"I watch for emergent technologies and pay attention……" — William Gibson
"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 never occurred to me that a tiny telephone with a wireless transceiver would do whatever it is that it's done to us."
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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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