The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
"Cyberspace is everting." It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I'd always maintained that much of the anarchy and craziness of the early Internet had a lot to do with the fact… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The thing that 'Neuromancer' predicts as being actually like the Internet isn't actually like the Internet at all! — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.” — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The Internet is part of this ongoing, species-long project we've been working on since we climbed down out of the trees in… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
All I knew about the word cyberspace when I coined it, was that it seemed like an effective buzzword. It seemed evocative… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I think the large part of the function of the Internet is it is archival. It's unreliable to the extent that word… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Magazines in the traditional sense were aggregators of novelty. A good magazine was a lot of novelty, stuff you've never heard of… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“It is a way now, approximately, of being at home. The forum has become one of the most consistent places of her… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“We have no idea, now, of who or what the inhabitants of our future might be. In that sense, we have no future. Not… — William Gibson Copy Share
For me, the melancholy of the late XXth Century is walking late at night by the Mont Blanc pen store and seeing these things… — William Gibson Copy Share
“No," said Blackwell, "she won't, because that would be a violation of the very personal terms I will have established in our conversation. That's… — William Gibson Copy Share
“Music was strange that way though; there were people into any damned thing, it seemed like, and if you got enough of them together… — William Gibson Copy Share
When I start writing a new imaginary future, I have no idea what it is. The characters arrive first. They help me figure out… — William Gibson Copy Share
Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting with the… — William Gibson Copy Share
Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others — William Gibson Copy Share
I don't generate a storyline and then fill it out in the course of writing. The story actually generates in the course of the… — William Gibson Copy Share
“What happened to your arm?" she asked me one night in the Gentleman Loser, the three of us drinking at a small table in… — William Gibson Copy Share
“In Heathrow a vast chunk of memory detached itself from a blank bowl of airport sky and fell on him. He vomited into a… — William Gibson Copy Share
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were… — William Gibson Copy Share
[When] Johnny Mnemonic was coming out and I realized that all the kids that worked in 7-11 knew more - or thought they knew… — William Gibson Copy Share
“Andrea maintained that men like Alain lied so constantly, so passionately, that some basic distinction had been lost. They were artists in their own… — William Gibson Copy Share
“Because he had a good agent, he had a good contract. Because he had a good contract, he was in Singapore an hour after… — William Gibson Copy Share
