Thomas Friedman Quotes

Google search was important - one of the most important applications ever on the Web. People accessed everything through a browser, and for us it was important for making sure we had an option there.

The thing that changed everything for me was the Firefox browser. I was pretty bad when it came to computers - I didn't know how powerful the internet could be until I discovered tabbed browsing.

The Internet didn't become usable until Netscape because that gave the average person a user interface that was intuitive, simple, friendly - this made it accessible.

Many people bypass search engines altogether and still find what they're looking for online. These Internet surfers are using direct navigation.

What people want is a seamless Web experience.

It has been aptly noted that web browsers are less Internet navigation tools than they are ebooks with highly diverse content.

Think of Internet on the TV like the Web browser. The amount of time you spend on the PC in the browser is just going to grow continuously.

The Web as we've known it for a long time has been pages linking and pointing to other pages.

I don't surf the web very much.

Websites are kind of useless. There's so much great web content and design out there, but the ways in which they are being experienced are not being maximized.

Normally, my digital peregrinations take me to destinations like Facebook, YouTube, and boingboing.net.

I would have volunteered to work at Netscape. It was the center node of this new technology and the commercial ecosystem of the Internet.

If you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was a surprise to me - that people were prepared to painstakingly write HTML.

I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned, I guess.

When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.

For many people, Google is the most important tool on the Web.

The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication.

Despite demand, the BlackBerry avoided offering generalized web browsing support.

Surfing the Internet every day has become a habit for many leaders and officials, including myself.

I like to say StumbleUpon provides a personal tour of the Internet. The responses are more targeted to your interests than they would be with a regular search engine. If you choose a topic on our site that you're interested in, such as art, Web sites related to art appear, as if you're leafing through an art magazine.

This is your silly web browser doing that. The file is correctly named.

When Netscape failed, it didn't mean the Internet was over.

The Internet is a bright spot for our struggling economy and functioning just fine without what amounts to a federal pat-down of the inner workings of the Internet.

You affect the world by what you browse.

If net neutrality goes away, it will fundamentally change everything about the Internet.