Ryan North Quotes

The interesting thing about the Internet is that it has created a kind of alternative circle of friends for people.

I've always said that my favorite aspect of online political writing is how interactive and collaborative it is with one's readers: that has always been, and always will be, crucial in so many ways to what I do.

And then you take a look at Spaces, there is this great innovation that came out of nowhere. We have the number one blogging site in the world because of the innovation that's there.

All cartoonists are linked together in the world - it's our language, one we can communicate in.

More than a billion people use the Internet, yet only a tiny fraction contribute their knowledge to it.

In cyberspace, the Wikipedians never stop gathering: It's a continuous round-the-clock rolling workfest.

The hardcore fanbase of nerds that live on the Internet are not nearly as powerful as I thought they were. They really, really aren't. They also flip-flop like mad.

When Wikipedia first started, the only people interacting on the Internet were hard core geeks. Now everyone is there, and they're attracted to the easy, free ways to interact.

Truly huge artistic collaboration on the Internet seems to work only if the gang has a well-defined objective.

On 'Chatroom,' everyone was so nice, and we had a really great time together; we were around the same age and got on really well.

I not only work online through my various projects, but I am an avid user of online technologies to connect and engage with friends as well.

It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.

On the Internet, people on the tails of the bell curve can find one another.

With Twitter, you can build your own virtual trading floor and research department, populated by the smartest people on earth. Almost any subject or sector has you can think of, you can find a few people with an expertise in that area.

I found a vlogger named William Sledd who talked about his life - it was very minimal edits. It was one of those things where I discovered him, and I was like, 'Oh my God, I'm obsessed with him.' I felt like I was friends with him. And he was a huge inspiration for why I made my first video.

Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.

Once the people of planet Earth are all hanging out together online in a virtual world without any borders, I think it could change social networking, entertainment and even politics.

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

Communications is at the heart of e-commerce and community.

In an online community, there's this kind of social economy between the community members. Some people have status because they make cool skins or that's a good website that's visited a lot, but there's no real gameplay there.

Honestly, people are pretty chill and respectful on Twitter.

The social network will be the new production line.

MySpace gives our members the ability to reach such an incredible range of people and have direct contact with them. I'm not sure how that devalues friendship so much as it expands the range of potential friends you can have.

The connection between someone in Leeds and a comedian in Los Angeles would probably never happen if it weren't for MySpace, so it enables friendship and connection far more than it limits it.

I treat Twitter like I'm talking to my friends.