Surfing The Internet Quotes:

And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing.

- Scott Adams

topic: Technology, Surfing, Serious, Surfing The Internet

The mobile phone is very dangerous. If you're walking and looking at your phone, you're not walking - you're surfing the internet.

- Mohsin Hamid

source: "Love in the Time of Mass Migration". Interview with Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. March 4, 2017.

topic: Phones, Surfing, Internet, Surfing The Internet, Mobile Phones

Software development takes immense intellectual effort. Even the best programmers can rarely sustain that level of effort for more than a few hours a day. Beyond that, they need to rest their brains a bit, which is why they always seem to be surfing the Internet or playing games when you barge in on them.

- Joel Spolsky

topic: Playing Games, Effort, Surfing, Barges, Surfing The Internet

I was looking at books and reading the indexes and finding a next book and reading that book, and then from that index ... It was a version of surfing the internet before the internet. I was surfing the New York Public Library. It was back when you had to fill out a form and put it in a chute.

- Lisa Yuskavage

topic: New York, Book, Reading, Surfing The Internet

You have to be very clear with yourself about how you're going to spend your time. When a child is at school or napping, you need to realize that this is your writing time and you don't spend it surfing the Internet or reading.

- Elizabeth Hoyt

source: "Romance Unlaced: Interview with Elizabeth Hoyt (plus excerpt!)". Interview with Madeline Hunter, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. April 22, 2015.

topic: Children, Reading, Writing, Surfing The Internet

There isn't a single day I don't do some writing -- if you don't, you won't have a book. When you're self-employed it is very easy to burn away your time instead -- answering e-mails, surfing the Internet, or hanging out with friends. You really must have the discipline to sit down and write every day. Most of what I am writing is living in the back of my head or in my subconscious. I find if I write every day, my subconscious will do the job for me.

- Charles de Lint

topic: Jobs, Book, Writing, Surfing The Internet, Hanging Out With Friends

There's something suspicious about saying, 'I'm just going to leave my child alone and let her pursue her passions.' You know what? I think most 13-year-olds' passion is sitting in front of the TV, or doing Facebook, or surfing the Internet for hours.

- Amy Chua

topic: Children, Passion, Thinking, Surfing The Internet

According to the American Psychological Association, the most effective stress-relief strategies are exercising or playing sports, praying or attending a religious service, reading, listening to music, spending time with friends or family, getting a massage, going outside of ra walk, meditating or doing yoga, and spending time with a creative hobby. (The least effective strategies are gambling, shopping, smoking, drinking, eating, playing video games, surfing the Internet, and watching TV or movies for more than two hours.

- Kelly McGonigal

source: Peggy Orenstein (2011). “Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture”, p.6, Harper Collins

topic: Sports, Religious, Stress, Stress Relief, Surfing The Internet

Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to serve as a clearinghouse and resource for parents, teachers and children for information on the dangers of surfing the Internet.

- Mike Fitzpatrick

topic: Teacher, Children, Home, Surfing The Internet

If employees need to stay late in order to curry favor with the boss, what motivation do they have to get work done during normal business hours? After all, they can put in the requisite 'face time' whether they are surfing the Internet or analyzing customer data.

- Robert Pozen

topic: Motivation, Educational, Order, Work Done, Curry

Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Practice, Surfing, Television, Surfing The Internet, Watching Television

Trust me, the being-dead part is much easier than the dying part. If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch. Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Damned”, p.1, Random House

topic: Surfing The Internet, Watching Television

Annabeth came up to me. She was dressed in black camouflage with her Celestial bronze knife strapped to her arm and her laptop bag slung over her shoulder—ready for stabbing or surfing the Internet, whichever came first.

- Rick Riordan

topic: Knives, Surfing, Black, Surfing The Internet, Annabeth Chase