"Language is to the mind more than light…" — William Gibson

"Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye."

— William Gibson

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125 Quotes by William Gibson

William Gibson has 125 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The prefix cyber is going the way of the prefix electro,
We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.
It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.
If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think…
The future's here already. It's just unevenly distributed.
Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description.
Upon arriving in the capital-F Future, we discover it, invariably, to be the lower-case now.
"Cyberspace is everting." It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state.
Our hardware is likely to turn into something like us a lot faster than we are likely to turn into…
Enlightenment is "being," and it grows; it's end is serenity.
The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly and…
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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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to… — Aristotle
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and… — Neil Armstrong
Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn! — Victoria Abril
Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and,… — Rowan Atkinson
Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone… — David Attenborough
Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like… — David Attenborough
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. — Margaret Atwood
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other… — Wystan Hugh Auden
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the… — Saint Augustine
I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone. — Richard Avedon
My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He… — Teresa of Avila

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