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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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“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
“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
