"The universe is
full of magical things, patiently waiting for our
wits to grow sharper"
— Eden
Philpotts
"A century from
now, observers looking back on the 1990's will
consider the advent of the Internet and the
World-Wide-Web one of the greatest watersheds of
history — comparable technologically to the
invention of moveable type, artistically to the
Renaissance, and socially to the Declaration of
Independence... Tens of thousands of creative network
citizens across the world are setting up their own
information servers and joining the Web. In the
process, those net citizens are completely bypassing
the Establishment with its bureaucracies, class
hierarchies and power structures, not to mention the
entire monolithic apparatus of the traditional
publishing industry!"
— Ray Duncan, PC
Magazine, May 16, 1995
"Cyberspace. A consensual
hallucination experienced daily by billions of
legitimate operators, in every nation, by children
being taught mathematical concepts...A graphical
representation of data abstracted from the banks of
every computer in the human system. Unthinkable
complexity. Lines of light ranged in the non-space of
the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like
city lights, receding..."
—William
Gibson (who coined the very term cyberspace) from
his seminal 1984 work, "Neuromancer", page
51
"It is the Broadway, the Champs
Élyseés of the Metaverse. It is the brilliantly lit
boulevard .... The dimensions of the Street are fixed
by a protocol, hammered out by the computer graphics
ninja overlords of the Association for Computing
Machinery's Global Multimedia Group... Like any place
in Reality, the Street is subject to development.
Developers can build their own small streets feeding
off of the main one. They can build buildings, parks,
signs, as well as things that do not exist in
Reality, such as vast hovering overhead light shows
and special neighborhoods where the rules of
three-dimensional spacetime are ignored. Put a sign
or a building on the Street and the hundred million
richest, hippest, best-connected people on the earth
will see it every day of their lives."
—Neal
Stephenson, "Snow Crash", 1992,
pages 24-25
" Just as water,
gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from
far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal
effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or
auditory images, which will appear or disappear with
a simple move- ment of the hand, hardly more than a
sign."
—Paul Valery, Aesthetics
“We are standing at the
threshold of a new century, a century that promises
to be as revolutionary in the technology that affects
our daily lives and the future of our country as the
inventions that so profoundly shaped the past 100
years."
— FCC Chairman William E.
Kennard
"The Web itself doesn't as much
change the way we do things as it changes the ease
with which we do things. And that changes
the way we do everything."
—David Siegel, The
Balkanization of the Web
“Hate destroys a
man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes
him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as
beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and
the false with the true.”
— Martin Luther
King, Jr.
"It is not the critic who
counts, not the man who points out how the strong man
stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done
better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually
in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and
sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and
comes short again and again; who knows the great
enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself
in a worthy course; who at the best, knows in the end
the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst,
if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so
that his place shall never be with those cold and
timid souls who know neither victory or defeat."
—Theodore Roosevelt, Paris
Sorbonne,1910
“The only sure
bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong
enough to protect the interests of the people, and a
people strong enough and well enough informed to
maintain its sovereign control over its
government.”
— Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, 32nd U. S. President
"The other day, I was walking my
dog around my building...on the ledge. Some people
are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of
widths."
— Steven Wright
"I woke up fat this morning.
Looking in my mirror, I could see jowls beginning to
march across my face like dunes in the Sahara. I'm
turning into Walter Matthau."
— D. Hill
"I used to be way more extensive
than I am."
— Ed. Brooks
"All the Web sites in the world
aren't going to help after they have
landed."
— Warden A. Heap
"I don't need it anymore, most
of the time."
— D. Hill
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