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It's not Big Brother that we now have to be afraid of, but Big Browser. -- Eliot Spitzer
Anyone who slaps a "this page is best viewed with Browser X" label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network. -- Tim Berners-Lee
I just became one with my browser software. -- Bill Griffith
If you can use a Web browser, you can use Skype. -- Niklas Zennstrom
This is your silly web browser doing that. The file is correctly named. -- Rasmus Lerdorf
A good browser, apps, good camera, and fast networking in your smartphone is just expected today. -- Thorsten Heins
If I were to wish for two things, they would be as much bandwidth as possible and ridiculously fast browser engines. -- Matt Mullenweg
Think of Internet on the TV like the Web browser. The amount of time you spend on the PC in the browser is just going to grow continuously. -- Reed Hastings
For most of the '90s and the first part of this decade, content providers who wanted to publish online only needed to worry about the graphical web browser. -- Mike Davidson
We found a way to make things look great to the human eye through the window of a graphical web browser without worrying about what everything looked like under the hood. -- Mike Davidson
The Internet browser is the most susceptible to viruses. The browser is naive about downloading and executing software. Google is trying to help by releasing the Chrome browser as open source. -- Vint Cerf
People think about the world of TV and the world of online video as being different ways to distribute video. But what happens when every TV is connected to wi-fi with a browser? -- Chad Hurley
What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes. -- Ted Nelson
Google search was important - one of the most important applications ever on the Web. People accessed everything through a browser, and for us it was important for making sure we had an option there. -- Sundar Pichai
People notice it and they help you participate and see your work included in this project and when we ship our browser, you and millions of other people get to see the fruits of your efforts. -- Mitchell Baker
Yes, iD is a machine vision and sensor browser for the physical world. That's what we have been working on with Coca-Cola, Verizon, Bank of America and Disney to launch content when an image is recognised. -- Patrick Soon-Shiong
In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it. -- Tim Berners-Lee
I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly. -- Steve Wozniak
I like to see photographs: I like to see my family. To me, when I open a basic browser, and it's that very elegant silver simple user interface, I am unhappy. I don't need elegant and silver and simple! -- Mitchell Baker
I think we're proving ourselves as we go along. The past several months our strategy has been evolutionary - making maximum advantage of our client browser, as well as our enterprise software for people who want to build Web sites. -- Jim Barksdale
When people think of Mozilla, they generally think of the browser, but Mozilla is really much more than that. Mozilla is of interest to people who want an end-user application like our browser that's not tied directly into the Windows platform. -- Mitchell Baker
Steve Jobs was notoriously blunt about products he found wanting, but his attack on Flash - Adobe's popular technology for playing multimedia content inside a browser - was particularly vicious. Claiming it was buggy and insecure, Jobs banned it from the iPad. -- Evgeny Morozov
In direct navigation, users type exactly what they are looking for in the browser's web address field. This could be the exact domain name or web address. Millions of people do this, emphasizing the need for on- and off-line marketing and branding. -- Marc Ostrofsky
If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools. -- Mike Davidson
Netscape brought the Internet alive with the browser. They made the Internet so that Grandma could use it, and her grandchildren could use it. The second thing that Netscape did was commercialize a set of open transmission protocols so that no company could own the Net. -- Thomas Friedman
Talking about Apple v. Microsoft without mentioning the Internet and the browser is like talking about WWII without talking about the nuke. Framing the conversation just in terms of open v. closed operating systems, the quality of the hardware or software or who the CEO was, is silly. -- Michael Arrington
Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way. If you can use a Web browser, you can use Skype. -- Niklas Zennstrom
Once you understand that everybody's going to get connected, a lot of things follow from that. If everybody gets the Internet, they end up with a browser, so they look at web pages - but they can also leave comments, create web pages. They can even host their own server! So not only is everybody consuming, they can also produce. -- Marc Andreessen
...your Web browser is Ronald Reagan. -- Neal Stephenson
Right now Bitcoin feels like the Internet before the browser. -- Wences Casares
The search button on the browser no longer provides an objective search, but a commercial one. -- Tim Berners-Lee
Ther average consumer does not know the difference between the browser, the internet, and the search box. -- Mitchell Baker
Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize its the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world? -- Randall Munroe
Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world? -- Randall Munroe
The file is a gzipped tar file. Your browser is playing tricks with you and trying to be smart. -- Rasmus Lerdorf
If Apple were to grow the iPod into a cell phone with a web browser, Microsoft would be in big trouble. -- Paul Graham
People in the industry foresee a time in which, for many people, the only thing they'll need on a computer is a browser. -- Mitch Kapor
Sometimes I get scared that I'm going to enter a web address into Twitter thinking it was my browser. That would be bad. -- John Mayer
I just have to be super strong when it comes to my work time. Shut the browser, ignore the email alerts, and just WRITE. -- Sarah Dessen
We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993( filing its first court responses to federal antitrust) -- Bill Gates
To a writer, an open browser tab is like a glass of whiskey. 1 or 2 can help the work. Too many ensures that nothing gets done. -- Andy Ihnatko
The high-ceilinged rooms, the little balconies, alcoves, nooks and angles all suggest sanctuary, escape, creature comfort. The reader, the scholar, the browser, the borrower is king. -- David McCord
This is exactly how the World Wide Web works: the HTML files are the pithy description on the paper tape, and your Web browser is Ronald Reagan. -- Neal Stephenson
If you find you are not understanding my explaination for a joke, hit F5 on your browser and the page will refresh and I will explain it again. -- Ryan North
The Internet "browser"... is the piece of software that puts a message on your computer screen informing you that the Internet is currently busy and you should try again later. -- Dave Barry
Any machine that can run a browser is not thin. The browser has to be the thickest application man has ever invented, and it's getting thicker faster than anything ever development by man. -- Bill Gates

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