The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

- Andrew Brown

So the thing to remember is this: the web is huge and very important, but it’s just one of the many things that run on the internet. The net is much bigger and far more important than anything that travels on it. Understand this simple distinction and you're halfway to wisdom.

- "The internet: Everything you ever need to know" by John Naughton, June 20, 2010.

...the Internet is the government in the broad sense of "the thing that governs or dictates policy." The Internet is the new kind of awareness. It’s not something you look at. It is the way or means through which you look at things. So it becomes the basis of your whole way of thinking — your new way of imagining things — and this process is largely unconscious.

- "Eric McLuhan: The End of Geography" by Blake Harris Published in The X-Journals, November 11, 2008.

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

- Eric Schmidt

The Net is a unique creation of human intelligence.
... the first intelligent artificial organism.
... represents the growth of a new society within the old.
... represents a new model of governance.
... represents a threat to civil liberties.
... the greatest free marketplace of ideas that has ever existed.
The Net is in imminent danger of extinction.
The Net is immortal.

- Henry Edward Hardy, introduction to The History of the Net
Master's Thesis for the School of Communications, Grand Valley State University (September 28, 1993)