William Gibson Quotes

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• The prefix cyber is going the way of the prefix electro,
• We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.
• It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.
• If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not.…
• The future's here already. It's just unevenly distributed.
• Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description.
• Upon arriving in the capital-F Future, we discover it, invariably, to be the lower-case now.
• "Cyberspace is everting." It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state.
• Our hardware is likely to turn into something like us a lot faster than we are likely to turn into something like our hardware...I very…
• Enlightenment is "being," and it grows; it's end is serenity.
• The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly and at great length. If not…
• He'd been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and numb at the cold sweating…
• Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
• Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.
• The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
• Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time…
• 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…
• It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.
• The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
• Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

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