When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist, and we didn't need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.

- Al Franken

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

- Al Gore

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.

- Al Gore

The Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama's campaign has manifested.

- Al Gore

I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.

- Al Franken

The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.

- Al Franken

Net neutrality isn't a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.

- Al Franken

Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user's phone number and home address, anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user's date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.

- Al Franken

Let's keep the Internet weird. Let's keep the Internet free.

- Al Franken

Net neutrality has been in place since the very beginning of the Internet.

- Al Franken

The Internet, in general, I find troubling. The anonymity has made us all meaner and dumber. This thing that was supposed to bring us closer together, I see it doing the opposite.

- Aaron Sorkin

Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.

- Ai Weiwei

When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.

- Ai Weiwei

The internet is a wild land with its own games, languages and gestures through which we are starting to share common feelings.

- Ai Weiwei

The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime. Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.

- Adam Savage

Word of mouth and the Internet are the only press we have left.

- Adam McKay

We, Will Ferrell and I, were approached by Sequoia, which is a big financing firm up in Palo Alto; they do a lot of Internet stuff, and they came to us and said they had an idea for a comedy site, and Will and I were sorta like, 'Yeah, we don't know. It's the Internet, we've seen it come and go.'

- Adam McKay

You don't cruise the Internet looking for your name and walk away with a good feeling. So, I never do it.

- Adam Carolla

I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.

- Aaron Sorkin

I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.

- Aaron Sorkin