"If you make something, it's an artifact. It's……" — William Gibson
"If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything."
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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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Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any…
— William S. Burroughs
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Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.
— Aldo Leopold
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Despite not knowing if what he felt from moment to moment would pass or last forever, he entered fully into…
— Diane Ackerman
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And I think this is the real epiphany: the ways in which culture is distributed become profoundly more intriguing as…
— Kenneth Goldsmith
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The book, that stubbornly unelectric artifact of pure typography, possesses resources conducive to the flourishing of the soul. A thoughtful…
— Douglas Groothuis
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Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization. Wilderness was never a homogenous…
— Aldo Leopold
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Grace, not willpower, is what ultimately empowers us to live loving lives. Creativity, both in what spawns within the artist…
— Ronald Rolheiser
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In Tetrad form, the artifact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of…
— Marshall McLuhan
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The dialectical or ecological approach asserts that creating the world is involved in our every act. It is impossible for…
— Wes Jackson
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SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy…
— M. John Harrison
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I know this is a major cultural artifact but it's bad for the community.
— Dante Alighieri
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Whoever declares another heretic is himself a devil. Whoever places a relic or artifact above justice, kindness, mercy, or truth…
— Sheri S. Tepper
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