Restaurants
Best
Restaurants in Palm Desert
Best
Restaurants in Palm Springs
Alphabetical
Guide to Restaurants
Great food, reasonable prices
Shame on the Moon Restaurant
69950 Frank Sinatra Drive Rancho
Mirage 92270 (760) 324-5515
Delicious and affordable, Where
the locals go. Reservations a must:, Hostess: Ginger
Tuesday - Sunday at 5:30pm
Las Casuelas Nueva
70050 Highway 111, Rancho Mirage,
CA 92270 Tel: (760) 328-8844
Always busy, well-run restaurant
and bar, complete with dance floor, provides great Mexican food, friendly
service and fun. Tried all three and found the food to be a bit better at
this location.
Nina's Pita & Pizza - Greek
Mom & Pop Restaurant
The Plaza at Sunrise Shopping
Center 555 S Sunrise Way, Palm Springs, CA 92264
(760) 323-8552 11:00 am – 8:00 pm
Low prices, great food, always
fresh, small place.
Sherman’s Deli - 73161 Country Club Dr, Palm Desert, CA 92260-2350
Tel: (760) 568-1350. Huge
portions. Great food. New Yorkers won’t be disappointed.
Papa Dan’s – 73-131 Country Club at Monterey (760) 568-3267 Wonderful
pizza and pasta
Mario’s Italian Café –Mario's Italian Cafe, 42-104 Washington St., Bermuda
Dunes, CA. (760) 772-6100. From Marriott Desert Springs, go south on Cook
south. Left at Hovley Lane East
becomes 42nd Ave. Go across Washington Street then quick right into shopping
center on right. Large portions and excellent value. Really delicious.
Keedy's Fountain & Grill - 73-633 Highway 111; (760) 346-6492. A 1950’s soda fountain. Great breakfasts
and lunches. Pancakes are fantastic. Burgers are the best.
Roc's
Firehouse Grill - 36891 Cook Street @ Gerald
Ford, Palm Desert, CA 92211. 760-340-3222.
Great menu, casual, low prices.
More
Expensive - Worth It
Spenser’s on the Mountain – Palm Springs Tennis Club, 701 W Baristo Rd, Palm
Springs, CA 92262 (760) 327-3446. Location is near edge of mountains
downtown. Great for lunch too.
Lord Fletcher’s Restaurant - 70-385 Hwy 111 Rancho Mirage, CA 92270 Good rib rib and chicken & dumplings.
Entrees about $35 - $40 with nightly specials.
Expensive
- Not Worth It
Wally’s Desert Turtle - 71775 Hwy 111, Rancho Mirage, CA 92270 (760) 568-9321.
Entrees about $40
Haven't
Been Here Lately
Zin – An American Bistro - 198 S. Palm Canyon Dr. at Arenas Rd. Palm
Springs, CA 92262 760-(760)
322-6300. Service and food quality
inconsistent. About $20 - $25
entrees. Buttermilk-fried chicken, a
Zin burger, adult macaroni and cheese.
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Daily Grill - 73-601 El Paseo, Palm Desert, CA 92260 760 779-9911 at
73-061 El Paseo, Palm Desert, CA 760 779-9911
Good salads, a fine gazpacho,
zesty pasta dishes, and various blue-plate specials. The sidewalk terrace
invites people-watching. Weekend
brunches are very festive. A bit overpriced.
Monday night 1/2 rib special for $10.
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City Wok Chinese - 74-970 Country Club Drive Palm Desert, CA 92260
760-341-1511 Across from Marriott in Palm Desert, Country Club. Convenient but nothing special. Hours: Mon–Thurs 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM; Fri
& Sat 11:30 AM to 10:00 PM; Sun11:30 AM to 9:00 PM.
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Thai Smile of Rancho Mirage - New locations 73725 El Paseo Dr, Palm Desert, CA 92260. Not as good as P.F. Chang. Was located off Bob Hope and 111.
Pomme Frite Belgian Restaurant - 256 S. Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs, CA 92262.
(760) 778-3727 in Palm Springs - Wonderful fries served in paper cone with
dipping sauces. Pricey.
http://www.pommefrite.com/specials/index.html
La Bella Cucina - La Bella Cucina - 72355 CA-111 (Desert Crossing strip mall), Palm Desert, CA 92260. Phone:(760) 836-3280. A low-key, family-run eatery, delicious Italian dishes such as pasta & pizza. Not fancy, inexpensive, crowded. A gem.
Las Casuelas – The Original - 368 N Palm Canyon Dr., Palm Springs, CA 92262. (760)
325-3213. Doesn't have the party
ambience of the larger, more touristy Terazza down the street or the
spectacular Nuevas in Rancho Mirage, but easier to get in, food is the same,
excellent quality and the service is attentive and fast.
Las Casuelas Terraza - 222 S. Palm Canyon Dr., Palm
Springs, CA 92262 (760) 325-2794. Ask for patio, as it is like sitting in a
pretty garden in Mexico.
“C. C. Inn” a.k.a. The Cedar Creek Inn – CLOSED
- Cedar Creek Inn 1555 South Palm
Canyon Drive, Palm Springs, CA 92264 Reservations: 760/325-7300. Nice somewhat formal lunch or dinner. Great
salads. "Old world" Palm Springs. 2nd location in Palm Desert: Cedar Creek
Inn on El Paseo - 73445 El Paseo, Palm Desert, 92260.
P. F. Changs - The River, 71800 Highway 111, Rancho Mirage, CA
92270. (760) 776-4912. They will take a reservation. Try the Lettuce Wraps
(appetizer) and Dan Dan noodles or Lemon Chicken for entrées.
C.J.’s Diner - 74894 Lennon Pl Ste H1, Palm Desert, CA 92260 Tel:
(760) 837-9650. Haven’t tried it but review looks interesting.
Pacifica Seafood - 73505 El Paseo, Palm Desert, CA 92260. 760 674 8666. Haven’t tried but rated #1 of
200 desert area restaurants.
Arnold Palmer’s Restaurant - 78164 Ave 52, La Quinta, CA 92253-8909
Tel: (760) 771-4653. Clubby atmosphere, sit on patio. Can be crowded and noisy. Food is good, but
about 20% overpriced. Good pub menu
available. Also price specials 3 - 5
PM happy hour.
Peabody's Café - 134 S Palm Canyon Dr @ Tahquitz Canyon Way) Palm
Springs, CA 92262. Great coffee, breakfast
and people watching.
Benny's Bagels - 72-785 Hwy 111, Palm Desert (760) 568-4990. Bagels/Bakery. Overpriced. Tasty fresh and hot.
Wilma
& Frieda's Cafe - 73-575 El Paseo, Suite C2310,
Palm Desert, CA 92260 760 773 2807
Try this for waffles and brunch,
closed for dinner.
Tyler’s Burgers - 149 S Indian Canyon Dr, Palm Springs, CA
92262-6603 Tel: (760) 325-2990. Haven’t tried it but looks interesting.
In n Out Burger - 72265 Varner Rd., Thousand Palms, CA 92276
Sunday through Thursday 10:30
a.m.-1:00 a.m.
Friday and Saturday 10:30 a.m.-1:30 a.m. Directions from Palm Desert area: Take 111 to Monterey Ave, heading north past Country Club, Frank Sumatra, Gerald Ford, and Dinah Shore. After I-10 overpass take left onto Varner Road (parallels I-10) to Ramon Road, next intersection on right. 2nd location in Indio: rough neighborhood: 82043 Hwy. 111, Indio, CA 92201.
Vicky’s of Santa Fe - 45-100 Club Drive, Indian Wells, CA 92210 (760) 345-977
Great menu, about $30 - $35
entree, comparable to Arnold Palmer's in atmosphere & menu.
Dairy Queen - Cook at 111, Palm Desert 92260-3801. Also 41-800 WASHINGTON ST (North of Fred
Waring) in Bermuda Dunes 92201-8154 and E. Vista Chino at N Sunrise Way Palm
Springs. 92262-3569
Ruby’s - 155 S. Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs, CA 92262 (760)
406-7829. Diner food and burgers.
Aqua Paza - CLOSED - Was River Shopping Center in Rancho
Castelli’s Restaurant - 73-098 Highway 111, Palm Desert, California 92260. Too
expensive, menu items in $40 range. Just
off hwy 111 on a service road.
Sammy's Woodfire Pizza - 73-595 El Paseo Rd. Palm Desert, CA 92260. 760836-0500
Goody’s Café - 40101 Monterey Ave., Rancho Mirage, CA 92270. Just OK.
Some of the recent reviews are disappointing.
La Tablita Restaurant - Mexican - 68369 E Palm Canyon Dr, Cathedral City, CA 92234 (760)
321-5935. Delicious Mexican food, family owned.
Sidewinder Grill - 66121 Pierson Blvd, Desert Hot Springs, CA
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Things To Do
Special Events Calendar
Palm Springs Street Fair –
Thursday nights. They close main street for vendors, food, music. Palm
Springs VillageFest. 401 S. Pavillion Palm Springs, CA 92262 Phone:
760--320-3781 An exciting attraction downtown Palm Springs every Thursday
evening. Come for the music, food and fun.
Massage - "All About
Massage", 74-121 Hwy 111, Palm Desert just east of Portola. Phone
346-7949. Request desert stone massage from one of their more experienced
masseusses. They place warm, not hot, stones on your back. Very calming and
therapeutic. Ask for $10 coupon for first time visitor.
High country desert jeep tour -
Take camera – Desert Adventures
Street Fair at College of the
Desert - Saturdays and Sundays – Free – All year round. Open from 7 AM.
Phone: 760-776-0152. 43-500 Monterey Avenue, Palm Desert, CA 92260. Open
every Saturday and Sunday. October through May, 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. June through
September, 7 a.m to Noon. Free Parking, Free Admission.
Walking tour into Indian Canyons -
Near downtown Palm Springs - Take camera.
Friday, Saturday & Sunday (July
- September) 8:00AM - 5:00PM. Adults $9.00 Seniors (62+)$7.00
Tours are in season only and
approximately 1.5 hours and are 1 mile in length. Register at Palm
Canyon Trading Post. Adults $3.00 Children
(12-16) $2.00 (760) 323-6018
Directions from Marriott Desert
Springs
1. Country Club to 111 North
2. North on 111 past Gene Autry
Trail.
3. This becomes E. Palm Canyon
Drive and you're heading west on it.
4. Watch for Smoke Trail Lane on L
as landmark.
5. Go about 500 feet more and take
L at Sunrise Way heading south.
6. S. Sunrise becomes S. La Verne
Way as you veer right.
7. Left @ S. Toledo Ave. that becomes
E. Murray Canyon Drive.
8. Follow as E. Murray Canyon
turns West, then R at S. Palm Canyon Drive.
9. The hiking gate is at 38520 S
Palm Canyon Drive on the left.
10. This is 0.4 miles past Old
Rincon Villiage Rd
11. If you reach Andreas Canyon Rd
you've gone about 0.2 miles too far.
Location:
Info:
More
Hiking
Walking tour into Indian Canyons
at Taquitz Canyon with guide
“Hiking to
a waterfall in the desert”, this is a deep gorge 2 mile loop trail
to 60 foot water fall.
Location is at end of 500 West
Mesquite, Palm Springs, 3 signal south of Ramon, at base of mountain. 8 AM is when guided hike starts. Get
there 7:30 to 7:45 AM.
A loop through the canyon that
takes you to a waterfall at the end of the canyon. This is a mildly strenuous
hike, you need to be able to climb up rock stops that are 12-15 inches high.
Location:
1.
Take 111
into Palm Springs which becomes E. Palm Canyon Drive.
2.
Pass S.
Farrell and Sunrise Way which run N/S.
3.
Continue on
111/Palm Canyon business as it turns north.
4.
After
Octillo, turn left at Mesquite and at end.
Thousand Palms Oasis Hiking Trails
29200 1000 Palms Canyon Rd, Thousand Palms, CA, 92276 http://maps.yahoo.com/map?q1=92276&mag=5&ard=1#mvt=m&lat=33.806653&lon=-116.341479&mag=5&zoom=13&q1=Marriott%20Desert%20Springs%20Hotel%20Palm%20Desert%20CA&q2=29200%201000%20Palms%20Canyon%20Rd%2C%20Thousand%20Palms%2C%20CA%2C%2092276 The Coachella Valley Preserve is located 10 miles east of Palm Springs near 1000 Palms. It is a 17,000 acre site that is home to the Coachella Valley fringe-toed lizard, which is found nowhere else in the world. It is also home of the spectacular Thousand Palm Oasis which is fed by water seeping out of the San Andreas Fault. There are also several other Palm Oases, including the Willis, Hidden Horseshoe, and Indian Palms. Located in the center is the Paul Wilhelm Grove that is also the location of the Preserve's visitor's center. The preserve has several hiking trails including the McCallum, Hidden Palms, Moon Country, Pushawalla Palms, and Willis Palms trails. http://www.hiking-in-ps.com/cvpreserve.php
Trails in the Coachella Valley
Preserve
Elvis and Priscilla honeymooned in
the midcentury modern Honeymoon Hideaway 1350 Ladera Circle where he
spent much of his final decade in the city.
Drive, walk or bike tour of the
homes of the Stars
Pick up rental bikes in old Palm
Springs historic area, then follow self guided maps past home where all the stars
screwed and drank their brains out, Elvis, JFK, Marilyn, the Gabor sisters,
Liberace, etc.
Pick up free map of the stars'
homes at
Palm Springs Visitor Center
2901 North Palm Canyon Drive
Corner of North Palm Canyon Drive
and Tramway
Palm Springs CA 92262
Open 9 - 5 PM Daily
760-778-8418
Casino Gambling - not in the
center of Palm Springs. Instead, head south on interstate to casinos in the
Indio area. Better casinos and odds. But sleazy oldsters.
Jeweler - M. Schwartz Estate
Jewelers. Downtown Palm Springs @ 112 North Palm Canyon Drive (just
North of Tahquiz Canyon intersection. north of Ramon Road Palm Springs,
CA 92262, (760) 327-7524. Say hi to Betty, Carol and Mel (owner) & Mr.
Isaac Outland, the negotiator and great guy.
Drive Up to Idyllwild – a
quaint mountain village, located a mile high above neighboring desert
communities, a respite from the summer heat and a cool, snowy wonderland in
winter. The highways to Idyllwild provide stunning views, diverse
terrain from the deserts below up to our towering pines, all on well
maintained, easy mountain roads.
From Palm Desert, take Hwy 74,
start at Hwy 111 just west of Cook. Takes about an hour to drive there.
Chamber of Commerce info:
Shopping
Fry’s - about 7 miles from
downtown Huntington Beach, 10800 Kalama River Ave, Fountain Valley, CA 92708.
(714) 378-4400
Fry’s Wedsite
Fry’s Ad Specials
1. Depart 512 13th St, Huntington
Beach, CA 92648
2. Turn LEFT (North) onto Main St
which changes to Ellis Ave.
3. Go thru Beach Intersection and
continue heading away from H.B.
4. Turn LEFT (North) onto
Brookhurst St - Mimi’s Café on Brookhurst @ Ellis)
5. Turn RIGHT (East) onto Talbert
Ave with Shell and Chevron gas on corner than over F’way.
6. Turn RIGHT (South) onto Mt Shay
St
7. Then right again onto Kalama
River Ave, Fountain Valley and Fry’s is in rear. To exit, you must bear right and get back
on F’way then off at Brookhurst exit.
Fry’s @ City of Industry, 13401
Crossroads Parkway North, City Of Industry, CA
(562) 463-2400 
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Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Fun in Palm Desert & Palm Springs - Updated
Monday, December 22, 2014
Quotes About The Internet
http://www.quotegarden.com/internet.html
Welcome to The Quote Garden!
celebrating 16 years online 1998-2014
The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor. ~John Allen Paulos
The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom. ~Jon Stewart
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. ~Mitch Kapor, variation of a quote by Jerome Weisner (Getting an education from MIT is like taking a drink from a fire hose.)
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. ~Bill Gates
Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks. ~Author Unknown
National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway. ~Tim May
Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward. ~Al-Waleed bin Talal
Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the Net, it looks like very soon everyone on Earth will have 15 megabytes of fame. ~M.G. Sriram
A journey of a thousand sites begins with a single click. ~Author Unknown
What, exactly, is the Internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a "modem" can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo. ~Dave Barry
I have an almost religious zeal — not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up. ~Dan Millman
The Internet isn't free. It just has an economy that makes no sense to capitalism. ~Brad Shapcott
While you are destroying your mind watching the worthless, brain-rotting drivel on TV, we on the Internet are exchanging, freely and openly, the most uninhibited, intimate and, yes, shocking details about our config.sys settings. ~Dave Barry
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. ~Andrew Brown
Internet: absolute communication, absolute isolation. ~Paul Carvel
Emails we can read, say no to 'send a receipt', mark as unread, categorise, label and put in a folder whilst drinking tea and thinking about other things. It's hard work making the right noises and facial expressions in response to an in-person reminder. ~Neil Cottingham
Information on the Internet is subject to the same rules and regulations as conversation at a bar. ~George Lundberg
Television to brainwash us all and Internet to eliminate any last resistance. ~Paul Carvel
Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life. ~Bill Clinton
One of the Internet's strengths is its ability to help consumers find the right needle in a digital haystack of data. ~Jared Sandberg
We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. ~Robert Wilensky, 1996
You can't take something off the Internet — it's like taking pee out of a pool. ~Author Unknown, 1995
The Internet is based on a layered, end-to-end model that allows people at each level of the network to innovate free of any central control. By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation. ~Vinton Cerf
Hooked on Internet? Help is a just a click away. ~Author Unknown
Entire new continents can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on your screen. Contrary to what you may have heard, the Internet does not operate at the speed of light; it operates at the speed of the Department of Motor Vehicles. ~Dave Barry, Dave Barry in Cyberspace
The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. ~Rupert Murdoch
The advent of electronic mail is fostering a revival of "the familiar letter." ~Author Unknown
The Internet is clearly about more than sports scores and email now. It's a place where we can conduct our democracy and get very large amounts of data to very large numbers of people. ~Frank James
My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. ~Penn Jillett
The Internet is a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean, "people without lives." We don't care. We have each other. ~Dave Barry
The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had. ~Eric Schmidt
The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity. ~Clifford Stoll
Warning: the Internet may contain traces of nuts. ~Author Unknown
Twitter is just a multiplayer notepad. ~Ben Maddox
The big dispute between the government and Microsoft concerns the Internet "browser," which is the piece of software that puts a message on your computer screen informing you that the Internet is currently busy and you should try again later. As you can imagine, the potential market for this service is huge, so Microsoft would like you to use its browser, and not somebody else's. ~Dave Barry, 1998
Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet. ~Vinton Cerf
Blogs seem to have two magnetic poles, one attracting friends, the other repulsing relatives. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Sometimes I imagine a get-together where I introduce my family to my blogger friends and my blogger friends introduce my family to me. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy. ~Clement Mok
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. ~Dave Barry
What do you call a doctor that fixes websites? A URLologist. ~Author Unknown
The Internet is the most powerful magnifier of slack ever invented. ~Author Unknown
Almost overnight, the Internet's gone from a technical wonder to a business must. ~Bill Schrader
Laying in bed this morning contemplating how amazing it would be if somehow Oscar Wilde and Mae West could twitter from the grave. ~Dita Von Teese
Cutting through the acronyms and argot that littered the hearing testimony, the Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not, through the CDA, interrupt that conversation. ~Stewart Dalzell, ruling on the constitutionality of the Communications Decency Act, 1996
The Net treats censorship as a defect and routes around it. ~John Gilmore, 1993
#undernocircumstances shud sum1 feel its ok 2 tlk lik this. You have 140 characters. Use them and stop typing like you're illiterate. ~@Lord_Voldemort7
A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the Universe and move bits of it about. ~Douglas Adams
The Internet interprets the US Congress as system damage and routes around it. ~Jeanne DeVoto, take-off on a quote by John Gilmore
I believe that social media's greatest gift is in providing every person the forum to be themselves, speak their heart & soul. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com
The Internet is full. Go away. ~Author Unknown
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a "fix" of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine. ~Rob Stampfli
A Mission Statement is a dense slab of words that a large organization produces when it needs to establish that its workers are not just sitting around downloading Internet porn. ~Dave Barry
If you have a web site, it makes your small business look big. ~Natalie Sequera
The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things — of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language. ~Jim Clark
The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect. ~Esther Dyson
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it. ~William Gibson
Every bit of software wants you to be "social." What ever happened to being grumpy and alone in your writer's fugue? ~Doug Green
On Twitter we get excited if someone follows us. In real life we get really scared and run away. ~Author Unknown
No matter how well you know the rules of netiquette, you will eventually offend someone who doesn't. ~Don Rittner
There are 5,000 great people for every jerk on Usenet. But that still is a lot of jerks. Proceed with caution and eyes wide open. ~Don Rittner
The greatest thing about the internet is that you can quote something and just totally make up the source. ~Benjamin Franklin
The problem with internet quotes is that you cannot always depend on their accuracy. ~Abraham Lincoln
I'm a woofer, not a tweeter; a writer, not a telegrapher; an essayist, not an aphorist. ~Richard Turner (1937-2011), The Grammar Curmudgeon, a.k.a. "The Mudge" (2009 tweet)
A bird's song is beautiful, but if it never stops you feel like shooting it. ~Laura Ainsley, on over-zealous tweeting
[W]e're into a whole new world with the Internet, and whenever we sort of cross another plateau in our development, there are those who seek to take advantage of it. So this is a replay of things that have happened throughout our history. ~Bill Clinton
The only social networking I did this weekend was with my family. I actually let the battery on my laptop completely die. ~Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com (2009 tweet, @wildthyme)
A blogger is constantly looking over his shoulder, for fear that he is not being followed. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics. ~Denise Caruso, about the Internet
And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing. ~Scott Adams
First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure. ~Douglas Adams
I had a life once... now I have a computer. ~Author Unknown
Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC. ~Andy Grove
Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles. ~Paul A. Samuelson
The age of technology has both revived the use of writing and provided ever more reasons for its spiritual solace. Emails are letters, after all, more lasting than phone calls, even if many of them r 2 cursory 4 u. ~Anna Quindlen
When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the World Wide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page. ~Bill Clinton, 1996
Using Twitter like a dandelion uses the wind... Spreading messages, not exactly knowing where they might go, some taking roots and blossoming, some making a adventurous journey through the air but not falling on fertile ground. So what? A process of beauty and joy. ~Detlef Cordes, detlefcordes.org
The message for business people contemplating their place in cyberspace is simple and direct: get linked or get lost. ~Vic Sussman and Kenan Pollack
On the internet even our privacy is public. ~Terri Guillemets
I calculated the total time that humans have waited for web pages to load. It cancels out all the productivity gains of the information age. Sometimes I think the web is a big plot to keep people like me away from normal society. ~Scott Adams
In cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance. ~John Perry Barlow
As of now, the Internet preserves our right to access all lawful content and software without interference. In other words, the Web is a level playing field: you can read, watch, play, browse and share on the same terms as everybody else. That level playing field — or "Net Neutrality" — is under threat. If we stand by, the Internet could become increasingly closed, centrally controlled and designed to serve the few instead of the many. It's up to us to protect the open Web. That's where you come in. Now more than ever, we need to come together as a community, with a unified voice and solution, to protect the world's largest public resource. ~Mozilla, 2014
In the next few days, the House of Representatives is going to vote on a bill that would fundamentally alter the Internet. That bill, and one that may come up for a key vote in the Senate in the next few weeks, would give the big phone and cable companies the power to pick and choose what you will be able to see and do on the Internet. Today the Internet is an information highway where anybody — no matter how large or small, how traditional or unconventional — has equal access. But the phone and cable monopolies, who control almost all Internet access, want the power to choose who gets access to high-speed lanes and whose content gets seen first and fastest. They want to build a two-tiered system and block the on-ramps for those who can't pay. ~Eric Schmidt, "A Note to Google Users on Net Neutrality," Summer 2006
Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle a thing that flies. ~John Lester
A blog is a message in a bottle, both in purpose and likely readership. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
I am at a loss to figure out how to rid my e-mail of those bottom-feeders of the electronic world, the generators of spam.... If I were Emperor of the World, I would lock all the spammers in a room and force them to watch nothing but TV commercials for the rest of their miserable lives, and I would condemn the people who respond to spammers to do nothing but clean the toilets in this room. ~Richard Turner (1937-2011), The Grammar Curmudgeon, a.k.a. "The Mudge," from "The Curmudgeon Sounds Off: A Plague of Spam"
The Internet is an important cultural phenomenon, but that doesn't excuse its failure to comply with basic economic laws. The problem is that it was devised by a bunch of hippie anarchists. ~Thomas Nolle
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. ~Guy Almes
The trouble with the Internet is that it's replacing masturbation as a leisure activity. ~Patrick Murray
YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, are merging. The new program will be called YouTwitFace. ~Author Unknown
Internet users are flocking to the Vatican's new website (so they say). It turns out though, that most visitors are there to confess after visiting the Cindy Crawford site. Now, the faithful don't have to kiss the Pope's ring — you just double click on it. ~Author Unknown
If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check. ~Dan Quayle, attributed
A blogger is an average person who happens to have a need to count his friends every half hour. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
The Internet is the trailer park for the soul. ~Marilyn Manson
The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. (OK, it doesn't take a genius, or even a politician, to figure out that big changes are afoot when we have a medium that lets someone throw up a virtual storefront on the Web and instantly gain access to the global market.) ~Steven Levy, 1997
The Internet is a shallow and unreliable electronic repository of dirty pictures, inaccurate rumors, bad spelling and worse grammar, inhabited largely by people with no demonstrable social skills. ~Author Unknown
We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people. ~Pierre Omidyar
America Online customers are upset because the company has decided to allow advertising in its chat rooms. I can see why: you've got computer sex, you can download pornography, people are making dates with 10-year-olds. Hey, what's this? A Pepsi ad? They're ruining the integrity of the Internet! ~Jay Leno
I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S. Tax Code look like Dr. Seuss. ~Dave Barry
Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos... two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished. ~Clifford Stoll
Chances are, you now know that the marriage of the computer and the telephone is one of the century's seismic technical and economic developments. In terms of potential social and economic impact, it is often likened to the introduction of assembly-line manufacturing or to the invention of the computer itself. ~Author Unknown
As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion. ~Stewart Dalzell
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The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor. ~John Allen Paulos
The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom. ~Jon Stewart
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. ~Mitch Kapor, variation of a quote by Jerome Weisner (Getting an education from MIT is like taking a drink from a fire hose.)
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. ~Bill Gates
Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks. ~Author Unknown
National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway. ~Tim May
Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward. ~Al-Waleed bin Talal
Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the Net, it looks like very soon everyone on Earth will have 15 megabytes of fame. ~M.G. Sriram
A journey of a thousand sites begins with a single click. ~Author Unknown
What, exactly, is the Internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a "modem" can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo. ~Dave Barry
I have an almost religious zeal — not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up. ~Dan Millman
The Internet isn't free. It just has an economy that makes no sense to capitalism. ~Brad Shapcott
While you are destroying your mind watching the worthless, brain-rotting drivel on TV, we on the Internet are exchanging, freely and openly, the most uninhibited, intimate and, yes, shocking details about our config.sys settings. ~Dave Barry
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. ~Andrew Brown
Internet: absolute communication, absolute isolation. ~Paul Carvel
Emails we can read, say no to 'send a receipt', mark as unread, categorise, label and put in a folder whilst drinking tea and thinking about other things. It's hard work making the right noises and facial expressions in response to an in-person reminder. ~Neil Cottingham
Information on the Internet is subject to the same rules and regulations as conversation at a bar. ~George Lundberg
Television to brainwash us all and Internet to eliminate any last resistance. ~Paul Carvel
Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life. ~Bill Clinton
One of the Internet's strengths is its ability to help consumers find the right needle in a digital haystack of data. ~Jared Sandberg
We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. ~Robert Wilensky, 1996
You can't take something off the Internet — it's like taking pee out of a pool. ~Author Unknown, 1995
The Internet is based on a layered, end-to-end model that allows people at each level of the network to innovate free of any central control. By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation. ~Vinton Cerf
Hooked on Internet? Help is a just a click away. ~Author Unknown
Entire new continents can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on your screen. Contrary to what you may have heard, the Internet does not operate at the speed of light; it operates at the speed of the Department of Motor Vehicles. ~Dave Barry, Dave Barry in Cyberspace
The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. ~Rupert Murdoch
The advent of electronic mail is fostering a revival of "the familiar letter." ~Author Unknown
The Internet is clearly about more than sports scores and email now. It's a place where we can conduct our democracy and get very large amounts of data to very large numbers of people. ~Frank James
My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. ~Penn Jillett
The Internet is a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean, "people without lives." We don't care. We have each other. ~Dave Barry
The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had. ~Eric Schmidt
The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity. ~Clifford Stoll
Warning: the Internet may contain traces of nuts. ~Author Unknown
Twitter is just a multiplayer notepad. ~Ben Maddox
The big dispute between the government and Microsoft concerns the Internet "browser," which is the piece of software that puts a message on your computer screen informing you that the Internet is currently busy and you should try again later. As you can imagine, the potential market for this service is huge, so Microsoft would like you to use its browser, and not somebody else's. ~Dave Barry, 1998
Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet. ~Vinton Cerf
Blogs seem to have two magnetic poles, one attracting friends, the other repulsing relatives. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Sometimes I imagine a get-together where I introduce my family to my blogger friends and my blogger friends introduce my family to me. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy. ~Clement Mok
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. ~Dave Barry
What do you call a doctor that fixes websites? A URLologist. ~Author Unknown
The Internet is the most powerful magnifier of slack ever invented. ~Author Unknown
Almost overnight, the Internet's gone from a technical wonder to a business must. ~Bill Schrader
Laying in bed this morning contemplating how amazing it would be if somehow Oscar Wilde and Mae West could twitter from the grave. ~Dita Von Teese
Cutting through the acronyms and argot that littered the hearing testimony, the Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not, through the CDA, interrupt that conversation. ~Stewart Dalzell, ruling on the constitutionality of the Communications Decency Act, 1996
The Net treats censorship as a defect and routes around it. ~John Gilmore, 1993
#undernocircumstances shud sum1 feel its ok 2 tlk lik this. You have 140 characters. Use them and stop typing like you're illiterate. ~@Lord_Voldemort7
A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the Universe and move bits of it about. ~Douglas Adams
The Internet interprets the US Congress as system damage and routes around it. ~Jeanne DeVoto, take-off on a quote by John Gilmore
I believe that social media's greatest gift is in providing every person the forum to be themselves, speak their heart & soul. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com
The Internet is full. Go away. ~Author Unknown
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a "fix" of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine. ~Rob Stampfli
A Mission Statement is a dense slab of words that a large organization produces when it needs to establish that its workers are not just sitting around downloading Internet porn. ~Dave Barry
If you have a web site, it makes your small business look big. ~Natalie Sequera
The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things — of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language. ~Jim Clark
The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect. ~Esther Dyson
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it. ~William Gibson
Every bit of software wants you to be "social." What ever happened to being grumpy and alone in your writer's fugue? ~Doug Green
On Twitter we get excited if someone follows us. In real life we get really scared and run away. ~Author Unknown
No matter how well you know the rules of netiquette, you will eventually offend someone who doesn't. ~Don Rittner
There are 5,000 great people for every jerk on Usenet. But that still is a lot of jerks. Proceed with caution and eyes wide open. ~Don Rittner
The greatest thing about the internet is that you can quote something and just totally make up the source. ~Benjamin Franklin
The problem with internet quotes is that you cannot always depend on their accuracy. ~Abraham Lincoln
I'm a woofer, not a tweeter; a writer, not a telegrapher; an essayist, not an aphorist. ~Richard Turner (1937-2011), The Grammar Curmudgeon, a.k.a. "The Mudge" (2009 tweet)
A bird's song is beautiful, but if it never stops you feel like shooting it. ~Laura Ainsley, on over-zealous tweeting
[W]e're into a whole new world with the Internet, and whenever we sort of cross another plateau in our development, there are those who seek to take advantage of it. So this is a replay of things that have happened throughout our history. ~Bill Clinton
The only social networking I did this weekend was with my family. I actually let the battery on my laptop completely die. ~Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com (2009 tweet, @wildthyme)
A blogger is constantly looking over his shoulder, for fear that he is not being followed. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics. ~Denise Caruso, about the Internet
And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing. ~Scott Adams
First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure. ~Douglas Adams
I had a life once... now I have a computer. ~Author Unknown
Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC. ~Andy Grove
Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles. ~Paul A. Samuelson
The age of technology has both revived the use of writing and provided ever more reasons for its spiritual solace. Emails are letters, after all, more lasting than phone calls, even if many of them r 2 cursory 4 u. ~Anna Quindlen
When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the World Wide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page. ~Bill Clinton, 1996
Using Twitter like a dandelion uses the wind... Spreading messages, not exactly knowing where they might go, some taking roots and blossoming, some making a adventurous journey through the air but not falling on fertile ground. So what? A process of beauty and joy. ~Detlef Cordes, detlefcordes.org
The message for business people contemplating their place in cyberspace is simple and direct: get linked or get lost. ~Vic Sussman and Kenan Pollack
On the internet even our privacy is public. ~Terri Guillemets
I calculated the total time that humans have waited for web pages to load. It cancels out all the productivity gains of the information age. Sometimes I think the web is a big plot to keep people like me away from normal society. ~Scott Adams
In cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance. ~John Perry Barlow
As of now, the Internet preserves our right to access all lawful content and software without interference. In other words, the Web is a level playing field: you can read, watch, play, browse and share on the same terms as everybody else. That level playing field — or "Net Neutrality" — is under threat. If we stand by, the Internet could become increasingly closed, centrally controlled and designed to serve the few instead of the many. It's up to us to protect the open Web. That's where you come in. Now more than ever, we need to come together as a community, with a unified voice and solution, to protect the world's largest public resource. ~Mozilla, 2014
In the next few days, the House of Representatives is going to vote on a bill that would fundamentally alter the Internet. That bill, and one that may come up for a key vote in the Senate in the next few weeks, would give the big phone and cable companies the power to pick and choose what you will be able to see and do on the Internet. Today the Internet is an information highway where anybody — no matter how large or small, how traditional or unconventional — has equal access. But the phone and cable monopolies, who control almost all Internet access, want the power to choose who gets access to high-speed lanes and whose content gets seen first and fastest. They want to build a two-tiered system and block the on-ramps for those who can't pay. ~Eric Schmidt, "A Note to Google Users on Net Neutrality," Summer 2006
Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle a thing that flies. ~John Lester
A blog is a message in a bottle, both in purpose and likely readership. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
I am at a loss to figure out how to rid my e-mail of those bottom-feeders of the electronic world, the generators of spam.... If I were Emperor of the World, I would lock all the spammers in a room and force them to watch nothing but TV commercials for the rest of their miserable lives, and I would condemn the people who respond to spammers to do nothing but clean the toilets in this room. ~Richard Turner (1937-2011), The Grammar Curmudgeon, a.k.a. "The Mudge," from "The Curmudgeon Sounds Off: A Plague of Spam"
The Internet is an important cultural phenomenon, but that doesn't excuse its failure to comply with basic economic laws. The problem is that it was devised by a bunch of hippie anarchists. ~Thomas Nolle
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. ~Guy Almes
The trouble with the Internet is that it's replacing masturbation as a leisure activity. ~Patrick Murray
YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, are merging. The new program will be called YouTwitFace. ~Author Unknown
Internet users are flocking to the Vatican's new website (so they say). It turns out though, that most visitors are there to confess after visiting the Cindy Crawford site. Now, the faithful don't have to kiss the Pope's ring — you just double click on it. ~Author Unknown
If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check. ~Dan Quayle, attributed
A blogger is an average person who happens to have a need to count his friends every half hour. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
The Internet is the trailer park for the soul. ~Marilyn Manson
The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. (OK, it doesn't take a genius, or even a politician, to figure out that big changes are afoot when we have a medium that lets someone throw up a virtual storefront on the Web and instantly gain access to the global market.) ~Steven Levy, 1997
The Internet is a shallow and unreliable electronic repository of dirty pictures, inaccurate rumors, bad spelling and worse grammar, inhabited largely by people with no demonstrable social skills. ~Author Unknown
We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people. ~Pierre Omidyar
America Online customers are upset because the company has decided to allow advertising in its chat rooms. I can see why: you've got computer sex, you can download pornography, people are making dates with 10-year-olds. Hey, what's this? A Pepsi ad? They're ruining the integrity of the Internet! ~Jay Leno
I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S. Tax Code look like Dr. Seuss. ~Dave Barry
Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos... two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished. ~Clifford Stoll
Chances are, you now know that the marriage of the computer and the telephone is one of the century's seismic technical and economic developments. In terms of potential social and economic impact, it is often likened to the introduction of assembly-line manufacturing or to the invention of the computer itself. ~Author Unknown
As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion. ~Stewart Dalzell
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