Jon Stewart Quotes

The Internet is a medium only at the bit level. At the human level, it is a conversation that, because of the persistence and linkedness of pages, has elements of a world. It could only be a medium if we absolutely didn't care about it.

Vast volumes of mixed media surround us, from music to games and videos. Yet almost all of our online actions still begin and end with writing: text messages, status updates, typed search queries, comments and responses, screens packed with verbal exchanges and, underpinning it all, countless billions of words.

With over 1 billion users and counting worldwide, the Internet has quickly become a critical place for individuals, business communities and governments to share and distribute information.

The Internet is a tool, a technology, and we like to say that it has all of these properties, but really, it's just a place where our writing is.

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

New landscape of personal media has given us a vaster wasteland of cyberspace. But, luckily for us, there's some really wonderful stuff in it. And if history is any guide, as the media matures, the quality will continue to go up.

The Internet will make every enterprise a publisher.

The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than what it's short for.

Can you explain what Internet is?

I don't think that Yahoo or any other Internet company should try to become a television network. We will be nowhere if we have to create our own content.

Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information previously available only to those with access to the world's greatest libraries - indeed, in most respects what is available through the Internet dwarfs those libraries, and it is incomparably easier to find what you need.

The internet is a total inversion of television. It's the opposite.

I don't know why, but I'm continually amazed to think that two and a half billion of us around the world are connected to each other through the Internet and that at any point in time more than 30 percent of the world's population can go online to learn, to create and to share.

Podcasts themselves cannot exist without the Internet - in a way, they are a microcosm of the Internet.

I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.

Digital platforms are worthless without content. They're shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they're empty sacks. It is not about pixels versus print. It is not about how you're reading. It is about what you're reading.

What the Internet is great at is building networks.

That's mostly what the Internet is, just passing the time. But unfortunately you are dealing with words that can have meaning.

On-line communities would form with people selected more by commonality of interests and goals than by accidents of proximity.

Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet.

Information is lightning-quick. It crosses cities, states, and national borders in the twinkle of an eye. It passes through many kinds of devices, flowing from phone to phone and computer to computer, rather than being sealed away in those silent marble temples we used to call banks.

One of the wonderful things about the Internet is that it allows us to create lots of different kinds of content for lots of different kinds of people.

Podcasts are a lovely corner of the Internet.

Everything I know about Facebook makes me want to avoid it. Twitter has really improved my reading habits.

Social media is just more media.