Arpanet Internet Quotes & Sayings

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros. — P. J. O'Rourke

She loves you. She's just forgotten how to show it. — Lisa See

This interplay of military and academic motives became ingrained in the Internet. "The design of both the ARPANET and the Internet favored military values, such as survivability, flexibility, and high performance, over commercial goals, such as low cost, simplicity, or consumer appeal," the technology historian Janet Abbate noted. "At the same time, the group that designed and built ARPA's networks was dominated by academic scientists, who incorporated their own values of collegiality, decentralization of authority, and open exchange of information into the system."90 These academic researchers of the late 1960s, many of whom associated with the antiwar counterculture, created a system that resisted centralized command. It would route around any damage from a nuclear attack but also around any attempt to impose control. — Walter Isaacson

Every life has a beginning, a middle, and an end; dissect history and you'll see the word that defines it as a tale, a narrative. — Jodi Picoult

Anyway, if you really want to see the Arpanet as the origin of the internet, please explain why the government sat on it for thirty years and did almost nothing with it until it was effectively privatised in the 1990s, with explosive results. — Matt Ridley

It's possible to save oneself from Satan, Father Francis, but from men - never! — Nikos Kazantzakis

Get a better job, Harve. Ask for a raise. Good Lord, we aren't living. We're existing! — Gil Brewer

Anarchy raised its seductive head. He could do anything; there was nothing that was not allowed. — Paul Russell

A handbook for users of the Arpanet at MIT in the 1980s reminded them that 'sending electronic messages over the ARPAnet for commercial profit or political purposes is both antisocial and illegal'. The internet revolution might have happened ten years earlier if academics had not been dependent on a government network antipathetic to commercial use. Well, — Matt Ridley

So stop sulking. You're not old enough for the cool, tortured look. — Tite Kubo