William Gibson quotes

William Gibson is an American-Canadian science fiction author, widely recognized for pioneering the cyberpunk genre. His novel "Neuromancer" introduced concepts like cyberspace and greatly influenced popular culture and technology. He continues to inspire writers, artists, and technologists around the world. Here are 194 of his quotes:

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet. (William Gibson)
Time moves in one direction, memory in another. View quote
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The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it. View quote
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Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. View quote
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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station. View quote
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The street finds its own uses for things. View quote
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And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human. View quote
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Things aren't different. Things are things. View quote
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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. View quote
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His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines. View quote
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The future is not google-able. (William Gibson)
Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking. View quote
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This perpetual toggling between nothing being new, under the sun, and everything having very recently changed, absolutely, is perhaps the central driving tension of my work. View quote
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I try to be objective about technology. Agnostic, in a sense. View quote
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I think of religions as franchise operations. Like chicken franchise operations. But that doesn't mean there's no chicken, right? View quote
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Hell of a world we live in, huh? (...) But it could be worse, huh?" "That's right," I said, "or even worse, it could be perfect. View quote
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Drugs were absolutely central to that experience, but they weren't essential. I only know that in retrospect. At the time I'm sure I would have said that they were. View quote
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It had much more to do with my wanting to be with hippy girls and have lots of hashish than it did with my sympathy for the plight of the North Vietnamese people under US imperialism. Much more, much more to do with hippy girls and hashish. View quote
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We no longer grow the full beef of bohemia, It's all veal now. View quote
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As new technologies search out and lace over every interstice in the net of global communication, we find ourselves with increasingly less excuse for...slack. And that, I would argue, is what the World Wide Web, the test pattern for whatever will become the dominant global medium, offers us. Today, in its clumsy, larval, curiously innocent way, it offers us the opportunity to waste time...It will probably evolve into something considerably less random, and less fun - we seem to have a knack for that - but in the meantime, in its gloriously unsorted Global Ham Television Postcard Universes phase, surfing the Web is a procrastinator's dream. And people who see you doing it might even imagine you're working. View quote
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When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart. (William Gibson)
I think I'd probably tell you that it's easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is to accept the love and loyalty of the people closest to us. View quote
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Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes. View quote
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One of the liberating effects of science fiction when I was a teenager was precisely its ability to tune me into all sorts of strange data and make me realize that I wasn't as totally isolated in perceiving the world as being monstrous and crazy. View quote
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We see in order to move; we move in order to see. View quote
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William Gibson

William Gibson - Image
Photo: Gonzo Bonzo, CC BY-SA 2.0
Occupation: American-Canadian Writer
Born: March 17, 1948
Quotes count: 194
Wikipedia: William Gibson

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