Cyberspace: A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation. – William Gibson
Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. Were dreamers, you see, but were also realists, of a sort. – William Gibson
The Net is a waste of time, and thats exactly whats right about it. – William Gibson
Its impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. – William Gibson
Cutting through the acronyms and argot that littered the hearing testimony, the Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not, through the CDA, interrupt that conversation. – Stewart Dalzell, ruling on the constitutionality of the Communications Decency A