William Gibson Quotes

The future has already arrived. It's just not even... -William Gibson

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly wh... -William Gibson

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

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This quote humorously suggests that the Internet can be a time-consuming distraction, highlighting its allure despite its potential drawbacks. It implies a lighthearted view of the Internet's role in leisure and entertainment. It reflects on the appeal of online activities.

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.

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.

I didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often been triumphalist and militaristic, a sort of folk propaganda for American exceptionalism.

I've never really been very interested in computers themselves. I don't watch them; I watch how people behave around them. That's becoming more difficult to do because everything is around them.

I'm interested in how people all over the world array themselves and go forth in the morning to do whatever they have to do to make a living.

A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged.

If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything.

The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boun... -William Gibson

The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

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