Top 100 William Gibson Quotes
#1. I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers.
Tahmoh Penikett
#2. Soon there would be more feet for the freezer. Oh, thank Jesus for the Internet. Thank Jesus and Mary and Joseph and God and William Gibson and Montgomery Clift and his mommy and the spider. Thank
Robert Pobi
#4. I've tended to find that myths of the near future give people the ability to really kind of explore the present, so say for example if look at William Gibson and his book Neuromancer or if you look at J.G. Ballard or Samuel Delaney those are probably three of my favorite writers in that genre.
DJ Spooky
#5. There is a great deal of cyberpunk that I admire, especially the work of William Gibson which I think is excellent. Somehow he speaks from his own heart and cyber punk is what comes out.
Robert Sheckley
#6. The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. - WILLIAM GIBSON,
Timothy Ferriss
#7. William Gibson told only half the story: like the future, the past is also here in the present, and just as unevenly distributed.
China Mieville
#8. Until I was 16, I read nothing but science fiction. I loved William Gibson and I still do. But my favourite book when I was growing up, for a long time, was 'Snow Crash' by Neal Stephenson, which I must have read about a dozen times when I was a teenager.
Ned Beauman
#9. I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.
William Gibson
#10. Reading, his therapist had suggested, had likely been his first drug.
William Gibson
#11. The windows of army surplus stores constituted hymns to male powerlessness.
William Gibson
#12. After she'd called for the car, they waited outside while it drove itself over.
William Gibson
#13. It had always felt to me as though Washington, D.C., to Boston was one span of stuff. You never really leave Springsteenland, you're just in this unbroken highway and strip-mall landscape.
William Gibson
#15. The dubious niche Case had carved for himself in the criminal ecology of Night City had been cut out with lies, scooped out a night at a time with betrayal.
William Gibson
#16. Every AI ever built has an electromagnetic shotgun wired to its forehead.' Case
William Gibson
#17. Sometimes, I feel like a time traveller, cause the only way that we can really travel in time is just to get older.
William Gibson
#18. I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.
William Gibson
#20. Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.
William Gibson
#21. This is without subtlety, he said, as if to himself. His voice was cool and pleasant. His every move was part of a dance, a dance that never ended, even when his body was still, at rest, but for all the power it suggested, there was also a humility, an open simplicity.
William Gibson
#22. It will be like watching one of her own dreams on television. Some vast and deeply personal insult to any ordinary notion of interiority.
An experience outside culture.
William Gibson
#23. Stray bits of Lego edged fitfully about among lower strata, like bright rectilinear beetles.
William Gibson
#24. I don't think nostalgia is a healthy modality. But nostalgia and a sense of history are not the same thing. Nostalgia is a dysfunction of the historical impulse, or a corruption of the historical impulse.
William Gibson
#25. INTO HER DARKNESS, a churning synaesthesia, where her pain was the taste of old iron, scent of melon, wings of a moth brushing her cheek. She was unconscious, and he was barred from her dreams.
William Gibson
#26. Upon arriving in the capital-F Future, we discover it, invariably, to be the lower-case now.
William Gibson
#27. I'm a really good eavesdropper. I listen to what people say and remember all the buzzwords.
William Gibson
#28. True home of a generation of completely uninhibited technophiles. She was talking about those odds and ends of "futuristic" Thirties and Forties architecture you pass daily in American cities without noticing;
William Gibson
#29. Laney had recently noticed that the only people who had titles that clearly described their jobs had jobs he wouldn't have wanted.
William Gibson
#30. Somewhere, deep within her, surfaces a tiny clockwork submarine. There are times when you can only take the next step. And then another.
William Gibson
#31. So Hosaka's built a regular little neurosurgery and staffed it with three hotshots. Two of them are company men, the third's a Korean who knows black medicine from both ends.
William Gibson
#32. Friday, August 04, 2006
MONUMENT
posted 8:31 AM
Silver nitrous girls pointed into occult winds of porn and destiny.
William Gibson
#33. The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.
William Gibson
#34. The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
William Gibson
#36. And somewhere he was laughing, in a white-painted loft, distant fingers caressing the deck, tears of release streaking his face.
William Gibson
#37. A dream long lost in the compulsive effort to fill space, to replicate some family image of self.
William Gibson
#38. Like when you're young, you figure you're unique. I was young.
William Gibson
#39. Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky.
William Gibson
#40. Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm.
William Gibson
#41. 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
#42. All I knew about the word cyberspace when I coined it, was that it seemed like an effective buzzword. It seemed evocative and essentially meaningless. It was suggestive of something, but had no real semantic meaning, even for me, as I saw it emerge on the page.
William Gibson
#43. I had a list of things that science fiction, particularly American science fiction, to me seemed to do with tedious regularity. One was to not have strong female protagonists. One was to envision the future, whatever it was, as America.
William Gibson
#44. Yeah, it's so popular it's almost legal. The customers are torn between needing someone and wanting to be alone at the same time, which has probably always been the name of that particular game, even before we had the neuroelectronics to enable them to have it both ways.
William Gibson
#45. Genuinely ubiquitous computing spreads like warm Vaseline.
William Gibson
#46. It was such an easy thing, death. He saw that now: It just happened. You screwed up by a fraction and there it was, something chill and odorless, ballooning out from the four stupid corners of the room, your mother's Barrytown living room.
William Gibson
#47. Enlightenment is "being," and it grows; it's end is serenity.
William Gibson
#48. His nostrils were permanently flared, as though he sniffed invisible winds of art and commerce.
William Gibson
#50. The rain was falling steadily now, but she felt as though she were somehow in collusion with it; it lent the day something conspiratorial,
William Gibson
#51. You are exhibiting symptoms of urban singles angst. There are cures for this. Drink up. Go.
William Gibson
#52. Maelcum a rude boy," said the other, "an' a righteous tug pilot.
William Gibson
#53. My first impulse, when presented with any spanking-new piece of computer hardware, is to imagine how it will look in ten years' time, gathering dust under a card table in a thrift shop.
William Gibson
#54. Maverick techs who liked earning danger money and had proven they could keep their mouths shut.
William Gibson
#55. The thing that 'Neuromancer' predicts as being actually like the Internet isn't actually like the Internet at all!
William Gibson
#56. The color of its skin reminded him of Zone's whores;
William Gibson
#57. The future is here - it just has not been uniformly distributed.
William Gibson
#58. Perched on the edge of Case's worktable like some kind of state of the art gargoyle,
William Gibson
#59. All my life I've encountered people who were obsessed with one particular class of object or experience, who were constantly pursuing that thing. Since I was a little kid, I hadn't afforded myself the opportunity, I guess, to have a hobby.
William Gibson
#60. 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.
William Gibson
#61. Seated each afternoon in the darkened screening room, Halliday came to recognise the targeted numerals of the Academy leader as sigils preceding the dream state of a film.
William Gibson
#62. And in the bloodlit dark behind his eyes, silver phosphenes boiled in from the edge of space, hypnagogic images jerking past like a film compiled of random frames. Symbols, figures, faces, a blurred, fragmented mandala of visual information.
William Gibson
#63. I was afraid to watch 'Blade Runner' in the theater because I was afraid the movie would be better than what I myself had been able to imagine. In a way, I was right to be afraid, because even the first few minutes were better.
William Gibson
#64. The faces he woke up with in the worlds hotels were like God's own hood ornaments. Women's sleeping faces, identical and alone, naked, aimed straight out to the void.
William Gibson
#65. She's spoken with Parkaboy twice before, and both times it's been odd, in the way that initial telephone conversations with people you've gotten to know well on the Net, yet have never met, are odd. She
William Gibson
#66. The future's here already. It's just unevenly distributed.
William Gibson
#67. I'm away for a while. But there's no cash on the premises, no drugs, and the pitbull's tested positive. Twice.
William Gibson
#68. Otherwise, he'd have found the ruin empty, and then, somehow, very quietly and almost naturally, he would have died.
William Gibson
#69. He disliked the narrative aspects of history, particularly that part of it. People were so boringly deformed by it, like Ash, or else, like Lev, scarcely aware of it.
William Gibson
#70. Indeed, today, reliance on broadcasting is the very definition of a technologically backward society.
William Gibson
#72. I didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often been triumphalist and militaristic, a sort of folk propaganda for American exceptionalism.
William Gibson
#73. And waking, once again, face smudged into Andrea's couch, the red quilt humped around her shoulders, smelling coffee, while Andrea hummed some Tokyo pop song to herself in the next room, dressing, in a gray morning of Paris rain.
William Gibson
#74. Damien is a friend.
Their boy-girl Lego doesn't click, he would say.
William Gibson
#75. I did not come to this country for the terror from paramilitary," declared Voytek, hoarsely. "I did not come to this country for motherfucker. But motherfucker is waiting. Always. Is carceral state, surveillance state. Orwell. You have read Orwell?
William Gibson
#76. She was sometimes happy, in the sense of being somehow complete, and ready for what another day might bring. And knows she is no longer that, and that while she was, she scarcely knew it.
William Gibson
#77. The prefix cyber is going the way of the prefix electro,
William Gibson
#78. I don't always like writing, but I very much like having written.
William Gibson
#79. Coldiron is concerned about the townspeople not being priced out of chili dogs, but willing to condone dosing religious protesters, however repellant, with something that turns them into homicidal erotomaniacs?
William Gibson
#80. As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically induced social change. I roam up and down it in a kind of special way because I roam down it into history, which is invariably itself a speculative affair.
William Gibson
#81. subgenres are products of the writers' urgent necessity to avoid tangling with a realistic
William Gibson
#82. The yellow Lego was brick-shaped again. Pretending innocence.
William Gibson
#83. Interface evolves toward transparency. The one you have to devote the least conscious effort to, survives, prospers.
William Gibson
#84. How it was, when you lost things, it was like you only knew for the first time that you'd ever had them. ( ... ) You didn't wake up every morning and say yes and yes to every little thing. But little things were what it was all made of. Or just somebody to see, there, when you woke up.
William Gibson
#87. Drug deficiency. It was a Sprawl voice and a Sprawl joke. The Chatsubo was a bar for professional expatriates; you could drink there for a week and never hear two words in Japanese.
William Gibson
#88. But Leon wasn't due any disability. Wasn't, their mother said, like he could claim to have caught the dumbfuck there. Not
William Gibson
#89. Homo sapiens is about pattern recognition, he says. Both a gift and a trap.
William Gibson
#90. Burgeoning technologies require outlaw zones, that Night City wasn't there for its inhabitants, but as a deliberately unsupervised playground for technology itself.
William Gibson
#91. There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.
William Gibson
#92. Annie: Maybe you all do. It's my idea of the original sin.
James: What is?
Annie: Giving up.
William Gibson
#93. Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.
William Gibson
#94. Destiny spelled out in a constellation of cheap chrome.
William Gibson
#95. Things were launching themselves from the ornate sunburst spires, glittering leech shapes made of shifting planes of light. There were hundreds of them, rising in a whirl, their movements random as windblown paper down dawn streets. "Glitch systems," the voice said.
William Gibson
#96. I think science fiction gives us a wonderful toolkit to disassemble and reexamine this kind of incomprehensible, constantly changing present that we live in, that we often live in quite uncomfortably.
William Gibson
#97. I watch for emergent technologies and pay attention to what people say they'll be good for, then see what we actually use them for. It never occurred to me that a tiny telephone with a wireless transceiver would do whatever it is that it's done to us.
William Gibson
#98. He'd been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and numb at the cold sweating center of every drug deal. But now he'd found this warm thing, this chip of murder. Meat, some part of him said. It's the meat talking, ignore it.
William Gibson
#99. As individuals steadily lose degrees of privacy, so too do corporations and states.
William Gibson
#100. When you raise the dead, they bring their baggage.
William Gibson
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