All William Gibson Quotes
- That's something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applications turn up on a battlefield, or in a gallery. Application
- When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the… Began
- I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be,… Buried
- She knows, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that Damien's theory of jet lag is correct: that her mortal soul is leagues… Absolutely
- There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of… Beyond
- His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol. Clear
- We monitor many frequencies. We listen always. Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty dub. Always Came
- You needed a new pancreas. The one we bought for you frees you from a dangerous dependency.” “Thanks, but I was enjoying that dependency. Bought
- Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others Conventionally
- Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky. Amid
- Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television. American
- Somewhere, deep within her, surfaces a tiny clockwork submarine. There are times when you can only take the next step. And then another. Clockwork
- Things aren't different. Things are things. Different Things
- The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. Fiction
- Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones. Belonged
- The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be. Future
- Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes. Assholes
- The future is already upon us, it is just unevenly distributed. Already Upon
- You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work. Appropriate
- In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote… Century
- I try to be objective about technology. Agnostic, in a sense. Whatever personal opinions I form tend to have more to do with what we… Agnostic
- I think that our future has lost that capital F we used to spell it with. The science fiction future of my childhood has had… America
- When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing. Direction
- I read a great deal of science fiction with consummate pleasure between, say, the ages of 12 and 16. Then I got away from it.… Ages
- The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. Distributed