Quotes About Cyberspace

“We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity even if we must manufacture it from our time on the Web and our use of calling cards to connect long distance. We must "log on" somewhere, and if it is only in cyberspace, that is still far better than nowhere at all. (264)”

— Julia Cameron

“The level of intelligence has been tremendously increased, because people are thinking and communicating in terms of screens, and not in lettered books. Much of the real action is taking place in what is called cyberspace. People have learned how to boot up, activate, and transmit their brains.
Essentially, there's a universe inside your brain. The number of connections possible inside your brain is limitless. And as people have learned to have more managerial and direct creative access to their brains, they have also developed matrices or networks of people that communicate electronically. There are direct brain/computer link-ups. You can just jack yourself in and pilot your brain around in cyberspace-electronic space.”

— Timothy Leary

“AI will begin as Artificial Idiocy. Who cares if a computer can play chess or take control of cyberspace? Can it trash Tokyo, huh, huh?”

— Hal Duncan

“In cyberspace, everyone can hear you scream.”

— Christopher Buckley

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

— Newton Lee

“It made me sad when I caught myself pretending that everybody out there in cyberspace cared about what I thought, when really nobody gives a shit. And when I multiplied that sad feeling by all the millions of people in their lonely little rooms, furiously writing and posting to their lonely little pages that nobody has time to read because they're all so busy writing and posting, it kind of broke my heart.”

— Ruth Ozeki

“There were absolutely amazing photographs everywhere, on everyone's Facebook page and everyone's iPhone and Instagram, just floating around in cyberspace for eternity. People took hundreds and thousands of digital pictures; one or two, even twenty or a hundred, were bound to be great. All anyone had to do was click through them all and post the ones they liked, deleting the rest. But using film meant you never knew what was going to be a good picture, let alone a great one, until you were standing there looking at a contact sheet with a magnifying glass and deciding which to print.
Maybe nobody cared anymore, but then again, writers probably felt the same way when word processors were invented. Anyone with a story and a keyboard could write their memoir now, write the great American novel, or tweet a 140-character trope that gets retweeted and it read by hundreds of people every hour of every day.”

— Nora Raleigh Baskin

“When I get back from this book tour, I'm planning to learn the internet. Maybe I can hook up in cyberspace.”

— Armistead Maupin

“We need librarians who can handle this tremendous jumble of information that is in cyberspace.”

— Robert Darnton

“That's how it is online-there's no time in cyberspace. It's almost like everything physical evaporates, and it's just your mind and the different sites floating in a void.”

— Tim Tharp

“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

“A domain name is your address, your address on the Internet. We all have a physical address; we're all going to need an address in cyberspace. They're becoming increasingly important. I believe we'll get to the point where when you're born, you'll be issued a domain name.”

— Bob Parsons

“I don't even want to guess at what computer literacy might do to children, except to say that if cyberspace is considered a place, then there are people who are already in it and people who are not in it.”

— Sugata Mitra

“Where else but cyberspace does the introvert have the opportunity to start in our comfort zone of written communication and talk later?”

— Laurie A. Helgoe

“I removed 'cyberspace' from my vernacular. The idea, which I grew up with, of going into a place separate from the real world, is something my students just don't recognise.”

— Clay Shirky

“Is there anything about cyberspace that particularly screams Air Force? Not really. If cyber warfare is going to be as all-encompassing as it's made out to be by its vigorous proponents, then it will disseminate throughout the services even more than the drone phenomenon has.”

— Thomas P.M. Barnett

“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

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

— Nicholas Negroponte

“Like gods, we have created a new universe called cyberspace that contains great good and ominous evil. We do not know yet if this new dimension will produce more monsters than marvels, but it is too late to go back.”

— David Horsey

“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

“Bulletin boards are sort of the garage bands of cyberspace.”

— Mitch Kapor

“I am fascinated by all the new technology that creates places for us to meet in what is called cyberspace. I understand what it must have meant for the rebellions in the 19th century, especially in 1830 and 1848, when the mass circulated newspaper became so important for the spreading of information.”

— Henning Mankell

“Instead of mindlessly tossing billions at or taking billions from the Net as such, investors should be spending their time making sure that it's the future Fords and General Motors of cyberspace that are getting the capital they need.”

— James Surowiecki

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

— Jonathan Sacks

“Cyberspace as a mode of being will never go away. We live in cyberspace.”

— James Gleick

“Human rights in cyberspace are really no different from rights in the physical world.”

— Rebecca MacKinnon

“Clear limits should be set on how power is exercised in cyberspace by companies as well as governments through the democratic political process and enforced through law.”

— Rebecca MacKinnon

“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

“Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, 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.”

— David Brin

“They damaged his nervous system with a wartime Russian mycotoxin. Strapped to a bed in a Memphis hotel, his talent burning out micron by micron, he hallucinated for thirty hours. The damage was minute, subtle, and utterly effective. For Case, who'd lived for the bodiless exultation of cyberspace, it was the Fall.”

— William Gibson

“It began to be noted that the Wig had gone over the edge. Specifically, the Finn said, the Wig had become convinced that God lived in cyberspace, or perhaps that cyberspace was God, or some new manifestation of same. The Wig's ventures into theology tended to be marked by major paradigm shifts, true leaps of faith.”

— William Gibson

“Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without threatening their political power.”

— Ian Bremmer

“As Secretary of State I thought of our choices and challenges in three categories: The problems we inherited, including two wars and a global financial crisis; the new, often unexpected events and emerging threats, from the shifting sands of the Middle East to the turbulent waters of the Pacific to the uncharted terrain of cyberspace; and the opportunities presented by an increasingly networked world that could help lay the foundation for”

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“Cyberspace still exists at the pleasure of the real world.”

— Esther Dyson

“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

“There is a deadening conformity in the culture of cyberspace in which we don't intend to participate.”

— Michael Kinsley

“Every time the diaphragm winks, the camera repeats the question that now travels through cyberspace and invades, as a modern virus, the memories of machines, men and women. The question that history sets forth. The question which forces us to define ourselves and whose answer makes us human: On which side are you?”

— Subcomandante Marcos

“Before the iPhone, cyberspace was something you went to your desk to visit. Now cyberspace is something you carry in your pocket.”

— Paul Saffo

“No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.”

— Ai Weiwei

“Cyberspace, especially, draws us into the instant.”

— James Gleick

“New landscape of personal media has given us a vaster wasteland of cyberspace. But, luckily for us, there's some really wonderful stuff in it. And if history is any guide, as the media matures, the quality will continue to go up.”

— Esther Dyson

“In cyberspace things are built out of light.”

— Terence McKenna

“Everything will come true in cyberspace. That's the whole idea. What cyberspace is, on one level, it's simply the human imagination vivified, hardwired.”

— Terence McKenna

“Cyberspace is the battlefield of tomorrow ... Instead of confronting us head-to-head on the traditional battlefield, adversaries will confront the U.S. at its point of least resistance- our information infrastructure.”

— Fred Thompson

“Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society.”

— Bruce Sterling

“The future is unwritten. Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society, reflects our values and our faults, sometimes in terrifying exaggerations. It doesn't matter who you are today, if you don't show up in that mirror you are just not going to matter very much. Our kids have to show up in the mirror.”

— Bruce Sterling

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

— William Gibson

“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

“There are no bad haircuts in cyberspace.”

— Dave Barry

“There is a regulation of behavior on the Internet and in cyberspace, but that regulation is imposed primarily through code. The differences in the regulations effected through code distinguish different parts of the Internet and cyberspace. In some places, life is fairly free; in other places, it is more controlled. And the difference between these spaces is simply a difference in the architectures of control
that is, a difference in code.”

— Lawrence Lessig