Over the years, we’ve collected a lot of quotes about the Internet. Remember, we’ve been on the ‘net since 1993 so we’ve seen and heard a lot. Below are our favourites …

1. When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web…. Now even my cat has its own page. – Bill Clinton, 1996
2. On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog. – Peter Steiner, The New Yorker, July 5th 1993
3. There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet (…); the other was the fact that the century would end. – Douglas Adams
4. Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won’t bother you for weeks. – Anonymous
5. Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly. – Roger Ebert
6. Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame – MG Siruam
7. 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, July 1996
8. You can’t take something off the Internet – it’s like taking pee out of a pool.  – Author Unknown, 1995
9. The Internet is just the world passing around notes in a classroom.  – Jon Stewart
10. We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.  – Robert Wilensky, 1996

More quotes here – here as well – here and here.