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 Copy Share Image
We don't legislate emergent technologies into existence. We almost never do. They just emerge, dragged forth by Adam Smith's invisible hand. Then… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I was once really close to sitting down and having a conversation with a shadowy young woman who is reputed have become… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Maybe I've been a small part of the democratisation of celebrity, because I've been fascinated by it, and when it started to… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
All my life I've encountered people who were obsessed with one particular class of object or experience, who were constantly pursuing that… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I think I'd probably tell you that it's easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
One of the things I have taken for granted, in terms of how technology works in the world, is the people that… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I had a lot of issues with the genre, and I probably even had issues with the whole idea of genre. I… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I'm a really good eavesdropper. I listen to what people say and remember all the buzzwords. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I assume that - because you can get degrees in journalism from very reputable universities - I assume that people can be… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I think that one of the visions that is closest to reality is the cardboard city in the subway station in Tokyo,… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Twitter is the only brand of social media that I have ever taken to at all. I like the feeling of having… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others — William Gibson Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
