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The Internet is like a vault with a screen door on the back. I don't need jackhammers and atom bomb to get in when I can walk through the door.
-Anon.
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Old hackers never die. They just go to bitnet.
-Anon.
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In Cyberspace, the 1st Amendment is a local ordinance.
-John Perry Barlow
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Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
-Andrew Brown
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The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers.
-Jamais Cascio
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URLs are the 800 numbers of the 1990's.
-Chris Clark
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And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost. We will enter the Internet version of the dark ages, an era of shifting fears and wild prejudices, transmitted to people who don't know any better.
-Michael Crichton, Speech, 2003
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Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
-Roger Ebert
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The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can't step on it. You can't go around it. You've got to get through it.
-John Evans
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Surfing on the Internet is like sex; everyone boasts about doing more than they actually do. But in the case of the Internet, it's a lot more.
-Tom Fasulo
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Cyberspace: A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.
-William Gibson
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The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
-William Gibson
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I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'
-Mike Godwin
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The ides of surfing the net -- I don't know who called it that -- it's more like slogging through the net.
-Al Di Guido
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Genuinely skillful use of obscenities is uniformly absent on the Internet.
-Karl Kleinpaste
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Information Superhighway is really an acronym for 'Interactive Network For Organizing, Retrieving, Manipulating, Accessing And Transferring Information On National Systems, Unleashing Practically Every Rebellious Human Intelligence, Gratifying Hackers, Wiseacres, And Yahoos'.
-Keven Kwaku
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Information on the Internet is subject to the same rules and regulations as conversation at a bar.
-George Lundberg
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Gays have become the unpaid secretaries of desire, filing and cataloguing human weakness. Promiscuity is now a form of bureaucracy. Tedious, eye-straining, number-crunching slave work
-Mark Simpson
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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.
-MG Siriam
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Mosaic is the 1990's equivalent of forcing friends to sit through slides of your trip to Florida - painful for everyone but the host.
-Steve G. Steinberg
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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
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If you're going to succeed at online business, you need to keep it virtually real.
-Torley
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