William Gibson Quotes

To the very limited extent that I have a political consciousness, to some extent I'm a lazy, apolitical sort of guy that just flits around.

Art Deco for me except in its most crazed and attenuated forms, it's jut a matter of taste.

What strikes me about Toronto is that Toronto's great misfortune was to have too much money in the late 70s and early 80s, and consequently, it built in the style of those periods, which is hideous.

If someone comes in and says, "What are you doing," if I'm honest, the answer is, "I don't know. But I'm doing THIS, don't know why."

For me, the melancholy of the late XXth Century is walking late at night by the Mont Blanc pen store and seeing these things always strike me as simulacra of luxury items. They seem like fakes.

I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.

The construct of William Gibson the Writer is coming down, and become more open. It's more of a Glasnost - Transparency! Transparency is what it is.

To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable.

Some people dote on contemplating disasters.

Tim Powers is a brilliant writer.

Occasionally if I look back at something I've written I'll find one of those that I don't understand, but that's a bad thing - the unconscious has dealt me a bad hand.

The future is here - it just has not been uniformly distributed.

The street has its own use for things.

I don't think about the real future very much.

Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.

There's violence in my culture [from America's South].

Somehow I think that if Toronto had been forced to wait a decade [from 80th], it would be a better looking city.

We monitor many frequencies. We listen always. Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty dub.

I feel like I've been very fortunate in that I've stuck like a burr to the dog-leg of the next generation of nerdism. I've been carried into the XXIth century on Bill Gates' pants-cuff.

"Cyberspace is everting." It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state.

The future is already upon us, it is just unevenly distributed.

I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.

All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and still he'd see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void.

The future's here already. It's just unevenly distributed.

Time is money, but also money is money.

It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.

Cyberspace is where you are when you're on the telephone.

I suppose I do the Japanese because I just don't know China. Chinese popular culture has never evoked that instant of, "Whoah! What's that?" that I have with Japanese popular culture.

I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.

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.

I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.

I'm a really good eavesdropper. I listen to what people say and remember all the buzzwords.

I have this prejudice that trilogies are long, three-volume novels.

I've always been interested in people who aren't from anywhere in particular. I think it's all melting. This has been true for as long as I can remember in my adult life.

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

The future is already here – it's just not evenly distri

In Heathrow a vast chunk of memory detached itself from a blank bowl of airport sky and fell on him. He vomited into a blue plastic canister without breaking stride.

All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and still he'd see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void...

The future is already here - it's just not evenly distributed.

The future is already here. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

Mary Shelley may well have invented science fiction. I think she did! But after that it seemed to be a boys' game.

She is increasingly of the opinion that worrying about problems doesn't help solve them, but she hasn't really found an alternative yet. Surely you can't just leave them there.

When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

She's right, Kate's right, I'm right and you're wrong. If you drive her away from here it will be over my dead— chair, has it never occurred to you at on one occasion you might be consummately wrong?

Far more creativity, today, goes into marketing of products than into the products themselves

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

You're from the future, Mr Netherton?""Not exactly, " he said. "I'm in the future that would result from my not being here. But since I am, it isn't your future. Here.

Rain woke him, a slow drizzle, his feet tangled in coils of discarded fiberoptics. The arcade's sea of sound washed over him, receded, returned. Rolling over, he sat up and held his head.

I've never really been very interested in computers themselves. I don't watch them I watch how people behave around them. That's becoming more difficult to do because everything is around them.