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I'd always maintained that much of the anarchy and craziness of the early Internet had a lot to do with the fact that governments just hadn't realised it was there.
- William Gibson
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Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world. I think that our grandchildren will probably regard the distinction we make between what we call the real world and what they think of as simply the world as the quaintest and most incomprehensible thing about us.
- William Gibson
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The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.
- William Gibson
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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.
- William Gibson
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In the early '80s, I happened to find myself in the vicinity of people who would work for Microsoft five years later.
- William Gibson
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I would like to design what people generally call streetwear. I'd like to dress skateboarders, or whatever the older equivalent of skateboarders are. I pay more attention to that stuff than anyone would ever imagine because I'm watching what the designers do.
- William Gibson
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'Cyberspace' as a term is sort of over. It's over in the way that, after a certain time, people stopped using the suffix '-electro' to make things cool, because everything was electrical. 'Electro' was all over the early 20th century, and now it's gone. I think 'cyber' is sort of the same way.
- William Gibson
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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.
- William Gibson
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I was afraid to watch 'Blade Runner' in the theater because I was afraid the movie would be better than what I myself had been able to imagine. In a way, I was right to be afraid, because even the first few minutes were better.
- William Gibson
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I started with Apple, in a pre-Windows era when PCs seemed to involve more of a learning curve. But the fact that I'm yet to acquire so much as a single virus still seems a very good thing.
- William Gibson
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Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.
- William Gibson
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#Nation
#Technology
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
- William Gibson
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#Waste
I assume that - because you can get degrees in journalism from very reputable universities - I assume that people can be trained to be journalists. I've never been entirely certain that anyone can be trained to be a novelist in the same way.
- William Gibson
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Gadgets are usually the last thing I think about, and if there's something new, I'll get to the store for the final shipment of the first generation when it's on sale. So I have last year's stuff.
- William Gibson
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The history of the past, a hundred years from now, won't be the history of the past that we learned in school because much more will have been revealed, and adjectives we can't even imagine will have been brought to bear on what we did learn in school.
- William Gibson
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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.
- William Gibson
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#She
I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.
- William Gibson
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Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.
- William Gibson
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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.
- William Gibson
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Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.
- William Gibson
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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.
- William Gibson
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#Data
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#Light
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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.
- William Gibson
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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.
- William Gibson
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Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.
- William Gibson
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The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
- William Gibson
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Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
- William Gibson
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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.
- William Gibson
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#Live
#Technology
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