"As it turns out, complex networks are everywhere. Or, to be more precise, it turns out that if we model real-world situations in terms of networks, we often discover new things. What is striking, is that many real-world net- works look alike: the structure of the Internet resembles the organization of our brain, but also the organization of online social communities. Where these similarities come from is still a mystery, just as it is often very difficult to understand how certain networks were actually structured."
"Net neutrality would require that every search engine produce an equal number of results that satisfy every disagreement about [every] issue... Just think of it as Fairness Doctrine for the Internet." (Rush Limbaugh, "On net neutrality", The Rush Limbaugh Show, 2010)
"Possibly worst of all, from the standpoint of the dedicated enemies of freedom, the Internet is a world that libertarians - having been marginalized for three decades by the establishment media - have made their own, almost without effort. It's an alternative reality (unlike 'meat-space' we live in) in which - exactly like intelligence, bravery, or virtue - the human capacity for violence is not additive, and in which it's impossible to initiate force against anybody." (L Neil Smith," Keep Your Filthy Hands Off The Internet", 2010)
"The quintessential exercise of free speech in a culture supposedly built on that concept and dedicated to it, the Internet's development is as historically important to humanity - perhaps even more so - as Gutenberg's invention of the printing press." (L Neil Smith," Keep Your Filthy Hands Off The Internet", 2010)
"Internet use is diffusing fast, but this diffusion follows a spatial pattern that fragments its geography according to wealth, technology, and power: it is the new geography of development." (Manuel Castells, "The Internet Galaxy:Reflections on the Internet", 2001)
"An Internet search engine is a finite-state, deterministic machine, except at those junctures where people, individually and collectively, make a nondeterministic choice as to which results are selected as meaningful and given a click. These clicks are then immediately incorporated into the state of the deterministic machine, which grows ever so incrementally more knowledgeable with every click. This is what Turing defined as an oracle machine." (George B Dyson, "Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe", 2012)
"As wearable devices, health tracking, and quantified self are gaining popularity, human beings are also becoming part of the Internet of things." (Newton Lee, "Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness" 2012)
"International trade in goods and services has expanded steadily over the past six decades thanks to declines in shipping and communication costs, globally negotiated reductions in government trade barriers, the widespread outsourcing of production activities, and a greater awareness of foreign cultures and products. New and better communications technologies, notably the Internet, have revolutionized the way people in all countries obtain and exchange information." (Paul Krugman, "Paul R. Krugman et al," International Economics: Theory & Policy" 9th ed., 2012)
"The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible." (Ben Horowitz, 2012)
"An open internet is an open platform for debating opposing views. It allows both popular and unpopular voices to be heard. It is a civilized outlet for frustrated individuals to express themselves without resorting to violence or terrorism." (Newton Lee, "Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness" 2013)
"The internet is not necessarily a golden goose yet, but we must fight to keep it safe, keep it level, keep it democratic, keep it open, keep it diverse so that when it becomes the golden goose, we independent artists can share and maybe at least get a wing or a thigh, even if we don't get the breast meat." (Lloyd Kaufman, 2013)
"A system might thus greatly boost its effective intellectual capability by absorbing pre-produced content accumulated through centuries of human science and civilization: for instance, by reading through the internet. If an AI reaches human level without previously having had access to this material or without having been able to digest it, then the AI’s overall recalcitrance will be low even if it is hard to improve its algorithmic architecture." (Nick Bostrom, "Superintelligence", 2014)
"Converting the Internet into a system of surveillance thus guts it of its core potential. Worse, it turns the Internet into a tool of repression, threatening to produce the most extreme and oppressive weapon of state intrusion human history has ever seen." (Glenn Greenwald, "No Place to Hide", 2014)
"For many kids, the Internet is a means of self-actualization. It allows them to explore who they are and who they want to be, but that works only if we’re able to be private and anonymous, to make mistakes without them following us." (Glenn Greenwald, "No Place to Hide", 2014)
"To permit surveillance to take root on the Internet would mean subjecting virtually all forms of human interaction, planning, and even thought itself to comprehensive state examination." (Glenn Greenwald, "No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the Surveillance State", 2014)
"What made the Internet so appealing was precisely that it afforded the ability to speak and act anonymously, which is so vital to individual exploration." (Glenn Greenwald, "No Place to Hide", 2014)
"A system which is usually composed of large number of possibly heterogeneous interacting agents, which are seen to exhibit emergent behavior. Emergence implies that system level behavior (macro level) cannot be inferred from observation of individual level behavior of its constituents (micro level). This absence of explicit links between the micro and macro levels makes complex systems especially difficult to analyze using traditional statistical and analytical techniques to study the dynamics of behavior. One typically requires the use of bottom up simulation based methods to study such systems. Complex systems are ubiquitous - markets, societies, social networks, the Internet, weather, ecosystems, are just a few examples." (Stephen E Glavin & Abhijit Sengupta, "Modelling of Consumer Goods Markets: An Agent-Based Computational Approach", Handbook of Research on Managing and Influencing Consumer Behavior, 2015)
"This common view of statistics as a basic ‘bag of tools’ is now facing major challenges. First, we are in an age of data science, in which large and complex data sets are collected from routine sources such as traffic monitors, social media posts and internet purchases, and used as a basis for technological innovations such as optimizing travel routes, targeted advertising or purchase recommendation systems [...]. Statistical training is increasingly seen as just one necessary component of being a data scientist, together with skills in data management, programming and algorithm development, as well as proper knowledge of the subject matter." (David Spiegelhalter, "The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data", 2019)
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