"I don't have to write about the future.……" — William Gibson
"I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary."
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125 Quotes by William Gibson
William Gibson has 125 quotes on this site.
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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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Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
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I hadn't realized until this week that in [Moses'] youth he killed a man, an Egyptian, and buried him under…
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When was the last time you wanted to say it all to the right person To have it all come…
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Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Day by day, and…
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Everything, if you could only see it clearly enough, like this, is beautiful and complete. Everything has its own perfection.
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The thing that sets Mars apart is that it is the one planet that is enough like Earth that you…
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I am apt to be harsh in my secret judgments of others, seeing them as defective because they are not…
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Our heavenly bodies are going to be similar to our present ones, only better. We'll look enough like we do…
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We're going to be surprised when we discover that things in Heaven are normal and natural, much like this life.…
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We'll look enough like we do now to recognise each other, identify each other and know each other!
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We need more bodies, 'cause it's not looking enough like the last scene in Hamlet already. --Chopper Jim Chopin
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