Online Resources Quotes

I think the one advantage to a failed - recovering, but a pretty broken - economy, and a lot of broken promises, is that we've pulled the veils from our eyes way earlier than most people do, and realize "Hey, you know what, maybe I should try do this thing that I really care about, and why not spend the time now during my best years to get into knitting, or coding, or swamp boat sailing." And there's this resource called the Internet that's going to provide you with a stage and a library for all of those things.

The Internet lives where anyone can access it.

One of my relatives had been asking me on how he could break into AI. For him to learn AI - deep-learning, technically - a lot of facts exist on the Internet, but it is difficult for someone to go and read the right combination of research papers and find blog posts and YouTube videos and figure out themselves on how to learn deep-learning.

The past two decades revolutionized the way we access information. You and I can have our questions answered with the click of a mouse at any time of day. If America, both corporation and citizen alike, can use these services to solve problems, why can't Washington?

Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost.

I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be.

I have a book coming out in September, for example, where the plot concerns counterfeiting, and I had to do a lot of research on that. Or on any legal matters, for example, I have to do a lot of research online.

While I have never learned to use a computer, I am surrounded by family and friends who carry information to me from blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and various websites.

I don't know much about the Internet, I'm afraid.

The Internet has got great tools. How we lived without Google all those years I don't know.

The world is really run by the Web. There's so much information out there that you can click and keep going down the rabbit hole finding stuff.

With YouTube - with the Internet in general - you have information overload. The people who don't necessarily get credit are the curators.

Nowadays, if somebody in America is feeling alone and wants to find a coming out story, they just search 'coming out,' and they'll find millions of first-person examples of people telling their story.

You can learn practically anything you want in the world online.

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.

Most young dealers of the Silicon Chip Era regard a reference library as merely a waste of space. Old Timers on the West Coast seem to retain a fondness for reference books that goes beyond the practical. Everything there is to know about a given volume may be only a click away, but there are still a few of us who'd rather have the book than the click. A bookman's love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.

Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever.

I buy a lot of books I've found via the Internet, whose existences I'd otherwise never have known about.

Taxpayers can go online and find out more about the way their government works than ever before.

The Internet serves as a channel of endless information through which individuals now access the news, employment opportunities, education, entertainment, etc.

If it wasn't for technology and the Internet, I wouldn't have been able to plan a wedding because I'm never home.

Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance.

But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools.

I find I use the Internet more and more. It's just an invaluable tool. I do most of my research on the Net now - and certainly do the bulk of my communicating through email.