Digital Ephemera
Quotes, Wisdom and Folklore of the Digital Age
In 1958, stereo
was invented. Elvis was mono before that. Linda Jacobson
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable
from magic.Arthur C. Clarke
Electric speed may already have violated human scale, tending
as itdoes to transport man instantly everywhere. Marshall
McLuhan
To boldly go where no man has gone before. Star Trek Motto
Beam me up, Scotty. Star Trek
May the Force be with you! Star Wars
Buddy can you paradigm? Unknown
Pervasive low-technology is more radical than limited high-technology.Larry
Press
Speed is God, and time is the devil. David Hancock,
Hitachi
Trails are the calligraphy of human motion upon the land, describing
bothdesire and necessity, connecting both place to place and
past to present. Jim Byrkit
Stop for lunch and you are lunch. I think software engineers
now understandwhat it's like to be an options trader on Wall
Street. Paul Saffo
It's a new territory and the cyber equivalent of the Oklahoma
land rushis on. Andrew Grove
Emotional content is much more suited to linear media. Jeff
Braun
So we sit in front of our T.V.s channel-surfing, waiting
for the nextbig thing. Maybe it'll be the Internet, maybe virtual
reality... JohnH. Richardson
This is often the case in the growth of technology, its true
natureis more transparent in the initial stages, before a certain
sophisticationsets in and begins to rationalize the means of
production. TheodoreRoszak
Pixellated light makes its way from the screen through all
the usualcognitive channels and then some intellectual pilot
light flickers on.j. c. herz
People have ways of storing what's important to them. The
past is onlyavailable as fragments, thank God, so we have to
rebuild it every timewe want to enter it.
Peter Sellars
We are locked in a world we have created, a fictional world
shapedby narrative and subjective forms developed to generate
meaning and stabilizeour perceptions.
David Blair, creator of WAXWEB3D
movie (http://bug.village.virginia.edu)
Headlines are the haiku of our times.
Peter Koper
Give us the tools and we will finish the job. Winston
Churchill
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're
stilla rat. Lily Tomlin
The world's oldest screen for incompetence is the claim,
"I don'tunderstand it." Bo Gehring
All workable standards of wealth had vaporized, digitized,
and vanishedinto a nonstop hurricane of electronic thin air.
Bruce Sterling
Americans are used to using technology to be very emotional...For
mostof us, our first love affair was on the phone. Laurie
Anderson
A PC in every pot. Quincy Jones
He'd always rather enjoyed having his head at the mercy of
someoneelse's media system. Bruce Sterling, Heavy Weather
The people who make a difference are the ones who get bored.
BrianEno.
The world is wild at heart and weird on top. Lula in the
movieWildAt Heart.
Technological innovation creates psychological environments,
environmentsto which we subordinate ourselves without clearly
recognising the pricewe pay in doing so. Jonathan Miller,
McLuhan, p. 13.
Bless our all electric castle; let no errant fuse defile it.
ReinholdW. Herman
The high tech genie can never be put back in the bottle.
Paul Hoffman
If you stand still, sooner or later something will eat you.
JamesBurke
Biological evolution is a struggle among different plants
and animals,while individual human evolution is a struggle among
various talents. JamesBurke & Robert Ornstein The
Axemaker's Gift. NY:G.P.Putnam'sSons. 1995.
We know only that the human mind, like the universe itself, contains
theseeds of many worlds. Loren Eiseley
As complexity rises, precise statements lose meaning and
meaningfulstatements lose precision. Zadeh's Law of Incompatibility.
Daniel McNeill& Paul Freiberger, in Fuzzy Logic,
NY: Simon & Schuster,1993.
The library is a catalyst of expectation. Daniel Boorstein
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting
for our witsto grow sharper. Eden Phillpotts
Do not go where the path may lead, but go instead where there
is nopath and leave a trail. Unknown
It takes decades for people to exploit a new medium. We must
work hardto innovate, take risks, and do things that are truly
new. Like pioneers,we must be willing to get out there and take
a few arrows in the back,choke on trail dust, and hack around
until we discover what's new and differentabout the medium. Trip
Hawkins
As long as we place the emphasis on laws rather than on ethics
andas long as we're willing to use an old set of laws before
we've developeda new social contract for a new environment, our
freedom of expressionis threatened. Freedom of expression is
going to depend on responsibilityin use, and in the development
of a sense of social ethics about thesethings. John Perry
Barlow
If opportunity doesn't knock- build a door. Milton Berle
Our world becomes increasingly virtual, as its appearance
departs moreand more from depending on the structure of physical
reality. Movies andtelevision, moving signs, recorded music and
sound, the illusory continuitiesof broadcasting stations and
political parties, all these are virtual.Ted Nelson
In the knowledge society into which we are moving, individuals
arecentral. Knowledge is not impersonal, like money. Knowledge
does not residein a book, a databank, a software program; they
contain only information.Knowledge is always embodied in a person;
carried by a person; created,augmented, or improved by a person;
applied by a person; taught and passedon by a person; used or
misused by a person. The shift to the knowledgesociety therefore
puts the person in the center. In so doing, it raisesnew challenges,
new issues, new and quite unprecedented questions aboutthe knowledge
society's representative, the educated person. Peter Drucker
There are two things you need in life: you need good equipment
andyou need trouble. Ruth Gordon
A great many people think they are thinking when they are
merely rearrangingtheir prejudices. William James
Art & Artists
The artist is
the antennae of the race. Ezra Pound
The role of the artist now is to find a new way to organize material
sothat people can find out what the search is and what needs
to be explored.Tod Machover
Today's creative users are the inventors of the medium. Nicholas
Negroponte
Our art, and our aesthetic visions, serve to convey our truest
knowledgeof the world we live in, of our times, and of our hopes
for the future.Therefore, technology must be acknowledged as
a primary shaper of our contemporaryexperience, and as a fundamental
tool for the interpretation of our world.Tod Machover
I think electronic expression has come not to destroy the Western
artsand letters, but to fulfill them. Richard A. Lanham
It is individuals, the cyber-artists --- writers and poets ---
who benefitthe most dramatically from sharing their work in so
revolutionary a way.In the cyber-world, there are no agents to
send back your manuscript, noeditors to tell you your ideas aren't
really what they have in mind, noproducers to say your play can't
draw an audience. Everyone's stories havean equal shot, if not
equal weight. Everyone has an audience. In cyber-space,poets
always have audiences. Jon Katz
The only thing that holds a society together and keeps it alive
is thenotion that "tradition" and "innovation"
are not opposingideas. They represent the same idea. Artistic
and cultural traditions constantlyincorporate new material. People
use the music of Mozart and Beethovento establish a tradition
that does not change, when in fact, in the lifetimesof these
composers, they represented continuing changing responseto
a tradition. A tradition allows you a context in which to process
newinformation. Peter Sellars
For all the technology I've worked with, I'm really a Luddite.
If the finishedpiece doesn't sing in human terms, then it ain't
worth seeing. Bo Gehring
The thrill of technology lies in the fact that it represents
real democratizationof the arts. Bill Viola
Text-based real-time communication is living literature. Pavel
Curtis,founder of LambdaMOO
The technology at hand today is more interesting than technology
has everbeen. The things we can achieve with technology make
the present day themost exciting time to be alive in the history
of art. Peter Sellars
Give us art worthy of our lives. Bob Dole, July 30,
1996 speech to Hollywood producers.
Avatars
You're at a simulated
conference. You and everyone else at the conferenceare represented
by human-like "avatars" within an immersive virtualenvironment.
Later that day, your own personal avatar roams through a virtualshopping
mall and goes into the virtual stores where you like to shop
incyberspace. The avatar reflects your look, mood, and personality
(or perhapswhat you would prefer people to think are your look,
mood and personality).Robert Perrin
Your avatar can look any way you want it to, up to the limitationsof
your equipment. If you're ugly, you can make your avatar beautiful.If
you've just gotten out of bed, your avatar can still be wearing
beautifulclothes and professionally applied makeup. Neal Stephenson,
SnowCrash
Beam me up to my avatar. Hilary McLellan
Change
If you don't change
direction, you will probably end up where you are heading.Sara
Felder
In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever
that knowledgeis power. President John F. Kennedy
To be perfect is to change often. John Newman You must
be the changeyou want to see in the world. Gandhi
If you keep wanting to go backward, you have no future. Jennifer
James
Most of us prefer to walk backward into the future, a posture
which maybe uncomfortable but which at least allows us to keep
on looking at familiarthings as long as we can. Charles Handy
Chaos
Chaos is the state
between stagnation and progress. Margaret Monroe
Cinema
Cinema is a commercial
profession which utilizes tools that could havebeen used for
the creation of art. Josef Von Sternberg
A film begins as a perfect idea and from there you work down.
GeorgeLucas
Film started with pictures, then added words. The press started
withwords, then added pictures. Erik Barnouw
Computers
Computers in the
future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons. Popular Mechanics,forecasting
the relentless march of science, 1949
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. Thomas
Watson,chairman of IBM, 1943
But what...is it good for? Engineer at the Advanced Computing
SystemsDivision of IBM, commenting on the microchip, 1968
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
Ken Olson,president, chairman, and founder of Digital
Equipment Corp, 1977
"So we went to Atari and said. "Hey, we've got this
amazing thing,even built with some of your parts, and what do
you think about fundingus? Or we'll give it to you. We just want
to do it. Pay our salary, we'llcome work for you." And they
said, "No." So then we wentto Hewlett-Packard, and
they said,"Hey, we don't need you. You haven'tgot through
college yet." Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobson
attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak'spersonal
computer.
640K ought to be enough for anybody. Bill Gates, 1981
R2D2! You should know better than to trust a strange computer.
C3POin Star Wars
Culture
The avant garde
always ends up at Wal Mart sooner or later. AndreCodrescue
Well flame you, bozos. You're not cool. You're yesterday's news.
Like reactionarymuscleheads everywhere, all you geeks want is
to have things back the waythey were. Well, they're not going
back to the way they were. Not ever.So flame all you want. We
won't burn. And we won't go away, either. It'skind of Internice
around here. Gil Schwartz
You cannot have a good culture without bad taste. Jean Louis
Gassee
The Southern California lifestyle: Get born, lie on the beach,
die. JamesBurke
When Australian aborigines perform their rituals and dance
their creationmyths, they represent cultures that have evolved
continuously for over40,000 years. Their dance today directly
connects back to a time periodlong past. When they dance their
dances that celebrate the world's creation,they describe the
creation of the universe and evoke the energy of thecreation
of the universe. The energy of the creation of the universe isthe
energy that drives newborn life down the birth canal. It is the
energythat inspires you when you sit at your synthesizer keyboard
or your videoediting system. Bill Viola
We can't, any of us, escape the twentieth century. It's tucked
up aroundour collective chin as snugly and as firmly as the bedsheet.
DeniseShekerjian
Design
Design is choice.
The theory of the visual display of quantitative informationconsists
of principles that generate design options and that guide choicesamong
options. The principles should not be applied rigidly or in a
peevishspirit; they are not logically or mathematically certain;
and it is betterto violate any principle than to place graceless
or inelegant marks onpaper. Most principles of design should
be greeted with some scepticism,for word authority can dominate
our vision, and we may come to see onlythrough the lenses of
word authority rather than with our own eyes. Whatis to be sought
in designs for the display of information is the clearportrayal
of complexity. Not the complication of the simple; rather thetask
of the designer is to give visual access to the subtle and the
difficult--- that is, the revelation of the complex. Edward
Tufte
The difference between hacking code and hacking interface
was likethe difference between a soldier and a diplomat. Certain
crises would onlyyield to a political solution. Bruce Sterling,
Heavy Weather
Let us pursue perceptualization, rather than visualization.
In sodoing, we open up the possibility of building upon the skills
of musiciansand sound designers as well as those of visual artists.
Bill Buxton
What does a medium ask you to become in order to use it? Alan
Kay
The hardest part is the last four inches. Frederick Brooks
I suggest, however, that you work on a scale with which you
yourselfare comfortable. Otherwise, you run the risk of losing
touch with yourintuition, and intuition, in a case such as this,
is of crucial importance.William Gibson, Count Zero.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't
meanit's useless. Thomas Edison
The sweat and talent of tens of thousands of clever people had
vanishedinto a box you could hold in your hand and buy in a flea
market. BruceSterling
A toolmaker succeeds as, and only as, the users of his tool
succeedwith his aid. However shining the blade, however jeweled
the hilt, howeverperfect the heft, a sword is tested only by
cutting. that swordsmith issuccessful whose clients die of old
age. Frederick Brooks
Five hundred years ago, when sailing ships reigned supreme,
the exceptionallycreative Leonardo da Vinci sketched a crude
helicopter. Few people willever match Leonardo's level of creativity,
yet we too can use creativityto glimpse the distant future. More
dependably, we can use creativity tocreate solutions to real-life
problems that now confront us --- in ourpersonal lives, our business
lives, and as a global civilization. If welldesigned, these creative
solutions will steer us toward the future we desire. Richard
Fobes
The Future, Futurecasting,
Predicting the Future
The future has
arrived; it's just not evenly distributed. William Gibson
Prediction is particulary difficult particulary about the future.
NeilsBohr
People steeped in nostalgia cannot even remember the present,
let alonesense the future. Jennifer James
One thing we can predict: the greatest change will be the
change inknowledge --- in its form and content; in its meaning;
in its responsibility;and in what it means to be an educated
person. Peter Drucker
If we rise to the challenge of using technology to explore,
interpret,and communicate deeply reasoned thoughts about our
complex world, thenwe will open doors to experiences that we
cannot even imagine. Tod Machover
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the
past. ThomasJefferson
Information
Where is the wisdom
we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge wehave lost
in information? T.S. Elliot
The scarce resource in society is not going to be information.
We're alreadyflooded with information. the scarce resource is
going to be human attention,and that's going to be the new economics.
Richard A. Lanham
Information Highway
I imagine most
of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway.John
Updike
It will be the first time a roadway, a railway, an airway or
a phoneway has ever been built to a place for which we don't
know the destination. Jeffrery Katzenberg
The Internet
When two or more
computers are linked together to share files and electronic mail,
they form a network. Some individual networks consist of thousandsof
computers. The Internet is a network of thousands of networks,
linkingschools and universities, businesses, government agencies,
libraries, nonprofitorganizations and lillions of individuals.
As networks go, the Internetis dwarfed in size by the worldwide
telephone network, but because it linkscomputers instead of telephones,
it has vastly more power. Peter H.Lewis
The Internet has compressed the business cycle for the chip makers,
computerdevelopers, and software designers of Silicon Valley.
We are now livingon Internet time. Andrew Grove
The Internet is a frontier: unruly, impolite, and anarchic. But
also democratic.James Gleick
Something in the American psyche loves new frontiers. We hanker
after wide-openspaces; we like to explore; we like to make rules
instead of follow them.But in this age of political correctness
and other intrusions on our nationalcult of independence, it's
hard to find a place where you can go and beyourself without
worrying about the neighbors. There is such a place: cyberspace.Esther
Dyson
Knowing what's available and learning to find it at affordable
hourly ratesrequires some expert instruction, the continuing
advice of printed or on-lineguides and plenty of practice. Finding
what you didn't know existed, ordidn't know you wanted, has become
the Internet's most popular sport andwill beckon you to the still
more difficult challenge of manipulating thecontrols of other,
distant computers. Max Frankel
You can always get to there from here. Ted Nelson commenting
onthe Internet on Science Friday, Talk of the Nation,
March19, 1993.
The only thing Bob Dole doesn't like about the Internet is this
conceptof freeware; they're just another bunch of liberal giveaway
programs. BobDole
It is not a perfect world. There are cyberaddicts who never seem
to getoff-line. The pompous and combative can still run amok.
The techno-wizardsare impossible to keep up with, speaking their
own language in their ownworld. Many people find that no amount
of cyber-communication is as satisfying,meaningful or enduring
as personal contact. But the stories pouring overphone lines
all over the world all day long can haunt you. Jon Katz
The Internet is like a town that leaves its streets unmarked
on the principlethat people who don't already know don't belong.
James Gleick
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. P. Steiner,
1993 NewYorker Magazine cartoon.
The only normal people are those you don't know very well. Internetslogan
There are billions of dollars in search of the future, but it's
the presentthat ordinary users have to cope with. We're amateurs,
avowedly; and hereon the I-way, it is Amateur Hour. James
Gleick
Kids & Education
If I had a million
dollars, I'd invent a remote that could turn off myparents. Girl
on Nickelodeon Online
This is a generation that has been raised on MTV and a multitude
of stimuli.They don't think linearly; they think mosaically.
And they're much moreused to getting their information from talking
and listening than fromreading books. Laurence J. Kirshbaum
Any teacher who can be replaced by a computer, should be. The
AgingSage
Today kids are getting the opportunity to be street smart on
the Internet,where children are heard and not seen. Ironically,
reading and writingwill benefit. Children will read and write
on the Internet to communicate,not just to complete some abstract
and artificial exercise. What I am advocatingshould not be construed
as anti-intellectual or as a disdain for abstractreasonings ---
it is quite the opposite. The Internet provides a new mediumfor
reaching out to find knowledge and meaning. Nicholas Negroponte,in
Being Digital
When I watch children playing video games at home or in the
arcades,I am impressed with the energy and enthusiasm they devote
to the task.Mind you, these are not simple games. They can take
days or weeks to play;they require a large amount of knowledge,
exploration, and hypothesis testing.They require problem solving
- saving the current state of the game andtentatively exploring
novel states, then comparing the results, returningto the saved
state when necessary. They require study and debate amongfellow
players and the reading of hint books. They require reflection.In
other words, the games require just the behavior we wish these
samechildren would apply to schoolwork. What is the difference
between theseinformal experiences and the formal, structured
behavior or the classroom?There is something captivating about
informal learning. Why can't we getthe same devotion to school
lessons as people naturally apply to the thingsthat interest
them? Donald Norman
One cannot foresee the world in which the child we educate
will live.John Dewey
We can see the convergence of Nintendo and Sega and interactive
computergraphics and learning theory and pedagogy and developmental
psychologyand Gardner's work on multiple intelligences. All these
are coming togetherlike tributaries of a river. They aren't with
us, but but 1997, 1998, they'regoing to be here. James Ogilvy
Mistakes
Experience is
the name everyone gives their mistake. Oscar Wilde
Looking at mistakes as learning experiences and stepping-stones
helps youto see that failure is someone else's opnion of the
outcome of a situation.Failure is only the opportunity to begin
again...more intelligently. HenryFord
It is better to make new mistakes than to organize old ones to
a pointof general unconsciosness. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Truth comes out of error more easily than out of confusion. Francis
Bacon
Music & Audio
Audio is the Rodney
Dangerfield of technologies --- it gets no respect,it's an afterthought,
done at the last minute. Reasons to use audio include:to convey
a message to create a specific feeling Reasons not to use audio:sounds
bad not enought space on the the medium not enough bandwidth
notenough knowledge. Tom White, President, MIDI Manufacturers
Association
In music, context is everything. If I play you Brahm's Lullaby
on a musicalbox, you'll think, "Oh, what a beautiful baby,"
but if I bringin an ominous drone on the basses in the wrong
key, you're going to thinkthis baby grew up to be an ax murderer.
That's purely a question of context.Brahm's Lullaby hasn't changed,
it's just been thrown in a different light.So by juxtaposing
different musical elements, I can change the context.Thomas
Dolby
Music can be viewed from three very powerful and complementary
perspectives.It can be considered from the digital signal-processing
point of view -such as the very hard problems of sound separation
(like taking the noiseof a fallen Coke can out of a music recording).
It can be viewed from theperspective of musical cognition - how
we interpret the language of music,what constitutes appreciation,
and where does emotion come from? Finally,music can be treated
as artistic expression and narrative --- a story tobe told and
feelings to be aroused. All three are important in their ownright
and allow the musical domain to be the perfect intellectual landscapefor
moving gracefully between technology and expression, science
and art,private and public. Nicholas Negroponte
The deeper you go into yourself, the more you get out of
an instrument.Leon Parker, drummer with a minimalist drumkit.
March 19, 1995 MorningEdition, NPR.
Sometimes things can't be made visible. Enter sound: Sound can
provideinformation available in no other way. Sound can tell
us that things areworking properly or that they need maintenance
or repair. It can even saveus from accidents. Donald Norman
The Past
History has nothing
to do with reality. It is a point of view, an attemptto impose
order on events that are essentially chaotic. Jack McDevittin
The Engines Of God, p.195.
The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.
L.P.Hartley
The past is but a beginning of a beginning, and all that is and
has been, is but the twilight of the dawn. H.G. Wells
Progress
Progress is man's
ability to complicate simplicity. Thor Heyerdahl
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for
another nuisance.Havelock Ellis
Style
Style creates
special ways of knowing. Jim Carney
Always look cool. Always know where you are. If you can't
rememberwhere you are, at least try to look cool. Source unknown.
Television
The television
set has become a kind of myth-maker for children in ourculture;
the television set has become a substitute storyteller. RichardLewis
The minds that control TV are so small that you could put them
in a gnat'snavel with room left over for 2 caraway seeds and
an agent's heart. FredAllen
Television: chewing gum for the eyes. Frank Lloyd Wright
Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures
after thefirst six months. People will soon get tired of staring
at a plywood boxevery night. Darryl F. Zanuck, head of
20th Century-Fox, 1946
Television --- a medium. So called because if is neither rare
nor welldone. Ernie Kovacs
Television is the first truly democratic culture --- the first
cultureavailable to everybody and entirely governed by what the
people want. themost terrifying thing is what the people want.
Clive Barnes
Fifty seven channels and nothing on. Bruce Springstein
Virtual Agents
"Mirror,
mirror on the wall...who's the fairest of them all?"----
In Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs the wicked stepmother'smirror
was like a virtual agent, an interactive virtual companion.
By capturing and representing the capabilities of agents in the
form ofcharacter, we realize several benefits. First, this form
of representationmakes optimal use of our ability to make accurate
inferences about howa character is likely to think, decide, and
act on the basis of its externaltraits. this marvelous cognitive
shorthand is what makes plays and movieswork; its universality
is what makes the same play or story work for avariety of cultures
and individuals. With interface agents, users can employthe same
shorthand --- with the same likelihood of success --- to predict,and
therefore control, the actions of their agents. Second, the agent
ascharacter (whether humanoid, canine, cartoonish, or cybernetic)
invitesconversational interaction. This invokes another kind
of shorthand ---the ability to infer, co-create, and employ simple
communication conventions.Brenda Laurel
Virtual Communities
Virtual communities
are social aggregations that emerge from the Net whenenough people
carry on those public discussions long enough, with sufficienthuman
feeling, to form webs of personal relationships in cyberspace.
HowardRheingold
In cyberspace, we can talk, exchange ideas, and assume personae
of ourown creation. We have the opportunity to build new kinds
of communities,virtual communities, in which we participate with
people from all overthe world, people with whom we converse daily,
people with whom we mayhave fairly intimate relationships but
whom we may never physically meet.Sherry Turkle
We're a nation of cyberfreaks who communicate only through computers.
AnnTaylor Fleming
In the near future, explorers in cyberspace will need to get
better atdefining and identifying their communities. They will
need to put in place---- and accept --- their own local governments,
just as the owners ofexpensive real estate often prefer to have
their own security guards ratherthan call the police. But they
will rarely need help from any terrestrialgovernment. Esther
Dyson
People in virtual communities use words on screens to exchange
pleasantriesand argue, engage in intellectual discourse, conduct
commerce, exchangeknowledge, share emotional support, make plans,
brainstorm, gossip, feud,fall in love, find friends and lose
them, play games, flirt, create a littlehigh art and a lot of
idle talk. People in virtual communities do justabout everything
people do in real life, but we leave our bodies behind.You can't
kiss anybody and nobody can punch you in the nose, but a lotcan
happen within those boundaries. To the millions who have been
drawninto it, the richness and vitality of computer-linked cultures
is attractive,even addictive. Howard Rheingold
Virtual Realities
In the twilight
of the space age, cyberspace was becoming the new finalfrontier,
and virtual reality was te Enterprise. NASA's key role
in the development of the technology, right at the time of the
Challengerand Hubble humiliations, when the agency
no longer commanded theemblematic heights (or generous financial
backing) it had enjoyed duringthe 1960s, was heavily symbolic.
Like astronomical space, cyberspace was only dimly perceived
by ordinary people, but there was a promise that technologywould
one day provide them with access to it. Daytrips to the moon
havingproved unfeasable, attention was turning to mystery tours
of the digitaldomain. Benjamin Woolley
By sticking your hand out into space and seeing the hand's representationmove
in virtual space, then moving the virtual hand close to a virtualobject,
you are mapping the dimensions of the virtual world into your
internalperception-structuring system. Howard Rheingold
All worlds are a stage --- even virtual ones. George Coats
Virtual reality gives us access to a new place on the shores
of a newcontinent with a whole new genre of artists and creative
talent. AndyHolliday
In Virtual Reality the distinction between people with and without
disabilitiesdisappears. Ann Lasko-Harvill
Trying to trace the origins of the idea of virtual reality is
like trying to trace the source of a river. It is produced by
the accumulated flowof many streams of ideas, fed by many springs
of inspiration. BenjaminWoolley
The Vision Thing
Imagination is more important than knowledge. To raise new questions,
newpossibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires
creativeimagination and marks real advance in science. Albert
Einstein
When one door of happiness closes, another one opens. Often we
look solong at the closed door, that we do not see the one that
has been opened.Helen Keller
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has
genius, power,and magic in it. Begin it now. Goethe
The person who can see clearly is a person of power. Lenny
Liptonin Lipton On Filmmaking, NY: Simon & Schuster,
1979.
In the long run it is ideas and not men who rule the world. John
MaynardKeynes
The visionary is the only realist. Frederico Fellini at
the 1993Academy Awards.
Other people can't make you see with their eyes. At best they
can encourageyou to use your own. Aldous Huxley
Everyone who's ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the
person whogets out of the shower, dries off, and does something
about it who makesa difference. Nolan Bushnell, founder
of Atari Why do I get my bestideas in the shower? Albert Einstein
Good morning, Daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble
Of a dreamdeferred? Langston Hughes, Dream Boogie
The real voyage ofdiscovery consists not in seeking new landscapes,
but in having new eyes.Marcel Proust Nothing happens unless
first a dream. Carl SandbergIf one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams, and endeavorsto live the life
which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unimaginedin
the common hours. Robert DeNiro Teach us not to hesitate
atopcliffs, but to leap off into our own writing without wings
and teach us,with passion and love, how to buildwings on the
way down, hoping for asoft landing. Ray Bradbury
World Wide Web
I imagine that
the World Wide Web and its modest wonders are no more thanthe
test pattern for whatever the 21st century will regard as its
equivalentmedium. William Gibson
I'm against the World Wide Web. What we should have is an American
Web.Pat Buchanan
That's my whatchamacallit! Presidential candidate Bob Dole
describinghis campaign's home page.
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