Top 235 Net Quotes

When a book of mine comes out, I instantly go hunting the net, not for praise, but for criticism, because that’s how you learn, from people who don’t have to be polite to you.

Most Americans get that there is a need for a safety net in our country, and we support that safety net.

Our net worth is ultimately defined not by dollars but rather by how well we serve others.

I love, love, love live performance. It’s like walking a tightrope without the net. You better be on point; you better be balanced. You better have rehearsed it and seen it from every vantage so you can do what you do best. I do love film because it’s up front in your face, and hopefully you’ve got a great editor.

If in 1989 I said, ‘I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,’ they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.

I didn’t have the safety net that a lot of young actresses have. A lot of young girls have their families around to support them and help choose wisely.

If you’re one car accident away from poverty, you’re on a high wire without a safety net. And that’s a challenging proposition.

I still get so much fan mail addressed to Carol Brady, and I think a lot of it’s through the Net. And I always answer it, if it’s legible.

We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food.

If you look at attitudes today and where they are headed, it’s clear to me that supporting equal rights, including the rights to civil marriage, is a net positive for winning elections, as well as the right thing to do.

Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.

It comes down to a question of attention: it’s difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.

I buy lots of my software over the net from the States.

I look back at the bubble as a net positive. Maybe it’s because of how my career continued to go from there. Maybe it’s because I got to cover things that aren’t often the central focus in sports.

I get that you have to go to the net and score goals, but if you’re going to run over the goalie there should be some type of consequence.

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.

We don’t want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence.

I felt like I was flying without a net. But once I realized that the audience was my partner, I was flying a jet, because the people would allow me to develop the character on stage.

My game is suited to grass because I’m really aggressive on the court. I have a big serve, I’m quick, I hit the ball hard, and I go to net so I have everything a player needs to do well on grass.

Berners-Lee started the World Wide Web as a set of protocols for transferring, linking and addressing documents to send over the Net. Without the global reach and open technical standards of the Internet, the Web could never have proliferated as it did.

‘Politico Magazine’ listed me among the top 50 ‘thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics’ for my work in coalitions advancing net neutrality.

It’s never over until we’re shaking hands at the net. Then you’ve either won or you’ve lost, and – either way – you look them in the eye and say, ‘Well played, mate.’

We have to take a long view on net neutrality.

Remember the early days of the Net, when everything was going to be open and free, and we were all going to share information in a techno-utopia? That was great until people realized that their user data could be turned into gold. Now there are billions at stake, and nobody is playing nice anymore.

More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the families before they fall even more, especially in the areas of unemployment benefits, child care assistance, and foster care.

President Obama is a big supporter of keeping the Internet open. During his presidential campaign, he pledged his support to net neutrality repeatedly.

I believe in the freedom of the net, but I don’t believe in the freedom of the net at the cost of having these online criminal gangs running completely loose and using the freedom of the net to steal everybody’s money and take away the trust we have.

Typically, discussions of the safety net boil down to one side wanting to spend more in the name of compassion, and the other side wanting to spend less in the name of fiscal restraint. In both cases, money serves as a proxy for moral responsibility.

Net neutrality is a concept that the tech industry rallies around, but it is hypocrisy.

Instead of mindlessly tossing billions at or taking billions from the Net as such, investors should be spending their time making sure that it’s the future Fords and General Motors of cyberspace that are getting the capital they need.

Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society – at least on the surface. There’s a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They’re not too loud, they’re not too quiet, but sometimes it’s a little too perfect.

My stats speak for themselves; I’ve got a good touch for a big man, I know I can find the back of the net.

If people are being upstanding citizens of the Republic, then you have to widen the net to incarcerate them. This explains why America’s prisons are full of nonviolent offenders – a perfect example of American exceptionalism.

If you are coaching kids, the smile on a kid when he does the right thing, when he puts the ball in the net, that’s the reward right there.

In the 1958 World Cup final, Sweden scored against Brazil and Didi went to the back of the net and talked to all the players. And he was not the captain, but he behaved like one. Every player has to behave as if he was captain.

Because I don’t look like I’m skating around as hard as Bobby Bassen doesn’t mean my mind isn’t working twice as hard as Bobby’s mind. Just because I can’t fight like Kelly Chase doesn’t mean standing in front of the net getting cross-checked and slashed isn’t toughness as well.

Strong focus on customer experience coupled with strategic investments in proprietary technology has helped us maintain a high net promoter score while empowering our hotel partners.

I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.

I always try and emphasize on having specific net sessions on ‘death bowling.’ It is similar to length balls – the more you practice, the better you get at it.

Volleying comes into grass-court tennis because it’s a surface that favours the player who gets on the front foot. So if you’ve got an opportunity to come in and be aggressive, then finishing the points at the net is always going to be a good strategy.

Our family life is a circus without a net. But I wouldn’t have it any other way.

The net is a very precious thing. I hate it when people discuss measures to limit it.

I’ve come to a point in my career where it doesn’t matter if I dribble or nutmeg someone. The only thing that matters is whether I was decisive, did I put the ball in the back of the net today, and did it help the team win.

I think my role on a team is I love to put the puck in the back of the net. If that opportunity presents itself, and it happens for me, I get really excited.

I haven’t seen the film yet because I just got in from London. In the scenes where the two characters are bantering with each other, it is like bobbing at the net in tennis.

I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibilities of people interacting under the constraints imposed by our biology and history. When an author is free to suspend the constraints, it’s tennis without a net.

Those who value a strong safety net for our neediest citizens see that every extra dollar spent on these unions is a dollar that cannot go to help the sick, the elderly, and the vulnerable.

You’re out there on a high wire without a net, and that’s the way actors operate. They have to be fearless about how they work and they have to create a life for the audience in 90 minutes and make them believe.

I’m trying to win more points at the net, not just come to the net more frequently.

Achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050, identifying treatments to diseases like cancer, and harnessing the power of robotics and artificial intelligence to support everyday tasks are all within our grasp. The first country that gives birth to these discoveries will change life as we know it.

I never wanted to be on any billionaires list. I never define myself by net worth. I always try to define myself by my values.