"That's one of my favorite things about Twitter:……" — William Gibson
"That's one of my favorite things about Twitter: You can tweak your feed into a fabulous novelty engine. That's only one thing you can do with it, but it's one of the things I find most entertaining about it."
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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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You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live…
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Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine.
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It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity…
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We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a…
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The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing.…
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Enthusiasm is the engine of success..
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What worries me though, is that after all those victories people don't see me as a human being anymore. I…
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In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on…
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