David Weinberger Quotes

The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom. That's all it is. All those media companies say, "We're going to make a killing here." You won't because it's still only as good as the content.

The way communication works is changing.

I find the Internet to be the most wonderful thing there is. It connects people. Everyone can have input.

I learned that every conversation shouldn't be had via social media.

Technology has a lot to do with how the world is developing at the moment because there are very raw and pure and primal emotions that people are communicating to each other over the Internet.

The internet is changing all forms of communication, and this definitely includes political communication.

Comments are my main way to communicate with you bros.

I think, like, Twitter is somewhat difficult sometimes, and it can be kind of negative.

The essence of conversation is not which media format we choose to talk to each other with, so we don't differentiate between snaps and chats. It's just someone wanting to talk to you.

We get a ton of email; everybody does now. It gives us a kind of a pulse that you can feel. We hear people saying, thank you for being fair, for being balanced.

The Internet is like the phone. To be without it is ridiculous.

There is never going to be a substitute for face-to-face communication, but we have seen since the alphabet, to the telephone and now the Internet, that whenever people find a new way to communicate, they will flock to it.

Now, admittedly, Twitter can be entertaining on occasion, as it turns out that 140 characters offers a great chance to be misunderstood - and an even greater chance one will expose his inner troglodyte.

The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.

The world cannot live on 140 characters alone.

The Internet really lets people connect that wouldn't have in the past, and lets conversations happen and connections happen.

What the Internet is great at is building networks.

In the best cases, Twitter makes people smarter and faster and more efficient.

Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated.

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

I've always written observations on the world, and now there's two of them. The virtual world is a new thing, and it doesn't really exist, but people are in it a lot.

The Internet has given us 10 or 15 new styles of communication: long messages like blogging, and then short messages like texting and tweeting. I see it all as part of an expanding array of linguistic possibilities.

Television is, in many respects, a passive medium: people receive information without really exchanging ideas with others. By contrast, the Internet can be an active medium, allowing individuals to use e-mail, discussion groups, and even Web sites to engage with one another.

Twitter and Tumblr and Facebook, it's so amazing because years ago, when I was growing up and watching movies, there was no way for us to interact with filmmakers at all. You could send a letter, and you'd never know if you were going to hear back or not.