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“The future's here, we are it, we are on our own”
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“TV in America created the most coherent reality distortion field that I’ve ever seen. Therein is the problem: People who vote watch TV, and they are hallucinating like a sonofabitch. Basically, what we have in this country is government by hallucinating mob.”
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“the first responsibility of a human
being is to be a better ancestor.”
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being is to be a better ancestor.”
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“We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.”
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“information is simultaneously a relationship,
an action, and an area of shared mind. What it isn't is a noun.
Information is not a thing. It isn't an object. It isn't something that,
when you sell it or have it stolen, ceases to remain in your possession. It
doesn't have a market value that can be objectively determined.”
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an action, and an area of shared mind. What it isn't is a noun.
Information is not a thing. It isn't an object. It isn't something that,
when you sell it or have it stolen, ceases to remain in your possession. It
doesn't have a market value that can be objectively determined.”
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“This is so much better than the 60's. So much less self indulgent and desperate. What you have here is a large group of people trying to practice unconditional love for strangers, and for the most part, succeeding.”
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“We are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire.”
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“Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age.”
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“I may be going to hell in a bucket Babe, at least I'm enjoying the ride.”
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“One may as well be optimistic. The road to catastrophe will be rougher if it's paved with dread.”
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“Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there is no matter here.”
― A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
― A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
“Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.”
― A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
― A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
