Howard Jacobson Quotes

Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.

The Internet was crucial for our success. It is a great thing. It is a big democracy because people can choose what they like.

We like to think of the Internet as a border-busting technology.

With the Internet, you hear voices that you never knew were out there.

I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

Debate is so much better than denial.

In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.

Human beings are human beings. They say what they want, don't they? They used to say it across the fence while they were hanging wash. Now they just say it on the Internet.

The Internet is an amazing development.

The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites with little or no money behind them - blogs, say, or Wikipedia - can become influential.

Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks.

The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime. Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.

When the Internet first came, I thought it was just the beacon of freedom. People could communicate with anyone, anywhere, and nobody could stop it.

Four years ago nobody but nuclear physicists had ever heard of the Internet. Today even my cat, Socks, has his own web page. I'm amazed at that. I meet kids all the time, who have been talking to my cat on the Internet.

I love the Internet. I love my mobile devices. I love the fact that they mean that whoever chooses to will be able to watch this talk far beyond this auditorium.

The Internet is amazing.

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

Internet is a good and convenient device for us for easy communication. It has lots of value.

Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale has come true.

The great thing about the Internet is that it will not abide by the rules.

The internet is an amazing medium for languages.

The worst and the best that the internet ever did was give everybody a voice.

[Internet] is amazing as much as human beings can be amazing, and it's debased and depraved and vile as human beings can be.

Twitter is really a hyper-distilled version of how the internet should work - short bursts of relatively useful information.

The current days of the Internet will soon be over.