Cyberspace Quotes

• Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination.

  William Gibson

  Hallucinations

  1984 Neuromancer. This is the first recorded use of the term 'cyberspace'.

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• The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Technology, Squares

  1999 Business@the Speed of Thought (co-written with Collins Hemingway).

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• This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Understanding, Limits, Boundaries

  "Internet Time: Will the 'beat' go on?". www.cnn.com. February 26, 1999.

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• The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance. Now...cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.

  Ben Elton

  Book, Ignorance, Keys

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• Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.

  William Gibson

  Children, Technology, Hallucinations

  1984 Neuromancer. This is the first recorded use of the term 'cyberspace'.

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• Cyberspace is an accident of the real. Virtual reality is the accident of reality itself.

  Paul Virilio

  Real, Accidents, Reality

  Source: ctheory.net

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• I think that in an age where so much information is flying through cyberspace, we all have to be aware of the fact that some information which is sensitive, which does affect the security of individuals and relationships, deserves to be protected and we will continue to take necessary steps to do so.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Flying, Age

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• As the world is increasingly interconnected, everyone shares the responsibility of securing cyberspace.

  Newton Lee

  Responsibility, World, Share

  Newton Lee (2015). “Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness”, p.254, Springer

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• We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

  John Perry Barlow

  Technology, Government, Civilization

  "On Cat Videos and Human Rights" by Christina Gagnier, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2010.

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• In cyberspace, 95 per cent of what you read is hearsay.

  David Tang

  Cents, Hearsay

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• Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society.

  Bruce Sterling

  Mirrors

  1993 National Academy of Sciences Convocationon Technology and Education,Washington DC,10 May.

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• Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

  Mitchell Kapor

  Technology, Fire, Data Collection

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• Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Real, Space, People

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• Something there is in cyberspace that doesn't love an apostrophe.

  Mary Norris

  Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.131, W. W. Norton & Company

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• "Cyberspace is everting." It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state.

  William Gibson

  Reality, Entrepreneur, Everyday

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• I have spent most of my adult life proving that I existed. A blog is an accessible way of doing this - there is a date and place in cyberspace that I existed a year ago, to the day, and the proof is still there.

  Lemn Sissay

  Years, Adults, Way

  "'Look, I existed then too'". Interview with Natalie Hanman, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2007.

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• In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

  John Perry Barlow

  Space, Politics, Firsts

  "Can't censor the internet? Tell that to your compliant ISP" by John Naughton, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2006.

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• Cyberspace undeniably reflects some form of geography.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Internet, Geography, Form

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• I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.

  Bruce Sterling

  Technology, Thinking, Years

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• The cyberspace 'earnings' I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me, and that I can depend on in return.

  Linus Torvalds

  Trust, People, Earning

  "FM Interviews: Interview with Linus Torvalds: What motivates software developers". Interview with Rishabh Aiyer Ghosh, firstmonday.org. October 3, 2005.

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• I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

  John Perry Barlow

  Home, Past, Mind

  "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" by John Perry Barlow, www.eff.org. February 8, 1996.

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• The right to express one's views, practice one's faith, peacefully assemble with others to pursue political or social change - these are all rights to which all human beings are entitled, whether they choose to exercise them in a city square or an Internet chat room. And just as we have worked together since the last century to secure these rights in the material world, we must work together in this century to secure them in cyberspace.

  Hillary Clinton

  Exercise, Squares, Rights

  Address to the Ministerial Conference on Internet Freedom, delivered 8 December 2011, Fokker Terminal, The Hague, Netherlands

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• A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.

  William Gibson

  Light, Data, Cities

  1984 Neuromancer. This is the first recorded use of the term 'cyberspace'.

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• One Body, Many Blogs is a nifty look at the mission to cyberspace that Christians, obedient to the Spirit, have undertaken! Read it and be inspired!

  Mark P. Shea

  Christian, Looks, Body

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• About 90 percent of what's out there in cyberspace is hearsay - or lies - and opinion, often misinformed opinion, and it's all repeated over and over again.

  David Tang

  Lying, Opinion, Hearsay

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