Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts† A graphical representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity.Lines of light ranged inthenon- space of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.

-Gibson,William Ford
  Neuromancer. This is the first recorded use of the term 'cyberspace'.

Cyberspace is where you are when you're on the telephone.

-Gibson,William Ford
  In the US News &  World Report, 21  Jun.

Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society.

-Sterling, Bruce
  NationalAcademy of Sciences ConvocationonTechnology and Education,Washington DC,10 May.