"Addictions [...] started out like magical pets, pocket……" — William Gibson
"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 gradual dire alchemy, to make decisions for you. Eventually, they were making your most crucial life-decisions. And they were [...] less intelligent than goldfish."
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125 Quotes by William Gibson
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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More Addiction Quotes
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A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The end of my addiction to fame happened at the exact moment 'Roseanne' dropped out of the top ten, in…
— Roseanne Barr
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Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.
— Drew Barrymore
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Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little…
— Bruce Barton
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
— Allan Bloom
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
— Lara Flynn Boyle
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It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part…
— Russell Brand
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