All William Gibson Quotes
- The deadliest bullshit is odorless, and transparent. Bullshit
- Time is money, but also money is money. Funny
- The present tense made him nervous. Him
- She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it. Beach
- You know what your trouble is? You're the kind who always reads the handbook. Anything people build, any kind of technology, it's going to have… All
- Friday, August 04, 2006 MONUMENT posted 8:31 AM Silver nitrous girls pointed into occult winds of porn and destiny. August
- One of the liberating effects of science fiction when I was a teenager was precisely its ability to tune me into all sorts of strange… Ability
- To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just the… Act
- His smile was the nightmare in my back pocket.(Speaking about Ronald Reagan) Back Pocket
- His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest… Crystal
- All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and still he'd see the matrix in… Across
- The future is there," Cayce hears herself say, "looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. And from… All
- Home. Home was BAMA, the Sprawl, the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis. Program a map to display frequency of data exchange, every thousand megabytes a single pixel… Atlanta
- Damien is a friend. Their boy-girl Lego doesn't click, he would say. Boy
- He took a duck in the face at 250 knots. Duck
- Laney had recently noticed that the only people who had titles that clearly described their jobs had jobs he wouldn't have wanted. Clearly
- It was hot, the night we burned Chrome. Burned
- Three in the morning. Making yourself a cup of coffee in the dark, using a flashlight when you pour the boiling water. Boiling
- We see in order to move; we move in order to see. Clarity
- A nation,” he heard himself say, “consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual’s… Consist
- We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition. Future
- When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart. Advice
- Secrets...are the very root of cool. Cool
- Addictions [...] started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn't seen, were fun. But came, through some… Addiction
- If you’re fifteen or so, today, I suspect that you inhabit a sort of endless digital Now, a state of atemporality enabled by our increasingly… Anthropologists