Help Me, My Aquatic Friends!

There's a nice quote by William Gibson that goes something like: "Every technology has two uses—what it says in the instruction manual and what people actually do with it." Except he says it better than that. I need to use it, or something like it, for a course catalog blurb, but I can't remember where it came from or how it goes exactly. (Googling has not yet revealed it. I eagerly await the search engines of the future, the ones that will let us enter queries like "what was that website, you know, with that guy, the one where he like, said some stuff, about that thing?")

Can anybody point me to that quote OR to any other similar quote by someone sort of hip and cyber-sexy? It can make the same point or the opposite point or something totally different, as long as it is about technology, especially communication technology, or social and technological networks, and what we do with them or how they change us. Ideally, it would come from someone with some cyber-geek-sci-fi cred like Gibson or Neal Stephenson or Bruce Sterling or Cory Doctorow or Douglas Rushkoff or Howard Rheingold or, hell, Steve Jobs or Bill Gates. (I don't think I'll bother providing URLs for Jobs or Gates.) Like I say, it's for a course catalog blurb, but the key is, it has to put geeks in seats. Think Sexy! Proactive! Synergy! In Your Face! Like Poochie, but Better!

My eternal gratitude and/or crazy loving, as desired, awaits you.

Edit: That was fast. mcroft, who I don't think I even know, got it in one: "The street finds its own uses for technology." There's yer power of social networking technology right there, true believers! Funny how far that was from what I thought I remembered. But I'm STILL canvassing the rest of you for more quotable quotes in this vein. Plenty of eternal gratitude and/or crazy loving to go around!!