Assault Quote by Annie Proulx

As a research tool, the internet is invaluable.

— Noam Chomsky

Happily, researchphilia is not the problem it once was. The Internet makes just-in-time research very practical.

— Edward M. Lerner

The Internet is a big boon to academic research. Gone are the days spent in dusty library stacks digging for journal articles. Many articles…

— Nick Bostrom

Research is necessary. However, you need to make sure you don't fall into its trap. You need to have time left for writing. To…

— Jaume Cabre

“The most obvious problem is that the freedom to post anything online floods the public square with bad information and half-baked thinking. The Internet…

— Thomas M. Nichols

Henry Kissinger once told me he was very concerned about the Internet's impact on people's ability to absorb information in a concentrated way, because…

— Vint Cerf

If I'm not ready to open something up to the scrutiny of the internet, I don't write about it.

— Caroline Calloway

“The Internet, as we now know it, carries a trove of inherent dangers. Those dangers are just beginning to reveal themselves, and their scale…

— Ted Koppel

The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and…

— Ben Elton

Like most writers, I find the Web is a wonderful distraction. Who doesn't need that last minute research before writing?

— Chris Abani

The accessibility and effective immortality of actual information is a magnificent phenomenon, a beautiful extension of human consciousness. It is too bad people find…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Technology has solved old economic problems by giving us new psychological problems. The internet has not just open-sourced information, it has also open-sourced insecurity,…

— Mark Manson