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William Gibson Quotes

I’m often saddened and dismayed to see myself portrayed as either a Luddite or as a raving technophile. I’ve always thought that my job was to be as anthropologically neutral about emerging technologies as possible Picture Quote #1

I’ve become convinced that nostalgia is a fundamentally unhealthy modality. When you see it, it’s usually attached to something else that’s really, seriously bad. I don’t traffic in nostalgia. We’re becoming a global culture Picture Quote #1

That’s one of my favorite things about Twitter: You can tweak your feed into a fabulous novelty engine. That’s only one thing you can do with it, but it’s one of the things I find most entertaining about it Picture Quote #1

The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should really be considered. We have this industry in which we cut down trees to make the paper that we then use enormous amounts of electricity to turn into books that weigh a great deal and are then shipped enormous distances to point-of-sale retail Picture Quote #1

The Internet is part of this ongoing, species-long project we’ve been working on since we climbed down out of the trees in the savanna. We’ve been working on it without really knowing it Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become Picture Quote #1

Part of the core of my system, is a way of trying to give the characters more control. If I’m practicing making up what the characters will do, it’s never good. In fact, when I catch myself doing that, I try to get rid of that section, and try and let them start making the decisions Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I can’t imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. I actually tend to suspect that in real life, there have always been very strong female characters, but at certain stages of society, they’ve been asked to cool it Picture Quote #1

We don’t legislate emergent technologies into existence. We almost never do. They just emerge, dragged forth by Adam Smith’s invisible hand. Then we have to see what people are actually going to do with them, and try to legislate to take account of that Picture Quote #1

The nature of emergent technology is, as Kevin Kelly once said, right out of control. It’s an element of human evolution that’s completely out of control. It’s sort of driving itself, and I don’t see it ceasing to do that Picture Quote #1

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Art Deco for me except in its most crazed and attenuated forms, it’s jut a matter of taste Picture Quote #1

If I’m practicing making up what the characters will do, it’s never good. In fact, when I catch myself doing that, I try to get rid of that section, and try and let them start making the decisions Picture Quote #1

I think that our future has lost that capital F we used to spell it with. The science fiction future of my childhood has had a capital F - it was assumed to be an American Future because America was the future. The Future was assumed to be inherently heroic, and a lot of other things, as well Picture Quote #1

Sometimes, I can myself be frustrated by books that seem to me to be insufficiently realistic about the world’s potential for just being totally a randomly bad place Picture Quote #1

Somehow I think that if Toronto had been forced to wait a decade [from 80th], it would be a better looking city Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky Picture Quote #1

I can’t imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting Picture Quote #1

A book exists at the intersection of the author’s subconscious and the reader’s response Picture Quote #1

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms Picture Quote #1

I’ve never actually been a collector. I like the learning-curve, but I buy things, sell them to finance other things Picture Quote #1

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Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from 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 Picture Quote #1

I’m not the only one: witness Pokemon! They still keep coming up with this stuff that just rivets us in unexpected areas Picture Quote #1

[The currency of being celebrity] used to be only the elect had any manna in the information society and everyone else was a consumer Picture Quote #1

Whenever I read a contemporary literary novel that describes the world we’re living in, I wait for the science fiction tools to come out. Because they have to - the material demands it Picture Quote #1

In the early 80s, I happened to find myself in the vicinity of people who would work for Microsoft five years later Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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I’m often saddened and dismayed to see myself portrayed as either a Luddite or as a raving technophile. I’ve always thought that my job was to be as anthropologically neutral about emerging technologies as possible (William Gibson Quotes) I’ve become convinced that nostalgia is a fundamentally unhealthy modality. When you see it, it’s usually attached to something else that’s really, seriously bad. I don’t traffic in nostalgia. We’re becoming a global culture (William Gibson Quotes) That’s one of my favorite things about Twitter: You can tweak your feed into a fabulous novelty engine. That’s only one thing you can do with it, but it’s one of the things I find most entertaining about it (William Gibson Quotes) The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should really be considered. We have this industry in which we cut down trees to make the paper that we then use enormous amounts of electricity to turn into books that weigh a great deal and are then shipped enormous distances to point-of-sale retail (William Gibson Quotes) The Internet is part of this ongoing, species-long project we’ve been working on since we climbed down out of the trees in the savanna. We’ve been working on it without really knowing it (William Gibson Quotes) 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 (William Gibson Quotes) The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become (William Gibson Quotes) Part of the core of my system, is a way of trying to give the characters more control. If I’m practicing making up what the characters will do, it’s never good. In fact, when I catch myself doing that, I try to get rid of that section, and try and let them start making the decisions (William Gibson Quotes) 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 Quotes) I can’t imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. I actually tend to suspect that in real life, there have always been very strong female characters, but at certain stages of society, they’ve been asked to cool it (William Gibson Quotes) We don’t legislate emergent technologies into existence. We almost never do. They just emerge, dragged forth by Adam Smith’s invisible hand. Then we have to see what people are actually going to do with them, and try to legislate to take account of that (William Gibson Quotes) The nature of emergent technology is, as Kevin Kelly once said, right out of control. It’s an element of human evolution that’s completely out of control. It’s sort of driving itself, and I don’t see it ceasing to do that (William Gibson Quotes) Art Deco for me except in its most crazed and attenuated forms, it’s jut a matter of taste (William Gibson Quotes) If I’m practicing making up what the characters will do, it’s never good. In fact, when I catch myself doing that, I try to get rid of that section, and try and let them start making the decisions. (William Gibson Quotes) I think that our future has lost that capital F we used to spell it with. The science fiction future of my childhood has had a capital F - it was assumed to be an American Future because America was the future. The Future was assumed to be inherently heroic, and a lot of other things, as well. (William Gibson Quotes) Sometimes, I can myself be frustrated by books that seem to me to be insufficiently realistic about the world’s potential for just being totally a randomly bad place. (William Gibson Quotes) Somehow I think that if Toronto had been forced to wait a decade [from 80th], it would be a better looking city. (William Gibson Quotes) 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. (William Gibson Quotes) 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. (William Gibson Quotes) Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky. (William Gibson Quotes) I can’t imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. (William Gibson Quotes) A book exists at the intersection of the author’s subconscious and the reader’s response (William Gibson Quotes) For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms. (William Gibson Quotes) I’ve never actually been a collector. I like the learning-curve, but I buy things, sell them to finance other things. (William Gibson Quotes) Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from 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 Quotes) I’m not the only one: witness Pokemon! They still keep coming up with this stuff that just rivets us in unexpected areas. (William Gibson Quotes) [The currency of being celebrity] used to be only the elect had any manna in the information society and everyone else was a consumer. (William Gibson Quotes) Whenever I read a contemporary literary novel that describes the world we’re living in, I wait for the science fiction tools to come out. Because they have to - the material demands it. (William Gibson Quotes) In the early 80s, I happened to find myself in the vicinity of people who would work for Microsoft five years later. (William Gibson Quotes) 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 Quotes)

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