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Snoop Dogg

Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. (born October 20, 1971), known professionally as Snoop Dogg (previously Snoop Doggy Dogg and briefly Snoop Lion), is an American rapper, record producer, and actor from California.

Quotes

 * Oh, you've got a gun? So, you want to pop that?
 * "Drop It Like It's Hot" (2004), R&G: The Masterpiece (2004).

 *  "Yo' waddup; this is Snoop D-O-Double-G sayin' stop the violence, drop the guns, and increase the peace."
 * Midnight Love, Death Row: Snoop Doggy Dogg at His Best (2001).

 * ''' What did Snoop Dogg say to a guy carryin' an umbrella? "looks like drizzle ma nizzle"

 * Now this No Limit shit, No Limit nigga Everbody wanna know how this shit happens, but we ain't playa hatin' And what's goin' on, but ya know what?  It don't get no realer than this though dog.
 * "Get Bout It & Rowdy", Da Game Is To Be Sold, Not To Be Told (1998).

 * I had to shake the spot cause the game got crowded I'm devoted and quote it, I'm rowdy and bout it A No Limit Soldier, and happy to shout it.
 * "Get Bout It & Rowdy", Da Game Is To Be Sold, Not To Be Told (1998).

 * I'm sellin this shit, I ain't tellin this shit, I'm a mutha fuckin 2-time felon ya bitch From the cold hearted streets of the LBC To a mansion in the south down the street from my nigga P See, real niggas recognize the realness Put ya muthafuckin' choppers up if ya feel this.
 * "Get Bout It & Rowdy", Da Game Is To Be Sold, Not To Be Told (1998).

 * So if you got your chrome, you need to stay in the zone And get a vest for your mutha fuckin dome Cause it's on like a dog with out his bone I'm in it to win it and No Limit is my home (for life for life).
 * "Get Bout It & Rowdy", Da Game Is To Be Sold, Not To Be Told (1998).

 * I'm a gangsta, but y'all knew that Da Big Boss Dogg, yeah I had to do that I keep a blue flag hanging out my backside, only on the left side, yeah that's the Crip side.
 * "Drop It Like It's Hot", R&G: The Masterpiece (2004).

 * '''Waitin' on the pizzle, the dizzle and the shizzle G's to the bizzack, now ladies here we gizzo.
 * "Drop It Like It's Hot", R&G: The Masterpiece (2004).

 * Mr. D, why is you doin' the Big Nasty on my bed?!
 * "Las Vegas TV Series", (2004).

 * Sex is like a beautiful meeting of genitalia. It's the dance of love between a penis and vagina.
 * Interview with BASE Magazine (April 2005).

 * When I'm not longer rappin', I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.

 * So what if I'm smokin' weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It's not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It's a peaceful gesture and they have to respect that and appreciate that.

 * I keep hearing about muthafucking Harry Potter. Who is this muthafucker?

 * If the ride is more fly, you must buy

 * Fuck Bill O'Reilly. He's a muthafucking prick.
 * "Jensen TV Series (Dutch)", (2007).

 * The revolution will be televised.
 * "Welcome to the world of the Plastic Beach", Plastic Beach by Gorillaz (2010).

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Quintilian

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (c. 35 – c. 100), was a Roman rhetorician. His De Institutione Oratoria was widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing.

De Institutione Oratoria (c. 95 AD)

 * Falsa enim est querela, paucissimis hominibus vim percipiendi quae tradantur esse concessam, plerosque vero laborem ac tempora tarditate ingenii perdere. Nam contra plures reperias et faciles in excogitando et ad discendum promptos. Quippe id est homini naturale, ac sicut aves ad volatum, equi ad cursum, ad saevitiam ferae gignuntur, ita nobis propria est mentis agitatio atque sollertia.
 * It is a complaint without foundation that "to very few people is granted the faculty of comprehending what is imparted to them, and that most, through dullness of understanding, lose their labor and their time." On the contrary, you will find the greater number of men both ready in conceiving and quick in learning, since such quickness is natural to man. As birds are born to fly, horses to run, and wild beasts to show fierceness, so to us peculiarly belong activity and sagacity of understanding.
 * Book I, Chapter I, 1; translation by Rev. John Selby Watson

 * Laudem virtutis necessitati damus.
 * We give to necessity the praise of virtue.
 * Book I, Chapter VIII, 14
 * Compare: "To maken vertue of necessite", Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, "The Knightes Tale", line 3044

 * Atque eam natura ipsa videtur ad tolerandos facilius labores velut muneri nobis dedisse, si quidem et remigem cantus hortatur; nec solum in iis operibus in quibus plurium conatus praeeunte aliqua iucunda voce conspirat, sed etiam singulorum fatigatio quamlibet se rudi modulatione solatur.
 * Rev. John Selby Watson's translation:
 * Nature herself, indeed, seems to have given music to us as a benefit, to enable us to endure labors with greater facility, for musical sounds cheer even the rower; and it is not only in those works in which the efforts of many, while some pleasing voice leads them, conspire together that music is of avail, but the toil even of people at work by themselves finds itself soothed by song, however rude.
 * H. E. Butler's translation:
 * Indeed nature itself seems to have given music as a boon to men to lighten the strain of labour: even the rower in the galleys is cheered to effort by song. Nor is this function of music confined to cases where the efforts of a number are given union by the sound of some sweet voice that sets the tune, but even solitary workers find solace at their toil in artless song.
 * Book I, Chapter X, 16

 * Quamlibet multa egerimus, quodam tamen modo recentes sumus ad id quod incipimus. quis non obtundi potest, si per totum diem cuiuscunque artis unum magistrum ferat? mutatione recreabitur sicut in cibis, quorum diversitate reficitur stomachus et pluribus minore fastidio alitur.
 * Rev. John Selby Watson's translation:
 * However many things we may have done, we are yet to a certain degree fresh for that which we are going to begin. Who, on the contrary, would not be stupified if he were to listen to the same teacher of any art, whatever it might be, through the whole day? But by change a person will be recruited, as is the case with respect to food, by varieties of which the stomach is re-invigorated and is fed with several sorts less unsatisfactorily than with one.
 * H. E. Butler's translation:
 * However manifold our activities, in a certain sense we come fresh to each new subject. Who can maintain his attention, if he has to listen for a whole day to one teacher harping on the same subject, be it what it may? Change of studies is like change of foods: the stomach is refreshed by their variety and derives greater nourishment from variety of viands.
 * Book I, Chapter XII, 5

 * Adeo facilius est multa facere quam diu.
 * So much easier is it to do many things than to do one thing for a long time continuously.
 * Book I, Chapter XII, 7; translation by H. E. Butler

 * Vtrubique autem orator meminisse debebit actione tota quid finxerit, quoniam solent excidere quae falsa sunt: verumque est illud quod vulgo dicitur, mendacem memorem esse oportere.
 * In either case the orator should bear clearly in mind throughout his whole speech what the fiction is to which he has committed himself, since we are apt to forget our falsehoods, and there is no doubt about the truth of the proverb that a liar should have a good memory.
 * Book IV, Chapter II, 91; translation by H. E. Butler
 * Compare: "Liars ought to have good memories", Algernon Sidney, Discourses on Government, chapter ii, section xv.
 * Alternate translation for "solent excidere quae falsa sunt": False things tend to be forgotten

 * Primum est igitur ut apud nos valeant ea quae valere apud iudicem volumus, adficiamurque antequam adficere conemur.
 * Accordingly, the first essential is that those feelings should prevail with us that we wish to prevail with the judge, and that we should be moved ourselves before we attempt to move others.
 * Book VI, Chapter II, 28; translation by H. E. Butler

 * Quare non ut intellegere possit sed ne omnino possit non intellegere curandum.
 * We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
 * Book VIII, Chapter II, 24

 * Modesto tamen et circumspecto iudicio de tantis viris pronuntiandum est, ne, quod plerisque accidit, damnent quae non intellegunt.
 * H. E. Butler's translation:
 * But modesty and circumspection are required in pronouncing judgment on such great men, since there is always the risk of falling into the common fault of condemning what one does not understand.
 * Book X, Chapter I, 26
 * Rev. John Selby Watson's translation:
 * Yet students must pronounce with diffidence and circumspection on the merits of such illustrious characters, lest, as is the case with many, they condemn what they do not understand.
 * Note: The Latin for "They condemn what they do not understand" is Damnant quod non intellegunt. (Damnent quae non intellegunt, as in the original text, is in the subjunctive mood.

 * Historia et scribitur ad narrandum non ad probandum.
 * History is written for the purpose of narration and not in order to give proof.
 * Book X, Chapter I, 31

 * Nihil enim rerum ipsa natura voluit magnum effici cito, praeposuitque pulcherrimo cuique operi difficultatem: quae nascendi quoque hanc fecerit legem, ut maiora animalia diutius visceribus parentis continerentur.
 * For it is an ordinance of nature that nothing great can be achieved in a moment, and that all the fairest tasks are attended with difficulty, while on births as well she has imposed this law, that the larger the animal, the longer should be the period of gestation.
 * Book X, Chapter III, 4; translation by H. E. Butler
 * Compare: Natura non facit saltus

 * Pectus est enim quod disertos facit, et vis mentis.
 * For it is feeling and force of imagination that makes us eloquent.
 * Book X, Chapter VII, 15

 * Qui stultis videri eruditi volunt stulti eruditis videntur.
 * Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
 * Book X, Chapter VII, 21
 * See also: An X among Ys, a Y among Xs

 * Sit ergo nobis orator quem constituimus is qui a M. Catone finitur vir bonus dicendi peritus, verum, id quod et ille posuit prius et ipsa natura potius ac maius est, utique vir bonus.
 * Let the orator whom I propose to form, then, be such a one as is characterized by the definition of Marcus Cato, a good man skilled in speaking. But the requisite which Cato has placed first in this definition—that an orator should be a good man—is naturally of more estimation and importance than the other.
 * Book XII, Chapter I, 1; translation by Rev. John Selby Watson

 * Mutos enim nasci et egere omni ratione satius fuisset quam providentiae munera in mutuam perniciem convertere.
 * For it had been better for men to be born dumb and devoid of reason than to turn the gifts of providence to their mutual destruction.
 * Book XII, Chapter I, 2; translation by H. E. Butler

 * Neque enim tantum id dico, eum qui sit orator virum bonum esse oportere, sed ne futurum quidem oratorem nisi virum bonum. Nam certe neque intellegentiam concesseris iis qui proposita honestorum ac turpium via peiorem sequi malent, neque prudentiam, cum in gravissimas frequenter legum, semper vero malae conscientiae poenas a semet ipsis inproviso rerum exitu induantur.
 * I do not merely assert that the ideal orator should be a good man, but I affirm that no man can be an orator unless he is a good man. For it is impossible to regard those men as gifted with intelligence who on being offered the choice between the two paths of virtue and of vice choose the latter, nor can we allow them prudence, when by the unforeseen issue of their own actions they render themselves liable not merely to the heaviest penalties of the laws, but to the inevitable torment of an evil conscience.
 * Book XII, Chapter I, 3; translation by H. E. Butler

 * Videor mihi audire quosdam (neque enim deerunt umquam qui diserti esse quam boni malint) illa dicentis: "Quid ergo tantum est artis in eloquentia? cur tu de coloribus et difficilium causarum defensione, nonnihil etiam de confessione locutus es, nisi aliquando vis ac facultas dicendi expugnat ipsam veritatem? Bonus enim vir non agit nisi bonas causas, eas porro etiam sine doctrina satis per se tuetur veritas ipsa."
 * But I fancy that I hear some (for there will never be wanting men who would rather be eloquent than good) saying "Why then is there so much art devoted to eloquence? Why have you given precepts on rhetorical coloring and the defense of difficult causes, and some even on the acknowledgment of guilt, unless, at times, the force and ingenuity of eloquence overpowers even truth itself? For a good man advocates only good causes, and truth itself supports them sufficiently without the aid of learning."
 * Book XII, Chapter I, 33; translation by Rev. John Selby Watson

 * Et hercule quantumlibet secreta studia contulerint, est tamen proprius quidam fori profectus, alia lux, alia veri discriminis facies, plusque, si separes, usus sine doctrina quam citra usum doctrina valeat.
 * To say the truth, whatever improvement private study may produce, there is still a peculiar advantage attendant on our appearance in the forum, where the light is different and there is an appearance of real responsibility quite different from the fictitious cases of the schools. If we estimate the two separately, practice without learning will be of more avail than learning without practice.
 * Book XII, Chapter VI, 4; translation by Rev. John Selby Watson

Misattributed

 * Vain hopes are often like the dreams of those who wake.
 * Perhaps confusion of Book VI, Chapter II, 30
 * Similar to Matthew Prior: "For hope is but the dream of those that wake", Solomon on the Vanity of the World, book iii, line 102.
 * Similar to Diogenes Laërtius: "The question was put to him [Aristotle], what hope is; and his answer was, 'The dream of a waking man.'" The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book V, Chapter I.

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William Gibson

William Ford Gibson (born 17 March 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984).

Gibson's novels are grouped into four informal trilogies:
 * Sprawl trilogy quotes
 * Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive
 * Bridge trilogy quotes
 * Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow's Parties
 * Blue Ant trilogy quotes
 * Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, Zero History
 * Jackpot trilogy quotes
 * The Peripheral, Agency

Quotes

 * On the most basic level, computers in my books are simply a metaphor for human memory: I'm interested in the hows and whys of memory, the ways it defines who and what we are, in how easily memory is subject to revision. When I was writing Neuromancer, it was wonderful to be able to tie a lot of these interests into the computer metaphor. It wasn't until I could finally afford a computer of my own that I found out there's a drive mechanism inside — this little thing that spins around. I'd been expecting an exotic crystalline thing, a cyberspace deck or something, and what I got was a little piece of a Victorian engine that made noises like a scratchy old record player. That noise took away some of the mystique for me; it made computers less sexy. My ignorance had allowed me to romanticize them.
 * Interview with Larry McCaffery in Storming the Reality Studio : A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Science Fiction, Duke University Press (December 1991)

 * The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.
 * He is reported to have first said this in an interview on Fresh Air, NPR (31 August 1993) {unverified}, he repeated it, prefacing it with "As I've said many times…" in "The Science in Science Fiction" on Talk of the Nation, NPR (30 November 1999, Timecode 11:55). See also The future has arrived... - Quote Investigator.

 * The NET is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
 * Name of an article he wrote for New York Times Magazine (14 July 1996)

 * In 1977, facing first-time parenthood and an absolute lack of enthusiasm for anything like "career," I found myself dusting off my twelve-year-old's interest in science fiction. Simultaneously, weird noises were being heard from New York and London. I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign. And I began, then, to write. And have been, ever since.
 * "Since 1948," an essay formerly posted on williamgibsonbooks.com (6 November 2002) and subsequently published in Distrust that Particular Flavor.

 * The future is not google-able.
 * Comments at A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books, San Francisco, California (5 February 2004)

 * There is always a point at which the terrorist ceases to manipulate the media gestalt. A point at which the violence may well escalate, but beyond which the terrorist has become symptomatic of the media gestalt itself. Terrorism as we ordinarily understand it is innately media-related.
 * Official blog at williamgibsonbooks.com (31 October 2004)

 * Loss is not without its curious advantages for the artist. Major traumatic breaks are pretty common in the biographies of artists I respect.
 * Interview in The New York Times Magazine (19 August 2007)

 * The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great length. If not for our excessive vanity and our over-active imaginations, novelists might be unusually difficult to deceive.
 * Twitter tweet (31 May 2009)

 * Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.
 * Interview in Paris Review Summer 2011

 * This perpetual toggling between nothing being new, under the sun, and everything having very recently changed, absolutely, is perhaps the central driving tension of my work.
 * At the Booksmith, reading from Distrust That Particular Flavor. (19 January 2012).

 * We no longer grow the full beef of bohemia, It's all veal now.
 * Intelligence Squared on 'Zero History' with Cory Doctorow (5th October 2010)

Burning Chrome (short story collection, 1986)

 * I put the shotgun in an Adidas bag and padded it out with four pairs of tennis socks, not my style at all, but that was what I was aiming for: If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical, go crude. I'm a very technical boy.
 * "Johnny Mnemonic" (originally published in Omni magazine, 1981)

 * We're an information economy. They teach you that in school. What they don't tell you is that it's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. Fragments that can be retrieved, amplified...
 * "Johnny Mnemonic"

 * “As broker, I'm usually very careful as to sources.” “You buy only from those who steal the best. Got it.”
 * "Johnny Mnemonic"

 * "Last week I was in Virginia. Grayson County," Kihn said. "I interviewed a sixteen-year-old girl who'd been assaulted 'bya bar hade.'" "A what?" "A bear head. The severed head of a bear. This bar hade, see, was floating around on its own little flying saucer…Now that is the…straight goods from the mass unconscious. That little girl is a witch. There's just no place for her to function in this society. She'd have seen the devil, if she hadn't been brought up on 'The Bionic Man' and all those Star Trek reruns. She is clued into the main vein."
 * "The Gernsbach Continuum" (orginally published in the anthology Universe 11, 1981. Grayson County is located in a neighboring county to Gibson's childhood home.)

 * "If you want a classier explanation, I'd say you saw a semiotic ghost," Kihn said. "All these contactee stories, for instance, are framed in a kind of sci-fi imagery that permeates our culture. I could buy aliens, but not aliens that look like Fifties' comic art."
 * "The Gernsbach Continuum"

 * "Hell of a world we live in…" "That's right," I said, "or even worse, it could be perfect."
 * "The Gernsbach Continuum"

 * Parker saw his first ASP unit in a Texas shantytown called Judy's Jungle. It was a massive console cased in cheap plastic chrome. A ten-dollar bill fed into the slot bought you five minutes of free-fall gymnastics in a Swiss orbital spa, trampolining through twenty-meter perihelions with a sixteen-year-old Vogue model, heady stuff for the Jungle, where it was simpler to buy a gun than a hot bath.
 * "Fragments of a Hologram Rose" (Gibson's first published story, originally appearing in Unearth 3, 1977)

 * She swam through the submarine half-life of bottles and glassware and the slow swirl of cigarette smoke...she moved through her natural element, one bar after another.
 * "The Belonging Kind" (co-authored with John Shirley, originally appearing in Shadows 4, 1981)

 * Coretti didn't know how to dress. Clothing was a language and Coretti a kind of sartorial stutterer, unable to make the kind of basic coherent fashion statement that would put strangers at their ease.
 * "The Belonging Kind"

 * The part of Coretti that was dialectologist stirred uneasily; too perfect a shift in phrasing and inflection. An actress? A talented mimic? The word mimetic rose suddenly in his mind, but he pushed it aside to study her reflection in the mirror; the rows of bottles occluded her breasts like a gown of glass.
 * "The Belonging Kind"

 * They had better luck with the seashell. Exobiology suddenly found itself standing on unnervingly solid ground: one and seven-tenths grams of highly organized biological information, definitely extraterrestrial. Olga's seashell generated an entire subbranch of the science, devoted exclusively to the study of...Olga's seashell.
 * "Hinterlands" (originally appearing in Omni, October 1981)

 * So now it's cargo cult time for the human race. We can pick things up out there that we might not stumble across in research in a thousand years...Charmian says that contact with "superior" civilizations is something you don't wish on your worst enemy.
 * "Hinterlands"

 * Colonel Korolev twisted slowly in his harness, dreaming of winter and gravity. Young again, a cadet, he whipped his horse across the late November steppes of Kazakhstan into dry red vistas of Martian sunset.
 * "Red Star, Winter Orbit" (co-authored with Bruce Sterling, originally appearing in Omni, July 1983)

 * "The sun balloons!" cried Grishkin, pointing toward the earth. Kosmograd was above the coast of California now, clean shorelines, intensely green fields, vast decaying cities whose names rang with a strange magic. High above a fleece of stratocumulus floated five solar balloons, mirrored geodesic spheres tethered by power lines. "And they say that people live in those things?"
 * "Red Star, Winter Orbit"

 * For more than three decades the Americans had been gradually sliding into isolationism and industrial decline. Space, he thought ruefully, they should have gone into space. He'd never understood the strange paralysis of will that had seemed to grip their brilliant early efforts. Or perhaps it was simply a failure of imagination, of vision.
 * "Red Star, Winter Orbit"

 * When the knocking came, he knew that it must be a dream as well. The hatch wheeled open. He saw that the woman was black. Long corkscrews of matted hair rose like cobras around her head. "Andy," she said in English, "you better come see this!" "Is he alive?" "Of course I am alive." said Korolev in slightly accented English. The man called Andy sailed in over her head. "You okay, Jack?" His right bicep was tattooed with a geodesic balloon above crossed lightning bolts and bore the legend SUNSPARK 15, UTAH. "We weren't expecting anybody." "Neither was I," said Korolev, blinking.
 * "Red Star, Winter Orbit"

 * Korolev stared at the man, who had the blundering, careless look of someone drunk on freedom since birth.
 * "Red Star, Winter Orbit"

 * "But why?" Korolev shook his head, deeply confused. "Why have you come?" "We told you. To live here…Who'd want to live out here for the sake of some government, some army brass, a bunch of pen pushers? You have to want a frontier—want it in your bones, right?" Korolev smiled. Andy grinned back.
 * "Red Star, Winter Orbit"

 * Kosmograd's hull rang again... "East Los Angeles," the woman said. "That's the one with the kids in it." She took off her goggles, and Korolev saw her eyes brimming over with a wonderful lunacy.
 * "Red Star, Winter Orbit"

 * We strolled past bales of raw wool and plastic tubs of Chinese microchips. I hinted that my employers planned to manufacture synthetic beta-endorphin. Always try to give them something they understand.
 * "New Rose Hotel" (set in the Sprawl universe, first appearing in Omni, July 1984)

 * But then there are days when it's like they whip aside a curtain to flash you three minutes of sunlit, suspended mountain, the trademark at the start of God's own movie. It was like that the day her agents phoned, from deep in the heart of their mirrored pyramid on Beverly Boulevard, to tell me she'd merged with the net, crossed over for good...
 * "The Winter Market" (originally appearing in Vancouver magazine, November 1985)

 * Got my jacket and took the stairs three at a time, straight out to the nearest bar and an eight-hour blackout that ended on a concrete ledge two meters above midnight.
 * "The Winter Market"

 * I stood there for a long time before I took that first step back. Because she was dead, and I'd let her go. Because, now, she was immortal, and I'd helped her get that way. And because I knew she'd phone me, in the morning.
 * "The Winter Market"

 * There was coffee. Life would go on.
 * "The Winter Market"

 * If I was looking to be depressed, I’d come to the right place.
 * "The Winter Market"

 * Bets were being made, being covered. The kickers were producing the hard stuff, the old stuff, liberty-headed dollars and Roosevelt dimes from the stamp-and-coin stores, while more cautious bettors slapped down antique paper dollars laminated in clear plastic. Through the haze came a trio of red planes, flying in formation. Fokker D.VIIs. The room fell silent.
 * "Dogfight" (co-authored with Michael Swanwick, first appearing in Omni, July 1985)

 * Deke looked at her through a wash of tears. Student. That fed look, the oversize sweatshirt, teeth so straight and white they could be used as a credit reference.
 * "Dogfight"

 * Vasopressin makes you remember, I mean really remember. Clinically they use the stuff to counter senile amnesia, but the street finds its own uses for things.
 * "Burning Chrome" (The Burning Chrome anthology was named after this short story, originally published in Omni, 1982)

 * We were looking for the world's heaviest fence, for a non-aligned money laundry capable of dry-cleaning a megabuck online cash transfer and then forgetting about it...It was the Finn who put me on to what we needed. He even had the number. You want a fence, ask another fence.
 * "Burning Chrome" (The Finn appears in four of Gibson's fictional works, possibly the most of any of his characters. "Burning Chrome" contains the first of his appearances, which continue throughout the Sprawl trilogy.)

 * "Macao," the Finn said. "Macao?" "The Long Hum family. Stockbrokers." The Long Hum people were so oblique that they made my idea of a subtle approach look like a tactical nuke-out.
 * "Burning Chrome"

No Maps for These Territories (documentary, 2000)

 * On the mediated world

 * I think the last time I had one of those "CNN moments," where I was slammed right up against the windshield of the present, would have been seeing that federal building in Oklahoma City lying there in its own crater...and getting the idea that something bad had happened in Middle America. Whenever something like this happens, it ups the ante on being a science-fiction writer. It changes the nature of the game.

 * Another example — maybe a better one, in a way — was when it was confirmed that Michael Jackson was going to marry Elvis Presley's daughter. A good friend of mine in the States faxed me, and he simply said, "This makes your job more difficult." And I knew exactly what he meant. Because something — a scenario — that seemed to belong to the universe of the late Terry Southern, was suddenly real. It's that truth-is-stranger-than-fiction factor keeps getting jacked up on us on a fairly regular, maybe even exponential, basis. I think that's something peculiar to our time. I don't think our grandparents had to live with that.

 * On his youth

 * It had much more to do with my wanting to be with hippie girls and have lots of hashish than it did with my sympathy for the plight of the North Vietnamese people under US imperialism. Much more, much more to do with hippy girls and hashish.
 * On dodging the draft and moving to Toronto

 * Consequently, when I got to Toronto, much to my chagrin, I really couldn't handle hanging out with the American draft dodgers. There was too much clinical depression. Too much suicide. Too much hardcore substance abuse. They were a traumatized lot, those boys. And I just felt frivolous.

 * The straight world didn't end. The straight world and the other world had bled into one another and produced the world that we live in today.

 * Drugs were absolutely central to that experience, but they weren't essential. I only know that in retrospect. At the time I'm sure I would have said that they were.

 * All any drug amounts to is tweaking the incoming data. You have to be incredibly self-centered or pathetic to be satisfied with simply tweaking the incoming data.

 * On humanity and religion

 * Acceptance. Acceptance of the impermanence of being. And acceptance of the imperfect nature of being, or possibly the perfect nature of being, depending on how one looks at it. Acceptance that this is not a rehearsal. That this is it.
 * When asked what will save humanity.

 * I think of religions as franchise operations. Like chicken franchise operations. But that doesn't mean there's no chicken, right?
 * Referring to his belief that it's possible for religions to help people.

 * On writing

 * Seated each afternoon in the darkened screening room, Halliday came to recognize the targeted numerals of the Academy leader as sigils preceding the dream state of a film.
 * A sentence that he worked on for years earlier in his career, which eventually went nowhere. Troubled by inexperience in "actually getting the characters to move," he spent so much time on it that he can still remember every word more than 20 years later.

 * I became so frustrated with my inability to physically move the characters through the imaginary narrative space, that I actually developed an early form of imaginary VR technology that sort of covered my ass ... all they had to do was switch tapes and be in a different place, and I was spared the embarrassment of demonstrating that I didn't know how to get them up and down the stairs.

 * "Cyberspace" and the Internet

 * All I knew about the word "cyberspace" when I coined it, was that it seemed like an effective buzzword. It seemed evocative and essentially meaningless. It was suggestive of something, but had no real semantic meaning, even for me, as I saw it emerge on the page.

 * It will bring about the extinction of the nation-state as we know it... I think it will be as big a deal as the creation of cities.
 * Referring to the Internet

 * I didn't imagine that art girls in the Midwest would be flashing their tits in cyberspace...but I'm glad that they're doing it.
 * Asked whether the Internet is how he imagined it would be

Note: Gibson's comments about Neuromancer from this documentary can be found on the Sprawl trilogy Wikiquote page.

Distrust That Particular Flavor (2012)

 * Collected essays and articles 1989-2010. Gibson's comments from this collection about Neuromancer, Virtual Light, Pattern Recognition and Zero History can be found in those books' respective quote collections.

 * Later attempts sometimes involved outer space...I don't remember them. My wife parodied them all, not unkindly, as “His long green ears quivering, Fimo slipped from the rig.”...there was always something akin to “the rig.” Some unimagined (by me), hence unnamed, element of technology. But already I sensed that even if I had somehow come to know what the rig was, what it was for, it was better not to tell the reader just then. “Javnaker slipped from the quantum universe-splitter that wasn’t actually a time machine” would not be good for the reader.
 * Introduction: "African Thumb Piano"

 * This newfound state of No Future is, in my opinion, a very good thing. It indicates a kind of maturity, an understanding that every future is someone else's past, every present someone else's future. Upon arriving in the capital-F Future, we discover it, invariably, to be the lower-case now. The best science fiction has always known that, but it was a sort of cultural secret. When I began to write fiction, at the very end of the Seventies, I was fortunate to have been taught, as an undergraduate, that imaginary futures are always, regardless of what the authors might think, about the day in which they're written. Orwell knew it, writing Nineteen Eighty-Four in 1948, and I knew it writing Neuromancer, my first novel, which was published in 1984.
 * "Talk for Book Expo, New York," 2010.

 * Time moves in one direction, memory in another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.
 * "Dead Man Sings," published in Forbes ASAP, November 30, 1998.

 * My first impulse, when presented with any spanking-new piece of computer hardware, is to imagine how it will look in ten years' time, gathering dust under a card table in a thrift shop. And it probably will.
 * "My Obsession," Wired, issue 7.01. 1999.

 * I was born in 1948. I can't recall a world before television...Initially there was nothing on it but “snow,” and then the nightly advent of a targetlike device called “the test pattern,” which people actually gathered to watch. I imagine that the World Wide Web and its modest wonders are no more than the test pattern for whatever the twenty-first century will regard as its equivalent medium.
 * "The Net Is a Waste of Time," The New York Times Magazine, July 14, 1996.

 * In the age of wooden television in the South where I grew up, leisure involved sitting on screened porches, smoking cigarettes, drinking iced tea, engaging in conversation, and staring into space. It might also involve fishing. Sometimes the Web does remind me of fishing.
 * "The Net Is a Waste of Time," The New York Times Magazine, July 14, 1996.

 * “Surfing the Web” (as dubious a metaphor as “the information highway”) is, as a friend of mine has it, “like reading magazines with the pages stuck together.” My wife shakes her head in dismay as I patiently await the downloading of some Japanese Beatles fan's personal catalog of bootlegs. “But it’s from Japan!” She isn't moved. She goes out to enjoy the flowers in her garden.
 * "The Net Is a Waste of Time," The New York Times Magazine, July 14, 1996.

 * As new technologies search out and lace over every interstice in the net of global communication, we find ourselves with increasingly less excuse for...slack. And that, I would argue, is what the World Wide Web, the test pattern for whatever will become the dominant global medium, offers us. Today, in its clumsy, larval, curiously innocent way, it offers us the opportunity to waste time...It will probably evolve into something considerably less random, and less fun — we seem to have a knack for that — but in the meantime, in its gloriously unsorted Global Ham Television Postcard Universes phase, surfing the Web is a procrastinator's dream. And people who see you doing it might even imagine you're working.
 * "The Net Is a Waste of Time," The New York Times Magazine, July 14, 1996.

 * Maybe.
 * "Will We Have Computer Chips in Our Heads?" Time, June 19, 2000.

 * Rather than plug a piece of hardware into our gray matter, how much more elegant to extract some brain cells, plop them into a Petri dish, and graft on various sorts of gelatinous computing goo. Slug it all back into the skull and watch it run on blood sugar, the way a human brain's supposed to.
 * "Will We Have Computer Chips in Our Heads?" Time, June 19, 2000.

 * I thought of the Garage Kubrick when I went to Sundance for the first time and saw young filmmakers doing what young filmmakers apparently must do to get attention for their work — the public part of which seemed to involve shuffling in a tense sort of lemming-lockstep up and down the main drag of Park City, talking on two cell phones at once and looking near-fatally stressed. The private part, the deal-making part, I assumed (based on experiences of my own) would be worse. Or simply wouldn't happen.
 * "William Gibson's Filmless Festival," Wired, issue 7.10, 1999.

Misattributed

 * "Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes." — thought to be Gibson's words as a result of Twitter attribution decay, despite repeated disavowals.   . The source, according to Gibson, is Steven Winterburn  . However, Steven Winterburn is NOT the original creator of that quote. The original quote is the creation of Twitter account holder "@debihope"  . See research by quoteinvestigator.

title: William Gibson


text:
Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private and public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope that are linked by a broad array of electronic and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast array of information resources and services, most notably the inter-linked hypertext  documents of the  (WWW) and the infrastructure to support electronic mail.

Quotes

 * LO
 * First message transmitted via internet technology from UCLA to Stanford University (29 October 1969), the first two letters of "LOGIN", after which one system crashed, before the "G" could be sent, as reported in "Internet Began 35 Years Ago at UCLA with First Message Ever Sent Between Two Computers" (2 September 2004).

A

 * “Isn’t the internet wonderful?” she said. “Better than dragons any day.”
 * Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (2022), ISBN 978-0-7564-1483-2, p. 130

 * Caution: Do not mistake the Internet for an encyclopedia, and the search engine for a table of contents. The Internet is a sprawling databank that's about one-quarter wheat and three-quarters chaff.
 * The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law, (2007), Basic Books, p. 267.

B

 * The index of a search engine can be thought of as analogous to the stars in sky. What we see has never existed, as the light has traveled different distances to reach our eye. Similarly, Web pages referenced in an index were also explored at different dates and they may not exist any more.
 * Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, in Modern Information Retrieval (1999), Addison-Wesley/ACM Press, p. 382.

 * Twenty years ago no one could have imagined the effects the Internet would have: entire relationships flourish, friendships prosper...there's a vast new intimacy and accidental poetry, not to mention the weirdest porn. The entire human experience seems to unveil itself like the surface of a new planet.
 * J. G. Ballard in "Age of unreason" in The Guardian (22 June 2004).

 * Considering that the internet has greatly increased our access to unreliable information, and that bullshit still passes through more traditional channels such as newspapers, magazines, television, radio, and face-to-face conversations, it seems reasonable to suggest that people today are inundated with more bullshit now than ever before. The internet has ushered in the Age of Bullshit.
 * Nathaniel Barr,

 * Almost everything which you needed to know in your daily life was written down somewhere. And at the time, in the 1980s, it was almost certainly written down on a computer somewhere. It was very frustrating that people's effort in typing it in was not being used when, in fact, if it could only be tied together and made accessible, everything would be so much easier for everybody.
 * Tim Berners-Lee, "The creator of the World Wide Web, TIM BERNERS-LEE" "Fresh Air", NPR, (February 7, 1996); as quoted by Julian Ring “30 years ago, one decision altered the course of our connected world”, NPR, (April 30, 2023)

 * "The web setting out as something which was universal, something which anybody could use, I felt was very important," he said. "It's no good having something which will run on any platform if, in fact, there is a proprietary hold on it." Berners-Lee eventually convinced CERN to release the World Wide Web into the public domain without any patents or fees. He has since attributed the runaway success of the web to that single decision.
 * Tim Berners-Lee, "The creator of the World Wide Web, TIM BERNERS-LEE" "Fresh Air", NPR, (February 7, 1996); as quoted by Julian Ring “30 years ago, one decision altered the course of our connected world”, NPR, (April 30, 2023)

 * When you go out there, the webpages you see are written by people. You're looking at a certain sub-set of the churning mass of humanity out there. So it's not that the web itself is an animal, but it's that society is this really exciting, decentralized thing, and the web, fortunately, is more or less able to echo it.
 * Tim Berneres-Lee, “Talk of the Nation”, (September 1, 2002) as quoted by Julian Ring “30 years ago, one decision altered the course of our connected world”, NPR, (April 30, 2023)

 * DHCP was invented by a rabid gerbil on speed.
 * Kees J. Bot Minix DHCPD manpage.
 * We have too many cellphones. We've got too many Internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.
 * Ray Bradbury, LA Times (August 16, 2010).
 * Everything you put online is your professional face. ...whatever you want that to be.
 * , in an interview with Chris Oatley
 * I hear there's rumors on the internets that we're going to have a draft. We're not going to have a draft, period.
 * George W. Bush, 2nd Presidential Debate (8 October 2004).

C

 * There are some people who imagine that older adults don't know how to use the internet. My immediate reaction is, "I've got news for you, we invented it."
 * Vint Cerf, a "father of the internet," quoted at age 73 in "Your Life: Vinton Cerf" interview by David Frank in AARP Bulletin (December 2016, Vol. 57, No. 10, p. 30.)

 * Article 13 of the EU Copyright Directive Threatens the Internet
 * Vint Cerf et al. in a letter to the (12 June 2018)
 * The Internet is like a vault with a screen door on the back. I don't need hammers and bombs to get in when I can walk in through the door.
 * William R. Cheswick, quoted in ["Cracks in the net" by Joshua Quittner TIME (27 February 1995).

 * Only 12 years ago the networks were fragmented, today the Internet unites the world.
 * David D. Clark (December 1999)

 * Imagine being able to communicate at-will with 10 million people all over the world. Imagine having direct access to catalogs of hundreds of libraries as well as the most up-to-date news, busi-ness and weather reports. Imagine being able to get medical advice or gardening advice immediately from any number of experts. "This is not a dream. It's internet.
 * Neal Conan, NPR Morning Edition (4/30/1993) as quoted in Julian Ring “30 years ago, one decision altered the course of our connected world”, NPR, April 30, 2023

 * The utopian vision of an open, reliable, and secure global network has not been achieved and is unlikely ever to be realized. Today, the internet is less free, more fragmented, and less secure.
 * Council on Foreign Relations Confronting Reality in Cyberspace: Foreign Policy for a Fragmented Internet (Updated July 2022)

 * The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if God gets bored knowing the answer to everything.
 * Douglas Coupland, "Transience Is Now Permanence & the Fate of the Middle Classes (Doomed)", in The Edge Annual Question—2010: How Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?, January 2010.

D

 * NPR's coverage of the post-web era describes a "great online awakening" driven by an explosion in the number of internet-connected people. "The result is more chaos than you can imagine and literally thousands and thousands of websites," Rich Dean reported for NPR in 1996. By the end of 1995, more than 24 million people in the U.S. and Canada alone spent an average of 5 hours per week on the internet.
 * Rich Dean NPR, (1996) as quoted by Julian Ring “30 years ago, one decision altered the course of our connected world”, NPR, (April 30, 2023)

E

 * Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
 * Roger Ebert, "Critical Eye" column, , September 1998, p. 66.

 * Things have been going in the wrong direction -- more surveillance, more control of everything we do on the net and also stricter copyright laws -- that's the wrong course for Europe. We want to set a new one.
 * Christian Engstrom

 * High-speed internet has a positive impact on poverty reduction.
 * Better access to information increases farmers' effectiveness in agriculture. And fintech [financial technology] can make transactions more effective and less corrupt.
 * Olivier Vanden Eynde, as quoted by Padraig Belton, “The former homeless man bringing web access to the Bronx”, BBC, (15 January 2019).

F

 * The Internet, in particular, offers immense possibilities for encounter and solidarity, this is something truly good, a gift from God.
 * Pope Francis, as quoted in "Pope: The Internet is a 'gift from God.' But watch out for the trolls." at CNN (23 January 2014).

G

 * As customers embrace the Net for real business, they're doing something much more than posting a Web site, offering their brochure or 800 number on the Web. "E-Business" done well involves every process of their business -- from order entry to inventory, to fulfillment, to distribution, to customer care. Consequently, it challenges, and in some cases overturns, very established ways of doing business in financial services, in distribution, in almost every industry.
 * "Essential quotes", Ibm.com, (1998)

 * The main point here is that there will be lots of ways -- lots of low-cost ways -- for people to get on the Net and participate in this new economy. So, together we will have a greater opportunity to take unprecedented levels of service and information to the entire world regardless of an individual's social or political standing, or personal buying power.
 * "Essential quotes", Ibm.com, (1998)

 * Today, almost everyone is talking about the Internet as the ultimate medium of business. And so now we find ourselves in 1999 taking an equally unconventional position: Today it's clear to us that the greatest value being created by this networking technology is not in these new "dot-com" Internet companies that a lot of people seem to believe are going to redefine the world of retail, of Wall Street, of the media industry, and gobble up everyone's business. These are interesting companies, and maybe one or two of them will be profitable someday. But I think of them as fireflies before the storm all stirred up, throwing off sparks. But the storm that's arriving -- the real disturbance in the force -- is when the thousands and thousands of institutions that exist today seize the power of this global computing and communications infrastructure and use it to transform themselves. That's the real revolution. ...Right now, there's a lot of focus on e-commerce -- on Net-based buying and selling. But we think that equally important, if not more important, are the staggering investments our customers are starting to make in what we call "e-business." E-business includes e-commerce, of course. But it's about a broader set of transactions and important applications that will go to the Net in supply chain, in customer care, in e-service; and internally in applications from product development to logistics to employee training to knowledge management inside enterprises. In fact, our view is that the Web enabling of these core business process will deliver returns on investments that will equal or exceed the returns on investments coming from e-commerce.
 * "Essential quotes", Ibm.com, (1999)

 * The NET is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
 * William Gibson Title of an article for New York Times Magazine (14 July 1996).

 * The Internet has created a seismic disruption to the balance of power in the media. It is getting easier and easier to post your thoughts, photos, or videos. Yet the Wild West of the Web is being tamed. Small Internet service providers are being driven out of business, with corporations like Comcast, Time Warner, Verizon, and AT&T dominating the market. Privacy, security, and the freedom to publish without fear of censorship are dwindling with each merger, with each effort by corporate lobbyists to further restrict the open Internet in favor of a narrow profit advantage.
 * Amy Goodman The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope with Denis Moynihan (2012)

 * During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
 * Al Gore, in a statement often misquoted as "I invented the Internet." CNN Late Edition (9 March 1999).

 * In the next century, planet earth will don an electronic skin. It will use the Internet as a scaffold to support and transmit its sensations. This skin is already being stitched together. It consists of millions of embedded electronic measuring devices: thermostats, pressure gauges, pollution detectors, cameras, microphones, glucose sensors, EKGs, electroencephalographs. These will probe and monitor cities and endangered species, the atmosphere, our ships, highways and fleets of trucks, our conversations, our bodies — even our dreams.
 * Neil Gross in BusinessWeek

J

 * When education, banking and healthcare are online, and huge groups can't leverage these tools, the people who struggle most are struggling harder.
 * Marlin Jenkins, as quoted by Padraig Belton, “The former homeless man bringing web access to the Bronx”, BBC, (15 January 2019).

 * She was crying to her mother about not being able to finish her homework because she didn't have internet access at home, and the library was closed. I'll never forget the mother's face, she was distraught and it was heartbreaking.
 * Marlin Jenkins, as quoted by Padraig Belton, “The former homeless man bringing web access to the Bronx”, BBC, (15 January 2019).

 * People say, why don't you create a food platform, or something else tech-driven. But if you can't connect to the internet, it doesn't matter what else you can do
 * Marlin Jenkins, as quoted by Padraig Belton, “The former homeless man bringing web access to the Bronx”, BBC, (15 January 2019).

 * That's the beauty of the Web: You can roll around in a stranger's obsession without having to smell his or her house. You can amscray whenever you want without being rude.  The site gets its "hit" and you know more about our species' diversity.

"A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB AND THE INTERNET" (Oct 24, 2003)
Conrad Johnson and Brian Donnelly, "A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB AND THE INTERNET", , (Oct 24, 2003)
 * The origin of the Internet dates back to when, in the shadow of the former Soviet Union's  program the United States established the  (DARPA) within the Department of Defense. Four years later a Ph.D. student at, Leonard Kleinrock, published the first paper on  theory. With packet switching a message that is sent from one computer to another is broken down into small packets of digital data.
 * Conrad Johnson and Brian Donnelly, “A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB AND THE INTERNET“, Part 1, Columbia.edu, (Oct 24, 2003).

 * In Paul Baran of the  published, "On Distributed Communication Networks" in which he formulated the concept of packet-switching networks having no single outage point. With these theoretical concepts in place, others could develop workable concepts. Two additional key elements, re-routing around outages and access by other networks, helped lay the necessary groundwork to create the theoretical basis for the inception of an Internet. The underlying motive for developing this technology was to streamline communication between military command centers, remote missile bases and other installations in the event of a preemptive nuclear attack. DARPA funds for developing packet switching in the late  accounted for 60% of the computer research done in the United States at that time. Much of the concern during this period of the cold war was based upon a study done by the RAND Corporation that cited the lines of communication as the most vulnerable portion of U.S. military command.
 * Conrad Johnson and Brian Donnelly, “A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB AND THE INTERNET“, Part 1, Columbia.edu, (Oct 24, 2003).

 * In late, civilian contractors developed the network technology that grew into the Internet. The first network to use the packet switching technology was not actually built until , however, and it contained only four nodes. This network was used by the Department of Defense and was known as . The first ARPANET transmission occurred when Kleinrock logged on from a computer connected to a Stanford computer and typed the word "login." Although the system crashed as he typed in the "g" of "login," the Internet revolution was born. By 1973, a total of 37 nodes were in operation.
 * Conrad Johnson and Brian Donnelly, “A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB AND THE INTERNET “, Part 2, Columbia.edu, (Oct 24, 2003).

 * In, the adopted the use of TCP/IP protocols on ARAPANET, which by this time, consisted of more than 100 nodes. The military felt that separate resources were needed for research and military uses. Thus, MILNET was established for the exclusive use of the military while ARAPANET continued to be a tool dedicated to government related research. ARAPANET and MILNET became separate networks when the term "Internet" was expanded to include the academic and research computer networks that were emerging. The proliferation of the IBM compatible personal computer, which sold over 75 million machines in the early , provided an increasing number of researchers and scholars access to computer networks. Groups of universities within various regions of the country began to form networks, some with , to exchange  and other.
 * Conrad Johnson and Brian Donnelly, “A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB AND THE INTERNET “, Part 3 Columbia.edu, (Oct 24, 2003).

 * , and  were used primarily by people in universities or in technical industries, and along with other Internet applications were terminal based and not easy to use. During the early  there were a few attempts to go beyond the basic protocols and allow for a more user-friendly interaction with the Internet.
 * Conrad Johnson and Brian Donnelly, “A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB AND THE INTERNET “, Part 4, Columbia.edu, (Oct 24, 2003).

 * By, an estimated 50 million users were connected to the Internet worldwide. With the , the program came into existence with the goal of connecting millions of schools.  was founded in 1999 to set standards for , which was already blossoming. The business and media worlds were rocked in 2000 when  and  announced their merger, making the marriage of the media industry and  a reality.  In , during a strong period of innovation, the first cyber-age robbery occurred in Russia. The theft of millions of dollars from  showed the world the ramifications of the misuse of this new technology.
 * Conrad Johnson and Brian Donnelly, “A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB AND THE INTERNET “, Part 5, Columbia.edu, (Oct 24, 2003).

 * The commercial exploitation of the web has become a growing facet of the world economy, particularly in the last several years. In June 1999 NUA Internet Surveys estimated that 179 million people are connected to the Internet worldwide. A recent study by the sponsored by  estimated that the "Internet Economy" generated $300 billion in revenue in the United States alone.
 * Conrad Johnson and Brian Donnelly, “A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB AND THE INTERNET “, Part 6, Columbia.edu, (Oct 24, 2003).

K

 * When we sent that first message, there weren't any reporters, cameras, tape recorders or scribes to document that major event. ... We knew we were creating an important new technology that we expected would be of use to a segment of the population, but we had no idea how truly momentous an event it was.
 * , on the first use of internet technology, as quoted in "Internet Began 35 Years Ago at UCLA with First Message Ever Sent Between Two Computers" (2 September 2004).

 * What I wrote was that the internet and dreams share the same quality of giving rise to the repressed subconscious. I think in countries like Japan and America and other countries where internet is prevalent, people can anonymously seek or release things they can't speak of offline, as if there's a part of the subconscious that's uncontrollable and comes out on the internet. That is very much like dreams. This may be a very visualistic analogy, but I've always thought we drop down into dreams, and when you're sitting in front of your computer and connect to the internet, you're also going down into some kind of underworld. I've always thought those two images had something in common. I'm not trying to say that dreams and the internet are good or bad, I'm trying to saying that there's good and bad that cannot be judged in both worlds. Some people say that in the virtual world, different rules exist or try to say that a lot of vicious things happen there, but I don't think there's a reason to differentiate the virtual world from reality because reality includes that virtual world.
 * Satoshi Kon

 * Being a netizen in China is an interesting experience. You can learn a lot from what is posted—and even more from what [the] censors delete.
 * Kong Peizhi [pseudonym], A Censored Story of the “One Child Policy” Days: When Uyghurs Adopted Abandoned Han Children, Bitter Winter (June 14, 2023)

 * Most of us employ the Internet not to seek the best information, but rather to select information that confirms our prejudices.
 * Nicholas D. Kristof, "Would You Slap Your Father? If So, You’re a Liberal" in The New York Times (27 May 2009).

 * The real definition of Internet is: "lots of blogs and fat people trying to have sex with you."
 * Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka, speaking at the University of Illinois (2005)
 * The internet is like a big circus tent full of scary, boring creatures and pornography.
 * Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka, speaking at the University of Illinois

 * You should view Internet arguments as a really crummy fighting game: only the utter idiots bother pressing the "block / defend" button. While your enemy cowers in a corner with their arms raised above their face to futilely protect them, real men pull off complex 408-move combos that involve transforming into a fiery phoenix of doom and releasing unrelenting waves of liquid napalm Satan clown death upon them.
 * Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka, How to Win Any Argument On the Internet (2004)

L

 * The is a global system of interconnected computer networks that is used by billions of people worldwide. In the 1960s, a team of computer scientists working for the U.S. Defense Department's  (Advanced Research Projects Agency) built a communications network to connect the computers in the agency, called, the predecessor of the internet. It used a method of data transmission called "", developed by computer scientist and team member , based on prior work of other computer scientists. This technology was progressed in the 1970s by scientists  and , who developed the crucial communication protocols for the internet, the  (TCP) and the  (IP), according to computer scientist  in his book “Ideas That Created the Future: Classic Papers of Computer Science” (, 2021). For this, Kahn and Cerf are often credited as "inventors of the internet”.
 * Jessica Leggett and ,

 * For hundreds of millions of years, Sex was the most efficient method for propagating information of dubious provenance: the origins of all those snippets of junk DNA are lost in the sands of reproductive history. Move aside, Sex: the world-wide Web has usurped your role.
 * Seth Lloyd, "Move Aside, Sex", in The Edge Annual Question—2010: How Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?, January 2010.

M

 * I'll probably be the last to know, because I don't get on the internet no more.
 * Post Malone, "Internet", Hollywood's Bleeding (2019), Republic Records

 * When you picture the tech industry, you probably think of things that don’t exist in physical space, such as the apps and internet browser on your phone. But the infrastructure required to store all this information – the physical datacentres housed in business parks and city outskirts – consume massive amounts of energy. Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually. This is a hugely environmentally destructive side to the tech industry. While it has played a big role in reaching net zero, giving us smart meters and efficient solar, it’s critical that we turn the spotlight on its environmental footprint. Large language models such as ChatGPT are some of the most energy-guzzling technologies of all. Research suggests, for instance, that about 700,000 litres of water could have been used to cool the machines that trained ChatGPT-3 at Microsoft’s data facilities. It is hardly news that the tech bubble’s self-glorification has obscured the uglier sides of this industry, from its proclivity for tax avoidance to its invasion of privacy and exploitation of our attention span. The industry’s environmental impact is a key issue, yet the companies that produce such models have stayed remarkably quiet about the amount of energy they consume – probably because they don’t want to spark our concern.
 * Mariana Mazzucato, “The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates”, The Guardian, (30 May 2024)

 * The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that you and I believe, the almost equal access to your kids as your youth pastor and you have... whether you like it or not.
 * Josh McDowell
 * A year ago I was the original Internet Dummy. [...] Then while I was on vacation, a colleague ran some telephone wire into the back of my computer, loaded a communications package, and left me a note about how to launch the operation. Readers, that note is now framed in my office. Eventually that telephone wire led to the Internet and the single most amazing, entertaining and educational experience of my career. Quite simply, the Internet has revolutionized the way I interact with the outside world, altered my work habits, and burst the bubble around my PC. It has also challenged my thinking about the future of personal communications technology. And I believe that sooner — rather than later — these changes will be mapped onto society as a whole.
 * Paul McCloskey, executive editor of "Federal Computer Week", in the introduction to The Internet for Dummies (1993)

 * : I just can't imagine what life must have been like for granddad growing up without the net. It's like... How did kids meet and talk to complete strangers when he was young?
 * , The Boondocks (comic strip), (6/15/1999)

 * This is a little known fact technological about the Internet, but the Internet is actually made of words and enthusiasm.
 * , March 2007 speech to TED.

 * It's strange — you know, the Net is denounced as austere, the product of the engineering mentality, so forth and so on. It's the most feminine influence that Western civilization has ever allowed itself to fall under the spell of. The troubadors of the fourteenth century were as nothing compared to the boundary-dissolving, feminizing, permitting, nurturing nature of the Net. Maybe that's why there is an overwhelming male preference for it, in its early form, because that's where that was needed. But it is Sophia, it is wisdom, it is the penetrating archetypal female logos of the world-soul, leading us away from what was very sharp-edged and uncomfortable and repressive to our creativity and our sexuality and our relationships to each other and to the Earth.
 * Terence McKenna, speaking with –Technopagans at The End of History, recorded at Esalen in August 1998.
 * It's very sad how in the information age you cannot get information into people's heads — as long as you write something on the internet and do not add LOL — it is true : "I'm not sure he's a Christian." — I'm not sure he's a mammal, Jay. He could be a werewolf.
 * Bill Maher, on growth of rumors and reports of Barack Obama being a "secret Muslim", in an interview on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (13 September 2010).

 * I have a theory that the Internet makes people stupider — and also FOX News makes people stupider. You know the Pew group did a study recently and they found out that 10 years ago, Democrats, Republicans and independents basically got their news from the same sources, probably more from CNN, for example. Then we had this polarity. ... We do have two Americas. We have the America that's living in reality. The people who understand that Obama is a centrist liberal from Hawaii who is trying to dig us out of the hole we're in. And then we have this other FOX/Matt Drudge/Rush Limbaugh reality where he is a Muslim sleeper cell, Manchurian candidate who was sent over by his Kenyan father...
 * Bill Maher, interviewed on Larry King Live (14 September 2010).

 * Surrogates and also a pretty fascinating aspect the internet. Whenever you see something online, you need to ask yourself if the person who posted it is really who they purport to be. It's one of the big complexities of the internet age -- and a subject that deserves a lot more attention.
 * Jonathan Mostow
 * I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.
 * Bill Murray, Interview with Jessica Lee Jernigan (May 1999).

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 * When you go to the remote areas, that's where you have issues - network operators don't reach most of the communities.
 * Enock Seth Nyamador, as quoted by Padraig Belton, “The former homeless man bringing web access to the Bronx”, BBC, (15 January 2019).

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 * Even if you do go into a coma, you can still keep posting to Usenet — everyone else does.
 * Lance Olkovick,

 * For the record if someone did that to me I'd hitch a ride to the International Space Station straight away; of course who am I kidding, they would never let me in, I've got spiders for hands! Internet is mean!
 * John Oliver, "Last Week Tonight: Online Harassment, Last Week Tonight, (21 June 2015)

 * All the free stuff that you take for granted online is only free because you are the product.
 * John Oliver, Last Week Tonight: Data Brokers, Last Week Tonight, (April 10, 2022) as quoted by Guardian Staff ”John Oliver on online data brokers: ‘What they can buy is pretty troubling’”, The Guardian, (11, Apr 2022)

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 * The Internet has come to resemble an enormous used book store with volumes stacked on shelves and tables and overflowing onto the floor, and a continuous stream of new books being added helter-skelter to the piles.
 * Robert Pool, "Turning an info-glut into a library." Science 266, no. 5182 (1994): 20-22. doi:10.1126/science.7939636.

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 * There is nothing that is truly free nor democratic enough. Make no mistake, the internet did not come to save the world.
 * José Saramago, interview with "O Globo", July 2009.
 * I’m an open and vocal feminist on the internet, so I’m no stranger to some level of sexist backlash.
 * , "Full IGN interview with Anita Sarkeesian", Feminist Frequency.com, June 6, 2013.

 * I was attacked via nearly every facet of my online life by a loosely coordinated cyber mob. All of my social networks were flooded with a torrent of misogynist and racist slurs as well as threats of rape, violence and death. The wikipedia article about me was vandalized with similar sentiments.  When I publicly shared what was happening to me, the perpetrators responded by escalating their harassment campaign and attempting to DDoS my website and hack into my online accounts.  They also tried to collect and distribute my personal info including my home address and phone number.  They made pornographic images in my likeness being raped by video games characters which they distributed and sent to me over and over again. Attempts were made to discredit me and my project by creating and posting false quotes or fake tweets attributed to me. There was also a flash game developed where players were invited to “beat the bitch up”. Unfortunately I still receive threats and explicit images on a semi-regular basis. In December 2012, I gave a TEDxWomen talk where I discuss in more detail what happened, and how these large scale loosely organized Cyber Mob attacks operate.
 * , "Full IGN interview with Anita Sarkeesian", Feminist Frequency.com, June 6, 2013.

 * There's a boys'-locker-room feel to the internet, where men feel they can show off for one another. A lot of the harassment is tied to this toxic masculine culture of ‘Look how cool I can be.’
 * Anita Sarkeesian, as interviewed by Valenti, Jessica (August 29, 2015). "Anita Sarkeesian interview: 'The word "troll" feels too childish. This is abuse'". The Guardian. Archived from the original on August 29, 2015. Retrieved August 29, 2015.

 * We must filter the Internet to win over online file sharing. But politicians don’t understand that file sharing is bad, and this is a problem for us. Therefore, we must associate file sharing with child pornography. Because that’s something the politicians understand, and something they want to filter off the Internet.
 * Johan Schlüter

 * They can't ignore us, and they can't put us down. Thank God for the Internet, or we wouldn't know anything, and we would already be a fascist state.
 * Cindy Sheehan, media conference call (11 August 2005)

 * I yearned for that future. I wanted to live in the illusion that persuades us that true-life experience can be obtained on the Internet.
 * Lucius Shepard, Dog-Eared Paperback of My Life (2009), in Nick Gevers and Jay Lake (eds.), Other Earths (p. 239)

 * The net has provided a level playing field for criticism and comment – anyone and everyone is entitled to their opinion – and that is one of its greatest strengths.
 * Sara Sheridan. The Guardian (2011)

 * The members of the did not live to see the full flowering of the scientific method, and we will not live to see what use humanity makes of a medium for sharing that is cheap, instant, and global (both in the sense of 'comes from everyone' and 'goes everywhere.') We are, however, the people who are setting the earliest patterns for this medium. Our fate won't matter much, but the norms we set will. Given what we have today, the Internet could easily become Invisible High School, with a modicum of educational material in an ocean of narcissism and social obsessions. We could, however, also use it as an Invisible College, the communicative backbone of real intellectual and civic change.
 * Clay Shirky, "The Shock of Inclusion", in The Edge Annual Question—2010: How Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?, January 2010.
 * (The Springfield Police Department web page is shown.)
 * : If you have committed a crime and want to confess, click 'Yes'. Otherwise, click 'No'.
 * (Homer clicks 'No'.)
 * Chief Wiggum: You have chosen 'No', meaning you have committed a crime but don't want to confess. (A van symbol is shown.) A paddy wagon is now speeding to your home.
 * Homer: Hey!
 * Chief Wiggum: While you wait, why not buy a police cap or T-shirt? You have the right to remain fabulous!

 * Comic Book Guy: Ack. There is no "emoticon" to express what I am feeling right now.
 * The Simpsons/Season 12, The Computer Wore Menace Shoes written by John Swartzwelder

 * Caption to a cartoon by Peter Steiner, The New Yorker (5 July 1993) p. 61.
 * Some complain that e-mail is impersonal — that your contact with me, during the e-mail phase of our relationship, was mediated by wires and screens and cables. Some would say that's not as good as conversing face-to-face. And yet our seeing of things is always mediated by corneas, retinas, optic nerves, and some neural machinery that takes the information from the optic nerve and propagates it into our minds. So, is looking at words on a screen so very much inferior? I think not; at least then you are conscious of the distortions. Whereas, when you see someone with your eyes, you forget about the distortions and imagine you are experiencing them purely and immediately.
 * Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon.
 * Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon.

 * The Internet is a hole you pour your friends into for a never-ending stream of kitten photos and porn. Of course, that's quite a bargain, for some of us.
 * Richard Stevens III, through his comic Diesel Sweeties

 * And again, the Internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a.
 * Ted Stevens – Speech before the Senate on  (June 28, 2006).

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 * On the Internet, nobody can hear you fart.
 * Jonas Whitespore,.

 * 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.
 * Attributed to Robert Wilensky, speech at a 1996 conference

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 * Disregard the physical distance and cherish those online relationships. Tell your friends you love them every day. Behind each of these screens is a real heart that just wants as much love as the person sitting next to you in the real world. Love your neighbor, even if you're in Louisiana and he's in New Jersey.
 * D'Vazure, Nicholas 'eXcavator' Arts Obituary

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 * Today, you wander off the safe paths of the internet and it's like a trap. You know, you click on the wrong thing, suddenly fifty pop-ups come up, something says, hey, you've been infected with a virus, click here to fix it, which of course, if you do click on it, it does infect you with a virus, it's teeming with weird listicles and crazy things like, reason number four and how you can increase your sperm count or something, and you have to kind of constantly control yourself. You have to be on guard, it's worse than, it's a mixture of being in a bad neighborhood and a used car sales place and a casino and a infectious disease ward, all combined into one, and that is not relaxing.
 * Tim Wu, Who broke the Internet? with Tim Wu (2018)

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