"I think the large part of the function……" — William Gibson
"I think the large part of the function of the Internet is it is archival. It's unreliable to the extent that word on the street is unreliable. It's no more unreliable than that. You can find the truth on the street if you work at it. I don't think of the Internet or the virtual as being inherently inferior to the so-called real."
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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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More Archival Quotes
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one of 9 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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This is a landmark work in the history of African American studies and American intellectual history. Writing with verve, Jackson…
— Unknown Author
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I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that…
— Cindy Sherman
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Admittedly, key archival documentation remains under lock and key and will be inaccessible for a long time to come. But…
— Unknown Author
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I was involved in the color correction and the digital color correction. In an odd way, you end up making…
— John Dykstra
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I listen to archival and historic recordings. I love watching singers. I learned a lot from watching videos.
— Renee Fleming
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As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David…
— Camille Paglia
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The initial research will be very indiscriminate. I do a lot of reading, buy a stack of books and read…
— John Jeremiah Sullivan
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T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time…
— Betty Buckley
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