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I learned to stop looking on the Internet pretty early on. -- Sam Riley
I started buying on the Internet quite rapidly, as early as 1995. -- Francois-Henri Pinault
Like the early days of the Internet, the dawn of personal genomics promises benefits and pitfalls that no one can foresee. -- Steven Pinker
The early idealists and companies and governments have all assumed that the Internet will bring freedom. Yet China proves that this is not the case. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
I see the Internet as the next big deal - I wanted to get in on it early on so I wouldn't get behind it all. -- Bruce Campbell
I related to the whole hippie, acid-test confluence of the early Internet. The idea that we should be open and interoperate with our data resonated with me. -- Stewart Butterfield
If you look at the first commercial transactions on the Internet, few of the early companies necessarily survived intact, but the ideas they invented became the industry. -- James Heywood
I had learnt from my years of being in the services business, like networking and closely watching the early days of the Internet, that scale leads to many possibilities. -- Peter Barris
I'd always maintained that much of the anarchy and craziness of the early Internet had a lot to do with the fact that governments just hadn't realised it was there. -- William Gibson
Like most early enthusiasts, I always thought the way the Internet encouraged multitasking made users less vulnerable to manipulation, while simultaneously exploiting even more of our brain's capacity than before. Apparently not. -- Douglas Rushkoff
I refused to do a lot on mobile Internet until around 2009. But because we didn't start early, it took us some time to figure out what's the important thing, what's the most relevant thing for Baidu. -- Robin Li
I got into computers back in the early '80s, so it was a natural progression of learning about e-mail in the mid-'80s and getting into the Internet when it opened up in the early '90s. -- Roger McGuinn
The Internet will win because it is relentless. Like a cannibal, it even turns on it own. Though early portals like Prodigy and AOL once benefited from their first-mover status, competitors surpassed them as technology and consumer preferences changed. -- John Sununu
AIR grew out of our early thinking about rich Internet applications around 2001. We started to see web developers pushing the boundaries of what could be done inside the browser and taking advantage of Flash in ways that we hadn't expected. -- Kevin Lynch
For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet. -- Eric S. Raymond
In the early 2000s, people expected that anonymity on the Internet would be positive for the development of democracy in South Korea. In a Confucian culture like South Korea's, hierarchy can block the free exchange of opinions in face-to-face situations. The web offered a way around that. -- Kim Young-ha
Here's the thing: I fell impossibly in love with the Internet from the minute I saw it in action in the early 1990s. From that moment on, I have studied it, analyzed it, reported on it, and, mostly, have not been without it as a part of my daily life since. -- Kara Swisher
As a child, I did what any normal kid who grew up without any electricity would do - I spent countless hours working on a computer wired to my parents' car battery... and learned how to code. This natural passion for computers lead me into the Internet market during the late 1990s and early 2000s. -- Ryan Holmes
So maybe there are three parts in my life - earlier background living in exile in Xinjiang in a very political circumstance, then later the United States from 24 to 36 years old. I was quite equipped with liberal thinking. Then the Internet. If there is no Internet, of course, I cannot really exercise my opinion or my ideas. -- Ai Weiwei
The notion of the Internet as a force of political and social revolution is not a new one. As far back as the early 1990s, in the early days of the World Wide Web, there were technologists and writers arguing forcefully that the Internet was destined to become the most important tool for cultural change in human history. -- Jamais Cascio
Success on the Web require high-level corporate understanding of the Internet's capabilities and support of early test-and-invest projects. -- Bill Gates
I was an early adopter: have been on the internet continuously since late 1989, barring a six-month loss of access in the early 90s. -- Charles Stross

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