Steven Levy Quotes

Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard.

Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.

Twitter is so severe, you know? And it's completely for free, it's scattershot, and it's very easy to feel embarrassed. It's hard to be artful with it. It's like a ticker tape. It's not a forum that's worth mastering, you know?

My personal view about how people should use Twitter is less relevant than our goal to provide the infrastructure for a new kind of communication and then support the creativity that emerges.

Twitter is an amazing public tool with an incredible capacity for public good.

Twitter has been a godsend for travelling.

Twitter's strength - and its weakness - is that it makes it extremely easy to share every passing thought with everyone on your friends list.

I love Twitter. What a great tool to speak directly to people.

For me, Twitter has given me a direct line to the world - it gave me an opportunity to be like, "This is my voice.

Reading the text of my blog itself is not really the interesting part. The exciting part is how the Internet allows me to be the eyes and ears for the people sending me postings from Africa.

Twitter was a mere prototype in 2006; now, many of us have become adept at saying all we have to say in 140 characters.

I think Twitter is great.

I particularly like Twitter, because it's short and can be very funny and informative. It's a little bit like having your own radio program.

Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.

Just as I never liked bumper stickers - even though I do brake for animals, and if I had a kid, she would definitely be an honor student - I don't like the idea of expressing my views through social-media-controlled rainbow-or-anything-else-ification.

The Internet has brought communities across the globe closer together through instant communication.

Twitter isn't a social network, it's an information network.

There's just a proliferation of blogs and the chattering classes and people talking. More avenues for people to make their feelings known, which is good.

Thanks to Twitter, I learn about the revolutions in the Middle East via Arab activists and writers, not just from American foreign correspondents.

Twitter is an extension of every dumb thought I have, firing it off - Instagram is a little more methodical.

I'm astonished at the speed of social media as it can get things done really fast.

Internet is a good and convenient device for us for easy communication. It has lots of value.

I don't think of Twitter as a social network. I think of it as a messaging system that has a lot of social components to it.

I think Twitter is kind of fun, it's not deep and it never will be, but it's a great way to communicate one-liners and to sort of see what people are laughing about. It's a terrific source of misinformation.

What Facebook stands for in the world is giving people a voice and spreading ideas and rationalism.