I am not offering this is a critique of the internet, its just that there are a lot of factors involved. It… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you want to become a biologist, it doesn't help to go into the Harvard biology library and all the information is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't know what it means to say that 'the internet should have a voice in Washington'. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Our whole educational and cultural system is not designed to provide those intellectual tools, so people are often lost and the internet… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
After all, the internet originated around 1960 and wasn't privatized until 1995. That's thirty five years in the public domain during the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The person who wins the Nobel Prize is not the person who read the most journal articles and took the most notes… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
On the other hand, a lot of the internet - I don't know the percentage, but I am sure a great mass… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A lot of association on the internet is highly constructive. There are people interacting, interchanging ideas, making plans, coordinating activities; take any… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It [the internet] should be publicly controlled but Washington is not a system of public control, it's mainly a system of corporate… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think individuals have a right to privacy, but that ought to include the right to prevent private institutions from monitoring what… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't have time, you know - I want to be able to get it [information] instantly on the internet and not… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Internet is an élite organization; most of the population of the world has never even made a phone call. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Somebody puts up some weird thing and somebody else thinks yeah maybe that's the way things work and pretty soon you have… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[Internet] is kind of like a hammer. The technology itself doesn't determine how its used. It depends on the social, cultural and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Like most technology, the internet has mixed effects. It's a neutral instrument. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It [the internet] probably has the effect of weakening personal associations. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically they are… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image