Jess Phillips Quotes

There is something almost sacred about the Internet. I'm trying to secularize it.

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

People have become desperate to reduce everything, including each other, to mindless categories of good and bad, as if the world can be divided into Facebook likes and dislikes.

Trolling can be a great way to engage with the world, a way to regain self-esteem and happiness, or, dare I say it, a way of life.

In the black-and-white world of a girl in her late teens, I thought of things like Internet etiquette as obvious, rule-bound institutions. Facebook was Facebook, texts were texts, emails were emails, chats were chats, webcamming was webcamming, phone calls were phone calls.

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

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.

My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.

Making a fool out of yourself and putting it on the Internet is one of the best bonding experiences you could have.

I think people have a strong desire to push me and others into some sort of political box that they can wrap their minds around.

For too long, actually, we have either said you're this or that.

I grew up with a computer, and many of my friends were people I met online.

They don't know how the world is shaped. And so they give it a shape, and try to make everything fit it. They separate the right from the left, the man from the woman, the plant from the animal, the sun from the moon. They only want to count to two.

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.

People say the Internet's made of cats. The reason isn't because of cats; it's because people like to have an emotion where they say 'aww' all at the same time.

As users of the Internet, we all have a role to play in defining what we want it to be.

I have this really bad habit of doing things on the Internet and forgetting that the whole world is going to see it.

Don't say anything online that you wouldn't want your mother to read.

I'm a bit of a lurker on Reddit.

The selfie, like all technology, causes us to reflect on our human values. This is a good thing because it challenges us to figure out what they really are.

There's so much negativity on social media, I don't want to add to that.

We don't have rules that people can't use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible. We certainly don't want them to do anything that's going to affect themselves in an adverse way or affect our program, our university, or our team in an adverse way.

I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.

In addition to all the good things it's done, the Internet has empowered an awful lot of people who would have been best off disempowered, including quite a few bloggers on both sides.

There's obviously a sense of responsibility that comes with having this following and having fans, and so there's a lot of stuff that I won't dare to post, just because I want to be a good influence.