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Quotes About Cyberspace

In the lingo, this imaginary place is known as the Metaverse. Hiro spends a lot of time in the Metaverse. It beats the shit out of the U-Stor-It.
~ Neal Stephenson
He went back to the search box and typed "Eutropians." A memory from the early days of the Internet, the 1990s tech boom.
~ Neal Stephenson
Wires warp cyberspace in the same way wormholes warp physical space: the two points at opposite ends of a wire are, for informational purposes, the same point, even if they are on opposite sides of the planet. The cyberspace-warping power of wires, therefore, changes the geometry of the world of commerce and politics and ideas that we live in.
~ Neal Stephenson
Even if, as seems likely, Islamic State is defeated in Iraq and Syria, its network in cyberspace and in the West will live on, a toxic milieu where the memes of dawa can breed, converting one loser after another to the cause of murderous martyrdom.
~ Niall Ferguson
it is no longer a mere possibility that this network can be instrumentalized by corrupt oligarchs or religious fanatics to wage a new and unpredictable kind of war in cyberspace. That war has commenced. Indices of geopolitical risk suggest that conventional and even nuclear war may not be far behind.
~ Niall Ferguson
I've got more than half of Mumbai addicted to the Internet.
~ Jackie Shroff
My muse is the digital world.
~ Nicola Formichetti
I never even had a MySpace.
~ John Cameron Mitchell
The Internet knows no national borders.
~ Alan Dershowitz
You can't take something off the Internet — it's like taking pee out of a pool.
~ Author unknown, c.1995
It is so easy to sit behind a screen and create an account that spreads hate.
~ Peyton List
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
I love computers. I think it's a miracle that you can type 'coffee stain' into a search engine and get a page of answers, but I don't like the viciousness of the Internet. It gives public voice to quite mad people.
~ Sheila Hancock
Everything about the Net is wonderful.
~ Sushmita Sen
I really enjoy computer networking.
~ Matt Mullenweg
The Internet is literally a network of networks.
~ Vint Cerf
This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries.
~ Nicholas Negroponte
Between them an image is projected: a single, winking cursor. It wants a code. It wants the code.
~ Chuck Wendig
Welcome to BigMistake.com Population: untold millons
~ Claire Cross
My son Rafi is enchanted with cyberspace. But we are not disembodied mind or spirit, we are our bodies - cruising the Internet won't teach us that. It may even trick us into thinking that having a body and a place is not important. Gardening teaches us differently. I do not mean industrial mechanized farming, I mean the kind of gardening that any one of us can do with his hands and feet and the simplest tools.
~ Vigen Guroian
Bits in the ether.
~ James Gleick
Essentially, it's not that technology or cyberspace is some parallel universe that operates tangentially from the world we know; it is simply a new front in the international system.
~ Jared Cohen
See you on the other side of the screen, if you make it, earnest cyberspace cadet.
~ Crimethinc
Timothy Leary declared that personal computers had become the new LSD and years later revised his famous mantra to proclaim, "Turn on, boot up, jack in.
~ Walter Isaacson