Neuromancer Case Quotes

#1. From any vocabulary of ideas we can build other ideas by formal combinations of signs. But not any set of ideas will be instructive. One must have the right ideas.

Ian Hacking

#2. I've heard one or two riders refer to the odd night out as 'morale training'. It's a good expression for it. It's got the word 'training' in it, so it's got to be a good idea.

Michael Hutchinson

#3. I would be the first to admit that I drew attention to my chest since, being so short, I need to give people a reason to look down far enough to see me.

Meredith Schorr

#4. I count myself as one of the number of those who learn as they write and write as they learn.

John Piper

#5. The difference between good and evil men is not found in the acts they are willing to commit - but merely in what name they are willing to commit them in.

Brandon Sanderson

#6. If there's a movie of Neuromancer, what I really want the special effects guys to do is make you see, from Case's point of view, the little acid giggies: the little lines and trails coming off of things.

William Gibson

#7. I tend to move between turtlenecks and shirts and ties. I don't really have a uniform in the sense that some people might.

Norman Foster

#8. A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.

Jose Saramago

#9. With a stage play, they can't cut a word; you can be in rehearsals every day, you cast it, you cast the director, too; the amount of control for a playwright is almost infinite, so you have that control over the finished product.

Martin McDonagh

#10. Every part of the country has its story to tell, so I'm always looking for the next place to be.

Tracie Peterson

#11. When I think about athletes, probably my favorite guest of all time among baseball players was Ted Williams.

Charlie Rose

#12. Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should be, and I willingly change the reproach into a eulogy.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#13. By the time I was writing the second book, my life had changed rather dramatically, thanks to the intervention of television, and I needed to find a way to discuss that. Otherwise the big, fake book would not be true on some level.

John Hodgman

#14. If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.

Abraham Cahan