"A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding."

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Source : 1984 Neuromancer. This is the first recorded use of the term 'cyberspace'.

William Gibson

#Data Quotes #Cities Quotes #Light Quotes

“I can't control what people say or anything like that. I have to focus on what I can control and that's what I'm going to do.”
“If you're gonna wait for the universe to start making sense, you have a long wait ahead of you.”
“Did people ever stop changing? They surprised you with fresh pain. Sometimes they surprised you with happiness, but the pain was the sharper surprise. There was no way to protect yourself from it. People could always change and always hurt you. Of course it went in the other direction too, you could hurt them when you didn't intend it and that too was out of your control.”

Source : Susan Minot (2010). “Evening”, p.195, Vintage
“Going from Flip to Kev, obviously you don't want to see someone ever lose their job. For me it's probably a little more difficult, because other than Bill Blair, Flip is all I knew.”
“Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.”
“It's so strange how my life's changed; I know nothing about the people that I touch.”
“Grace is so great an adornment for a rider, and at the same time so important a means to the knowledge of all that which is necessary for persons aspiring to become riders, that such persons should willingly sped the time required to obtain that quality at the outside of their endeavors.”
“If the ad is bad people get turned off. That's 125 million potential viewers, so you just killed reach. But there's also a big potential payoff. I think it does pay off because you get a lot of traffic, a lot of free public relations(in media stories). It helps position themselves for the next round of financing.”

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