Internet Perception Quotes

The Internet is such... it's so not real. But it's big and it feels big when you're on it.

There was a time when people felt the internet was another world, but now people realise it's a tool that we use in this world.

Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that's what we're used to. So people complain that there's a lot of rubbish online, or that it's dominated by Americans, or that you can't necessarily trust what you read on the Web.

There is something almost sacred about the Internet. I'm trying to secularize it.

Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.

Most people who use the Internet seem take its nature and characteristics for granted, like we take air and water for granted.

It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway', but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.

The Internet, which seems now so embedded and personal and crucial to our lives, isn't at all - we really shouldn't think of it that way.