Quotes of William Gibson - somelinesforyou

“ The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it. ”

- William Gibson

“ Time moves in one direction, memory in another. ”

- William Gibson

“ The future is already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed. ”

- William Gibson

“ Time moves in one direction, memory in another. ”

- William Gibson

“ Time moves in one direction, memory in another. ”

- William Gibson

“ Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, just surrounded by a**holes. ”

- William Gibson

“ To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just the act of all good writing. ”

- William Gibson

“ Farber says (in my recollection, anyway) the European (or classical) art, including film, is culturally assumed to be a monumental slab. It's about that slab, and how it's been shaped, or what's been carved on it. In "termite art" though, your slab has been wormholed countless times, and its meaning is really taking place in the resulting interstices. The actual art of the piece, in other words, and your enjoyment of it, is taking place in the cracks, and the shape of the slab is coincidental and ultimately meaningless. ”

- William Gibson

“ Voodou isn’t like that. It isn’t concerned with notions of salvation and transcendence. What it’s about is getting things done. You follow me? In out system, there are many gods, spirits. Part of one big family, with all the virtues, all the vices. There’s a ritual tradition of communal manifestation, understand? Voodou says, there’s a God, sure, Gran Met, but He’s big, too big and too far away to worry Himself if your ass is poor, or you can’t get laid. Come on, man, you know how this works, it’s street religion, came out of dirt poor places a million years ago. Voodou’s like the street. Some duster chops out your sister, you don’t go camp on the Yakuza’s doorstep, do you? No way. You go to somebody, though, who can get the thing done. Right? ”

- William Gibson

“ We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition. ”

- William Gibson

“ Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting. ”

- William Gibson

“ The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience. ”

- William Gibson

“ Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. ”

- William Gibson

“ It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. ”

- William Gibson

“ Human DNA spreading out from gravity's steep well like an oilslick. ”

- William Gibson

“ Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. ”

- William Gibson

“ A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding. ”

- William Gibson

“ Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. ”

- William Gibson

“ Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. ”

- William Gibson

“ It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. ”

- William Gibson

“ The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. ”

- William Gibson

“ Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye. ”

- William Gibson

“ The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. ”

- William Gibson

“ The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. ”

- William Gibson

“ Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet? ”

- William Gibson

“ Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort. ”

- William Gibson

“ Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort. ”

- William Gibson

“ Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort. ”

- William Gibson

“ Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort. ”

- William Gibson

“ Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. ”

- William Gibson
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