail,' you were excited. I mean, that was the thing.

As the world grows and technology grows, it's getting harder to communicate and for kids to socialize.

That Bill Clinton. He probably doesn't know how to log on to the Internet.

I'm not a big internet guy - not because I'm not interested in what people have to say, but probably because I'm too interested.

Ordinary Chinese are also getting unprecedented access to information. More than half a billion Chinese now use the Internet.

Cyberspace never sits still; it evolves as fast as society itself. Only if we fight to preserve our freedom of speech on the Net will we ensure our ability to keep up with both the Net and society.

The Internet is the single biggest creator of ignorance mankind has ever created, as well as the single biggest eliminator of that ignorance. It’s our ability to filter that eliminates the former and empowers the latter.

We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.

The Internet is fundamentally free, and when faced with the decision to use something free, we, as humans, always seek to grab all we can.

Kids are growing up with a bombardment of information through technology.

I believe that the Internet is the information highway. I'm religious about this. I don't think it's cable television.

Information technology and the Internet are rapidly transforming almost every aspect of our lives - some for better, some for worse.

I don't understand the interweb.

When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.

If you look at all the technology we're interconnected with every day, all this complex technology that connects humanity, it actually doesn't connect us.