--- title: "19 Internet Quotes By Dave Barry" description: "19 Internet quotes by Dave Barry. Plus more from Dave Barry and more Internet sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e85/dave-barry-222_bad-hair_there-are-no-bad-haircuts-in-cyberspace_1769586.png" --- > [There are no bad haircuts in cyberspace.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-barry/there-are-no-bad-haircuts-in-cyberspace/) [Dave Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-barry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e85/dave-barry-222_bad-hair_there-are-no-bad-haircuts-in-cyberspace_1769586.png) > [The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-barry/the-internet-transforming-society-and-shaping-the-future-through-chat/) [Dave Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-barry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/433/dave-barry-222_chat_the-internet-transforming-society-and-sh_1220495.png) > [The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-barry/the-internet-is-the-most-important-single-development-in-the-history/) [Dave Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-barry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81e/dave-barry-222_communication_the-internet-is-the-most-important-singl_368154.png) > [What I need is a search engine that, no matter what I type in, comes back with GO BACK TO WORK.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-barry/what-i-need-is-a-search-engine-that-no-matter-what-i-type-in-comes/) [Dave Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-barry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7dc/dave-barry-222_back-to-work_what-i-need-is-a-search-engine-that-no-m_2400320.png) > [The Internet "browser"... is the piece of software that puts a message on your computer screen informing you that the Internet is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-barry/the-internet-browser-is-the-piece-of-software-that-puts-a-message-on/) [Dave Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-barry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba7/dave-barry-222_browser_the-internet-browser-is-the-piece-of-sof_2073109.jpg) > [The Internet is a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean, "people without lives." We don't care.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-barry/the-internet-is-a-giant-international-network-of-intelligent-informed-2/) [Dave Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-barry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a1/dave-barry-222_care_the-internet-is-a-giant-international-ne_2717271.png) > [You can use the Internet to find out, from anywhere on the planet: exactly how much coffee is in a certain coffee…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-barry/you-can-use-the-internet-to-find-out-from-anywhere-on-the-planet/) [Dave Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-barry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/365/dave-barry-222_available_you-can-use-the-internet-to-find-out-fro_3164712.jpg) > [A Mission Statement is a dense slab of words that a large organization produces when it needs to establish that its workers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-barry/a-mission-statement-is-a-dense-slab-of-words-that-a-large/) [Dave Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-barry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dca/dave-barry-222_goals_a-mission-statement-is-a-dense-slab-of-w_987402.png) > [I also saw a huge expansion of the Internet, with many major corporations, afraid of being left behind, spending hundreds of millions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-barry/i-also-saw-a-huge-expansion-of-the-internet-with-many-major/) [Dave Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-barry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/62c/dave-barry-222_behinds_i-also-saw-a-huge-expansion-of-the-inter_2353155.jpg) > [While you are destroying your mind watching the worthless, brain-rotting drivel on TV, we on the Internet are exchanging, freely and openly,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-barry/while-you-are-destroying-your-mind-watching-the-worthless-brain/) [Dave Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-barry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16a/dave-barry-222_funny_while-you-are-destroying-your-mind-watch_1483370.png) > [What, exactly, is the internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-barry/what-exactly-is-the-internet-basically-it-is-a-global-network/) [Dave Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-barry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e43/dave-barry-222_choke_what-exactly-is-the-internet-basically-i_2196393.png) > [Back then, the entire Internet consisted of two slow, boxcar-sized UNIVAC computers about 50 feet apart, connected by a wire. It would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-barry/back-then-the-entire-internet-consisted-of-two-slow-boxcar-sized/) [Dave Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-barry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dad/dave-barry-222_ads_back-then-the-entire-internet-consisted_1503433.jpg) > [The Internet is a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean, "people without lives." We don't care.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-barry/the-internet-is-a-giant-international-network-of-intelligent-informed/) [Dave Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-barry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/903/dave-barry-222_brain_the-internet-is-a-giant-international-ne_2199974.jpg) > [The thing I have learned, especially in the Internet age, probably the easiest thing in the world is to declare that something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-barry/the-thing-i-have-learned-especially-in-the-internet-age-probably-the/) [Dave Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-barry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c32/dave-barry-222_age_the-thing-i-have-learned-especially-in-t_1630722.jpg) > [Common criticism of the Internet is that it is dominated by the crude, the uninformed, the immature, the smug, the untalented, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-barry/common-criticism-of-the-internet-is-that-it-is-dominated-by-the-crude/) [Dave Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-barry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b7c/dave-barry-222_borderline_common-criticism-of-the-internet-is-that_2780183.jpg) > [I love the resource of the Internet. I use it all the time. Anything I'm writing - for example, if I'm writing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-barry/i-love-the-resource-of-the-internet-i-use-it-all-the-time-anything-i/) [Dave Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-barry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6e/dave-barry-222_checks_i-love-the-resource-of-the-internet-i-us_3218197.jpg) > [The newspaper industry when I came along in the mid-70s was rich and powerful and growing and hungry for material and open…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-barry/the-newspaper-industry-when-i-came-along-in-the-mid-70s-was-rich-and/) [Dave Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-barry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bce/dave-barry-222_access_the-newspaper-industry-when-i-came-along_839750.png) > [I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-barry/i-regularly-read-internet-user-groups-filled-with-messages-from/) [Dave Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-barry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d7/dave-barry-222_code_i-regularly-read-internet-user-groups-fi_1799050.png) > [Entire new continent can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-barry/entire-new-continent-can-emerge-from-the-ocean-in-the-time-it-takes/) [Dave Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-barry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e3/dave-barry-222_continent_entire-new-continent-can-emerge-from-the_18682.jpg) ## Other authors on Internet - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-rebecca-mackinnon-77802.jpg) Rebecca MacKinnon 77 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/internet/rebecca-mackinnon/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-tim-bernerslee-90839.jpg) Tim Berners-Lee 54 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/internet/tim-berners-lee/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-edward-snowden-31935.jpg) Edward Snowden 50 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/internet/edward-snowden/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-bill-gates-17911.jpg) Bill Gates 50 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/internet/bill-gates/) - [Vint Cerf 48 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/internet/vint-cerf/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-alia-bhatt-11437.jpg) David Chiles 42 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/internet/david-chiles/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-eric-schmidt-33572.jpg) Eric Schmidt 38 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/internet/eric-schmidt/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-evgeny-morozov-34381.jpg) Evgeny Morozov 36 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/internet/evgeny-morozov/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-noam-chomsky-71799.jpg) Noam Chomsky 33 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/internet/noam-chomsky/) - [Ajit Pai 27 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/internet/ajit-pai/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-alfred-de-vigny-11271.jpg) Marvin Ammori 26 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/internet/marvin-ammori/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-john-battelle-50977.jpg) John Battelle 25 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/internet/john-battelle/) ## More by Dave Barry > [This is true; virtually all edible substances, and many automotive products, are now marketed as being low-fat or fat-free. Americans are obsessed with fat…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-barry/this-is-true-virtually-all-edible-substances-and-many-automotive/) [Dave Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-barry/) > [This ball was so crowded that it took me - a trained professional journalist with vast experience in this area - forty five minutes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-barry/this-ball-was-so-crowded-that-it-took-me-a-trained-professional/) [Dave Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-barry/) > [The hardest thing about being a guy is that women don't accept that you really are just a simple, pathetic, labrador retriever-like creature. That…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-barry/the-hardest-thing-about-being-a-guy-is-that-women-don-t-accept-that/) [Dave Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-barry/) > [The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-barry/the-ultimate-camping-trip-was-the-lewis-and-clark-expedition/) [Dave Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-barry/) > [Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-barry/although-golf-was-originally-restricted-to-wealthy-overweight/) [Dave Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-barry/) > [Entire new continent can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on your screen. Contrary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-barry/entire-new-continent-can-emerge-from-the-ocean-in-the-time-it-takes/) [Dave Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-barry/) > [He was distracted by a giggle, and turned to see a rare sight: a girl.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-barry/he-was-distracted-by-a-giggle-and-turned-to-see-a-rare-sight-a-girl/) [Dave Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-barry/) > [The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-barry/the-major-parties-could-conduct-live-human-sacrifices-on-their/) [Dave Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-barry/) > [If you look at any list of great modern writers such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, you'll notice two things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-barry/if-you-look-at-any-list-of-great-modern-writers-such-as-ernest/) [Dave Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-barry/) > [Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-barry/don-t-you-wish-you-had-a-job-like-mine-all-you-have-to-do-is-think-up/) [Dave Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-barry/) > [“Despite the gulf, physical and cultural, between the United States and Japan, both societies are, in the end, made up of people, and people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-barry/despite-the-gulf-physical-and-cultural-between-the-united-states-and/) [Dave Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-barry/) > [Before going on a diet you should consult your doctor, or at least send him some money.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-barry/before-going-on-a-diet-you-should-consult-your-doctor-or-at-least/) [Dave Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-barry/) > [Never trust anything you read in a travel article.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-barry/never-trust-anything-you-read-in-a-travel-article/) [Dave Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-barry/) > [In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it "Christmas" and went to church; the Jews called it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-barry/in-the-old-days-it-was-not-called-the-holiday-season-the-christians/) [Dave Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-barry/) > [Always remember that if editors were so damned smart, they would know how to dress.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-barry/always-remember-that-if-editors-were-so-damned-smart-they-would-know/) [Dave Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-barry/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/internet/dave-barry/#itemlist", "name": "19 Internet Quotes By Dave Barry", "numberOfItems": 19, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There are no bad haircuts in cyberspace.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Dave Barry" }, "url": 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