All William Gibson Quotes
- I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there on… Appalachia
- I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or… Anonymously
- I like the idea of people who've had some success in one form secretly wanting to be something else; I have some of that myself.… Art
- I think the large part of the function of the Internet is it is archival. It's unreliable to the extent that word on the street… Archival
- I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is really, really poor!… Accurately
- I very seldom compose anything in my head which later finds its way into text, except character names sometimes - I'm often very much inspired… Character
- I was afraid to watch 'Blade Runner' in the theater because I was afraid the movie would be better than what I myself had been… Able
- I watch for emergent technologies and pay attention to what people say they'll be good for, then see what we actually use them for. It… Actually Use
- I would like to design what people generally call streetwear. I'd like to dress skateboarders, or whatever the older equivalent of skateboarders are. I pay… Anyone
- I'd always maintained that much of the anarchy and craziness of the early Internet had a lot to do with the fact that governments just… Always Maintained
- I'm often saddened and dismayed to see myself portrayed as either a Luddite or as a raving technophile. I've always thought that my job was… Always Thought
- I'm quite good friends with the putative director, Vincenzo Natali, and I'm a big fan of his work, but beyond that, I don't like to… Beyond
- I'm quite proud of what I anticipated about reality television from my books in the early '90s, which I based on the early seasons of… Amazing
- I've become convinced that nostalgia is a fundamentally unhealthy modality. When you see it, it's usually attached to something else that's really, seriously bad. I… Attached
- If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human… Artifact
- My dream scenario would be that you could go into a bookshop, examine copies of every book in print that they're able to offer, then… Able
- Occasionally if I look back at something I've written I'll find one of those that I don't understand, but that's a bad thing - the… Bad
- That's one of my favorite things about Twitter: You can tweak your feed into a fabulous novelty engine. That's only one thing you can do… Engine
- The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should really be considered. We have this industry in which we… Amount
- The Internet is part of this ongoing, species-long project we've been working on since we climbed down out of the trees in the savanna. We've… Been
- The street finds its own uses for things. Finds
- Stand high long enough and your lightning will come. High
- Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm. Camden
- I think I'd probably tell you that it's easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is… Accept
- 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 vice-president,… Bohemian