William Gibson Quotes
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~ William Gibson Quote
The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
~ William Gibson Quote
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts...
~ William Gibson Quote
I've had a growing frustration, particularly when I would go out and do book tours and interviews. I got frustrated with people asking me, "How do you know what the future is going to be like?" And I'd always say, "I don't."
~ William Gibson Quote
He's probably doing a good job. I don't have anything against him. Just something happened.
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It just shows how one person can turn around and exceed his authority and make somebody else's life a living hell.
~ William Gibson Quote
It seems as though the Net itself has become conscious,
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Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
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The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
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Cyberspace was a consensual hallucination that felt and looked like a physical space but actually was a computer-generated construct representing abstract data.
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The street finds its own uses for things.
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Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.
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Ronnie Earle didn't indict him. The grand jury indicted him.
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Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?
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That's a bunch of [expletive] there. That man did not talk to me.
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It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.
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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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I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.
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For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.
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And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.
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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.
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When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written. '1984' is really about 1948. It can't really be understood outside the historical context of 1948.
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Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.
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I feel the time is right for me to relinquish the reins. It has become increasingly obvious to me that we are meeting and surpassing all the goals we had in mind when we took the company public in 1993.
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Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.
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We were presented with enough evidence for an indictment to be issued,
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The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.
~ William Gibson Quote
The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.
~ William Gibson Quote
I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.
~ William Gibson Quote
