William Gibson

The 'Net is a waste of time.

— William Gibson

Tim Powers is a brilliant writer.

— William Gibson

The future is not Google-able.

— William Gibson

“Boy, I was daid.”

— William Gibson

“It worked okay.”

— William Gibson

My problem is that all things are increasingly interesting to me

— William Gibson

“Fables from before the Anaheiming.”

— William Gibson

Enlightenment is "being," and it grows; it's end is serenity.

— William Gibson

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description.

— William Gibson

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

— William Gibson

“abs you could do laundry on, the”

— William Gibson

I'm always interested in the spooky repurposing of everyday things.

— William Gibson

“Maelcum a rude boy," said the other, "an' a righteous tug pilot.”

— William Gibson

Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.

— William Gibson

Friday, August 04, 2006 MONUMENT posted 8:31 AM Silver nitrous girls pointed into occult winds of porn and destiny.

— William Gibson

I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.

— William Gibson

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.

— William Gibson

I only go to Japan when there's someone who can afford to bring me there, and consequently I may never go again!

— William Gibson

I've never actually been a collector. I like the learning-curve, but I buy things, sell them to finance other things.

— William Gibson

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

— William Gibson

I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.

— William Gibson

If there's a movie of Neuromancer, what I really want the special effects guys to do is make you see, from Case's…

— William Gibson

If I were in severely straitened socio-economic circumstances and had to move to the U.S., I'd probably opt for Athens, GA, or…

— William Gibson

When I was first writing about Japan, it was at the peak of the Bubble. Bubble popped, but they kept on going.…

— William Gibson

“You're from the future, Mr Netherton?" "Not exactly," he said. "I'm in the future that would result from my not being here.…

— William Gibson

The nature of emergent technology is, as Kevin Kelly once said, right out of control. It's an element of human evolution that's…

— William Gibson

I feel like I've been very fortunate in that I've stuck like a burr to the dog-leg of the next generation of…

— William Gibson

To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths.…

— William Gibson

“burgeoning technologies require outlaw zones, that Night City wasn’t there for its inhabitants, but as a deliberately unsupervised playground for technology itself.”

— William Gibson

I have always been intensely uncomfortable with the idea of a science fiction writer as prophet. Not that there haven't been science…

— William Gibson

“Pretty soon the crash would come on, and before then she’d have to figure out a way to get back to the…

— William Gibson

I think that our future has lost that capital F we used to spell it with. The science fiction future of my…

— William Gibson

I've gone to big stadium rock concerts at some artist's invitation, and there's this invariable, fascinating and rather sad situation of concentric…

— William Gibson

“There is always a point at which the terrorist ceases to manipulate the media gestalt. A point at which the violence may…

— William Gibson

“Case shuffled into the nearest door and watched the other passengers as he rode. A pair of predatory-looking Christian Scientists were edging…

— William Gibson

When I start writing a new imaginary future, I have no idea what it is. The characters arrive first. They help me…

— William Gibson

I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw…

— William Gibson

There's violence in my culture [from America's South].

— William Gibson

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination.

— William Gibson

I wanted to make room for antiheroes.

— William Gibson