Past Quotes

Posted February 11, 2010

“If it sucks, it will sink. That’s the Web.”

— Gerry McGovern

Posted January 19, 2010

“I really didn’t foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much, of course – the computer industry didn’t even foresee that the century was going to end.”

— Douglas Noel Adams

Posted December 8, 2009

“One of the Internet’s strengths is its ability to help consumers find the right needle in a digital haystack of data.”

— Jared Sandberg

Posted November 13, 2009

“But what is it good for?”

— Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip

Posted October 19, 2009

“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”

— Pablo Picasso

Posted September 11, 2009

“Real men don’t use backups, they post their stuff on a public ftp server and let the rest of the world make copies.”

— Linus Torvalds

Posted August 19, 2009

“A blog is a message in a bottle, both in purpose and likely readership.”

— Robert Brault

Posted July 8, 2009

“The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.”

— Andrew Brown

Posted June 4, 2009

In the year 3000, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter will merge to form one time-wasting Web site called YouTwitFace!

— Conan O’Brien

Posted May 6, 2009

“My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.”

— Penn Jillette

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