William Gibson Quotes
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The prefix cyber is going the way of the prefix electro,
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We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.
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It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.
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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.…
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The future's here already. It's just unevenly distributed.
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Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description.
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Upon arriving in the capital-F Future, we discover it, invariably, to be the lower-case now.
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"Cyberspace is everting." It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state.
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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…
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Enlightenment is "being," and it grows; it's end is serenity.
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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…
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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…
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Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
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Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.
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The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
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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…
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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…
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It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.
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The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
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Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.
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