SMALL TALK

... On Internet and Cyberspace

Cyberspace: A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.
      -- William Gibson, from "Neuromancer"

Clintonspace - sort of like cyberspace, but with more smoke, mirrors, blind alleys, and more advertising added.
      -- Unknown

Genuinely skillful use of obscenities is uniformly absent on the Internet.
      -- Karl Kleinpaste

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

I use 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

In the real world it takes a hell of a lot of work to get published, which naturally weeds out a lot of the garbage. On the net, just a few keystrokes sends your writing to thousands of readers.
      -- Mary Anne Mohanraj

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

Internet advertising gives smaller companies the ability to compete effectively. I do believe larger companies are unhappy about that.
      -- Laurence Canter

Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
      -- Andrew Brown

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

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, Wired Magazine

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

The Internet is like a box of chocolates.
      -- Tom Limoncelli

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

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.
      -- Unknown

The Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
      -- William Gibson

Trying to control information in the information age is about as successful as pissing into the wind.
      -- Keith Henson

2.5 million use America Online. That's like a city. Parents wouldn't want their kids go wandering in a city of 2.5 million people without them, or without knowing what they're going to be doing.
      -- Pam McGraw

URLs are the 800 numbers of the 1990's.
      -- Chris Clark

With the development of the Internet...we are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire. I used to think that it was just the biggest thing since Gutenberg, but now I think you have to go back farther.
      -- John Perry Barlow

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