In the early '80s, I happened to find myself in the vicinity of people who would work for Microsoft five years later. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Gadgets are usually the last thing I think about, and if there's something new, I'll get to the store for the final… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I probably had something to do with being southern. For some reason, over the last few years I've been much more conscious… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I watch a sort of primitive form of the recommodification machine around my friends and myself in sixties, and it took about… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
When did it become necessary to explain what's so cool about Japan? Everyone was quite obsessed with it 15 years ago. I… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The history of the past, a hundred years from now, won't be the history of the past that we learned in school… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
You can get in a cab in Vancouver and the 20-year-old driver speaks more knowingly of Michael Ovitz than anyone in the… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
If I write something set 60 years in the future, I am going to have to explain how humanity got there, and… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
He'd been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and numb at… — 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
