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Technology Quotes by William Gibson
- Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.
- 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.
- I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become…
- As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically induced social change.…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- That's something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applications turn up on a battlefield, or in a gallery.
- 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…
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- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
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- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. — Isaac Asimov
- All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are… — Isaac Asimov
- Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow. — Margaret Atwood
- People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make. — Margaret Atwood