Friday, March 28, 2014
Cyberspace
Cyberspace. The Internet. The Information Superhighway. The World Wide Web. Not the same but close enough, which observations resonant with you?
When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the World Wide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page. ~Bill Clinton, 1996
The World Wide Web where there's so much juxtaposition of the good stuff and the not-so-good stuff and flat-out-wrong stuff or deliberate misinformation or plain ignorance. ~Vinton Cerf
Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks. ~Author Unknown
In cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance. ~John Perry Barlow
National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway. ~Tim May
The Internet isn't free. It just has an economy that makes no sense to capitalism. ~Brad Shapcott
We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. ~Robert Wilensky, 1996
You can't take something off the Internet - it's like taking pee out of a pool. ~Author Unknown
My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. ~Penn Jillett
The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand. ~Eric Schmidt
The Net treats censorship as a defect and routes around it. ~John Gilmore, 1993
The Internet interprets the US Congress as system damage and routes around it. ~Jeanne DeVoto
No matter how well you know the rules of netiquette, you will eventually offend someone who doesn't. ~Don Rittner
The greatest thing about the internet is that you can quote something and just totally make up the source. ~Benjamin Franklin
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