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Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort. -- William Gibson
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It seemed that it was changing subtly, cooking itself down under the pressure of time, silent invisible flakes settling to form a mulch, a crystalline essence of discarded technology, flowering secretly in the Sprawl's waste places. -- William Gibson
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Now Sally plunged her abruptly into the full strangeness of this place, with its rot and randomness rooting towers taller than any in Tokyo, corporate obelisks that pierced the sooty lacework of overlapping domes. -- William Gibson
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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. -- William Gibson
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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? -- William Gibson
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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
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Annie: Maybe you all do. It's my idea of the original sin.
James: What is?
Annie: Giving up. -- William Gibson
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When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart. -- William Gibson
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Stray bits of Lego edged fitfully about among lower strata, like bright rectilinear beetles. -- William Gibson
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For some reason, now, she saw the panel in the Roberts, all those faces. Read Us the Book of the Names of the Dead. All the Marlys, she thought all the girls she'd been through the long season of youth. -- William Gibson
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Something she'd gotten from Burton and the Corps, that you didn't do things in the clothes you sat around in. You got yourself squared away, then your intent did too. -- William Gibson
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Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky. -- William Gibson
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The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future. -- William Gibson
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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. -- William Gibson
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She held out her hands, palms up, the white fingers lightly spread, and with a barely audible click, ten double-edged, four-centimeter scalpel blades slid from their housings beneath the burgundy nails.
She smiled. The blades slowly withdrew. -- William Gibson
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A trio of young office techs who wore idealized holographic vaginas on their wrists, wet pink glittering under the harsh lighting. -- William Gibson
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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
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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
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I do not think an enormous permanent underclass is a very good thing to have if you're attempting to operate something that at least pretends sometimes to be a democracy. -- William Gibson
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All we really have when we pretend to write about the future is the moment in which we are writing. That's why every imagined future obsoletes like an ice cream melting on the way back from the corner store. -- William Gibson
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The color of its skin reminded him of Zone's whores; -- William Gibson
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Damien is a friend.
Their boy-girl Lego doesn't click, he would say. -- William Gibson
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Terror should remain the sole prerogative of the state. -- William Gibson
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A part of him knew that the arc of his self-destruction was glaringly obvious to his customers, who grew steadily fewer, but that same part of him basked in the knowledge that it was only a matter of time. -- William Gibson
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Not hungry,' Case managed. His brain was deep-fried. No, he decided, it had been thrown into hot fat and left there, and the fat had cooled, a thick dull grease congealing on the wrinkled lobes, shot through with greenish-purple flashes of pain. 'You -- William Gibson
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Upon arriving in the capital-F Future, we discover it, invariably, to be the lower-case now. -- William Gibson
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The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly and at great length. If not for our excessive vanity and our over-active imaginations, novelists might be unusually difficult to deceive. -- William Gibson
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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
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To hire someone willing to undertake an unspecified task, likely involving violence. -- William Gibson
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I'm quite proud of what I anticipated about reality television from my books in the early '90s, which I based on the early seasons of 'Cops' and on the amazing stuff I had read about happening on Japanese shows and the British 'Big Brother'. -- William Gibson
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Laney felt the pills he'd taken, the ones that were supposed to cushion the jet lag, drop out from under him like some kind of rotten pharmacological scaffolding. -- William Gibson
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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
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If the content is sufficiently engrossing, however, you don't need wraparound deep-immersion goggles to shut out the world. You grow your own. You are there. Watching the content you most want to see, you see nothing else. -- William Gibson
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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
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Are you - are you sad?"
- No.
"But your - your songs are sad."
- My songs are of time and distance. The sadness is in you. Watch my arms. There is only the dance. These things you treasure are shells. -- William Gibson
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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
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When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing. -- William Gibson
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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
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When you raise the dead, they bring their baggage. -- William Gibson
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I'm not a very intentional writer. I try to be as unintentional as possible. What I basically try to do is invite the zeitgeist in to tea. -- William Gibson
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Heidi's room looked like the aftermath of a not-very-successful airplane bombing. Something that blew open every suitcase in the luggage compartment without bringing the plane down. -- William Gibson
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And then she hears the sound of a helicopter, from somewhere behind her and, turning, sees the long white beam of light sweeping the dead ground as it comes, like a lighthouse gone mad from loneliness, and searching that barren ground as foolishly, as randomly, as any grieving heart ever has. -- William Gibson
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He feels it as a single indescribable shape, something brailled out for him against a ground or backdrop of he knows not what, and it hurts him, in the poet's phrase, like the world hurts God. -- William Gibson
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Between the trees, on gentle and too cleverly irregular slopes of sweet green grass, the bright umbrellas shaded the hotel's guests from the unfaltering radiance of the Lado-Acheson sun. -- William Gibson
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Mary Shelley may well have invented science fiction. I think she did! But after that it seemed to be a boys' game. -- William Gibson
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Some people dote on contemplating disasters. -- William Gibson
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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
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And worse, they'll trample on it, inadvertently crush it, beneath a certain mediocrity inherent in professional competence. -- William Gibson
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People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet have a fully adult concept of scary. -- William Gibson
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Freeside is Las Vegas and the hanging gardens of Babylon, an orbital Geneva and home to a family inbred and most carefully refined, the industrial clan of Tessier and Ashpool. -- William Gibson
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The expensive-looking thing in her hand resembled a cross between a miniature oar and an orthopedic brace. She was off for a fast game of something, but Case had no idea what. -- William Gibson
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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
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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. -- William Gibson
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That's something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applications turn up on a battlefield, or in a gallery. -- William Gibson
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I assume that - because you can get degrees in journalism from very reputable universities - I assume that people can be trained to be journalists. I've never been entirely certain that anyone can be trained to be a novelist in the same way. -- William Gibson
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She was big on patination. That was how quality wore in, she said, as opposed to out. Distressing, on the other hand, was the faking of patination, and was actually a way of concealing a lack of quality. -- William Gibson
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Now Gentry went to the big display unit, the projection table. "There are worlds within worlds," he said. "Macrocosm, microcosm. -- William Gibson
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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
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I'm not a computer guy. I'm like an anthropologist. I'm fascinated with people's obsessions. I've learned to wear them. -- William Gibson
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Don't let the little fuckers generation gap you. -- William Gibson
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There was that same sense of being surrounded by the sleeping inhabitants of a waking world he had no interest in visiting or knowing, of dull business temporarily suspended, of futility and repetition soon to wake again. -- William Gibson
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She is like a little safe, locked, that no one can open. Perhaps there is a treasure inside. -- William Gibson
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Shit," she said, small hand gesturing to encompass their situation. "Lots of it. Now. Hitting many fans. Large ones. -- William Gibson
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Case gasped as his internal organs were pulled into a different configuration. -- William Gibson
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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
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He took a duck in the face at 250 knots. -- William Gibson
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He robbed a bank in Wichita. -- William Gibson
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I knew he used women as counters in a game, Bobby Quine versus time and the night of cities. And Rikki had turned up just when he needed something to get him going, something to aim for. So he'd set her up as a symbol for everything he wanted and couldn't have, everything he'd had and couldn't keep. -- William Gibson
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I'm not Wintermute now." "So what are you." He drank from the flask, feeling nothing. "I'm the matrix, -- William Gibson
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Something she'd gotten from Burton -- William Gibson
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If you believe the journalists, he's the single wealthiest individual, period. As rich as some zaibatsu. But there's the catch, really: is he an individual? In the sense that you are, or I am? No. -- William Gibson
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There are no backwaters where things can breed - our connectivity is so high and so global that there are no more Seattles and no more Haight-Ashburys. We've arrived at a level of commodification that may have negated the concept of counterculture. -- William Gibson
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Architectural photography can involve a lot of waiting; the building becomes a kind of sundial, while you wait for a shadow to crawl away from a detail you want, or for the mass and balance of the structure to reveal itself in a certain way. -- William Gibson
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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
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I had read and admired Ballard and Burroughs, and I thought of them as very powerful effect pedals. You get to a certain place in the story and you just step on the Ballard. -- William Gibson
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Berry," Pursley said, "you're in trouble, son. A cop. And an honest one. In trouble. In deep, spectacular, and, please, I have to say this, clearly heroic shit. -- William Gibson
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A few stray bits of Lego edged fitfully about among lower strata, -- William Gibson
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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
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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. -- William Gibson
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Secrets...are the very root of cool. -- William Gibson
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Science fiction was one of those places, particularly during the McCarthy era, where you could write whatever you wanted because it was beneath contempt. They didn't bother censoring it. -- William Gibson
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Mechanical watches partake of what my friend John Clute calls the Tamagotchi Gesture. They're pointless in a peculiarly needful way; they're comforting precisely because they require tending. -- William Gibson
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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
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She remembers an eerily young Sean Connery, in that first James Bond film, using fine clear Scottish spit to paste one of his gorgeous black hairs across the gap between the jamb and the door of his hotel room. -- William Gibson
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It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. -- William Gibson
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We're an information economy. They teach you that in school. What they don't tell you is that it's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. Fragments that can be retrieved, amplified ... -- William Gibson
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The history of the past, a hundred years from now, won't be the history of the past that we learned in school because much more will have been revealed, and adjectives we can't even imagine will have been brought to bear on what we did learn in school. -- William Gibson
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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
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Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting with the vice-president, though too careful to get himself shot. -- William Gibson
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She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it. -- William Gibson
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If I write something set 60 years in the future, I am going to have to explain how humanity got there, and that's becoming quite a big job. -- William Gibson
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They seem to have accepted that she's gone." "I don't see how they could be sure she is. But I wish we'd known. Could've brought some flowers." "Daedra never suggested this. It seems to be a surprise." "A surprise funeral? You do that, here?" "A first, for me. -- William Gibson
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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. -- William Gibson
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Enlightenment is "being," and it grows; it's end is serenity. -- William Gibson
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It took a month for the gestalt of drugs and tension he moved through to turn those perpetually startled eyes into wells of reflexive need. He'd watched her personality fragment, calving like an iceberg, splinters drifting away, and finally he'd seen the raw need, the hungry armature of addiction. -- William Gibson
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Armitage smiled, a smile that meant as much as the twitch of some insect's antenna. -- William Gibson
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But I suppose that is the way of an artiste, no? You needed this world built for you, this beach, this place. To die. -- William Gibson
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Japan Air's orbital terminus was a white toroid studded with domes and ringed with the dark-rimmed oval openings of docking bays. -- William Gibson
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The charges have to do with conspiracy to augment an artificial intelligence. -- William Gibson
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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
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The written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. It was a sluggish country. -- William Gibson
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A prophet. A shaman. Motivated extraordinarily, thus extraordinarily motivating. Taking the same drugs they took, which he himself provided. Though of course he didn't actually take them. If you fancy resenting the tedious, I recommend intentional communities, particularly those led by charismatics. -- William Gibson
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The act of connection produces a fork in causality, the new branch causally unique. A stub, as we call them. -- William Gibson
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Three in the morning.
Making yourself a cup of coffee in the dark, using a flashlight when you pour the boiling water. -- William Gibson
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Dixie?" "Yeah." "You ever try to crack an AI?" "Sure. I flatlined. First time. I was larkin', jacked up real high, out by Rio heavy commerce sector. Big biz, multinationals, Government of Brazil lit up like a Christmas tree. -- William Gibson
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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
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Angie called pause again, rose from the bed, went to the window. She felt an elation, an unexpected sense of strength and inner unity. -- William Gibson
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Zion smelled of cooked vegetables, humanity, and ganja. -- William Gibson
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Case gradually became aware of the music that pulsed constantly through the cluster. It was called dub, a sensuous mosaic cooked from vast libraries of digitalized pop; -- William Gibson
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The bartender's smile widened. His ugliness was the stuff of legend. In an age of affordable beauty, there was something heraldic about his lack of it. -- William Gibson
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A sense of the Finn's presence surrounded him, smell of Cuban cigarettes, smoke locked in musty tweed, old machines given up to the mineral rituals of rust. -- William Gibson
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She [Cayce Pollard] feels the things she herself owns as a sort of pressure. Other people's objects exert no pressure. Margot thinks that Cayce has weaned herself from materialism, is preternaturally adult, requiring no external tokens of self. -- William Gibson
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It's like wearing your cock ring to meet the pope, and making sure he sees it. -- William Gibson
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You will come with us. We are at home with situations of legal ambiguity. The treaties under which our arm of the Registry operates grant us a great deal of flexibility. And we create flexibility, in situations where it is required. -- William Gibson
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The men in bars, who explain every dark secret of this world, Tito, have you noticed, no secret requires more than three drinks to explain. Who killed the Kennedys? Three drinks. America's real motive in Iraq? Three drinks. The three-drink answers can never contain the truth. The -- William Gibson
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After she'd called for the car, they waited outside while it drove itself over. -- William Gibson
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I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there on the beach. I was like a summer baby. But I did grow up in the South. I grew up in serious, serious Appalachia, in a very small town. -- William Gibson
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Every AI ever built has an electromagnetic shotgun wired to its forehead.' Case -- William Gibson
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I'm always interested in the spooky repurposing of everyday things. -- William Gibson
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And he could still listen to the far-off plaint of a train horn as the express rolled through the night, wailing through a darkness lit solely by moon and fireflies; -- William Gibson
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If you're fifteen or so, today, I suspect that you inhabit a sort of endless digital Now, a state of atemporality enabled by our increasingly efficient communal prosthetic memory. I also suspect that you don't know it, because, as anthropologists tell us, one cannot know one's own culture. -- William Gibson
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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
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The big news in biology this week was the announcement that we've stopped evolving, in the biological sense. I'll buy that. Technology has stopped us, and technology will take us on, into a new evolution, one Mr. Bush never dreamed of, and neither, I'm sure, have I. -- William Gibson
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Destiny spelled out in a constellation of cheap chrome. -- William Gibson
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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
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You dead awhile there, mon." "It happens," he said. "I'm getting used to it." "You dealin' wi' th' darkness, mon." "Only game in town, it looks like." "Jah love, Case, -- William Gibson
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History had its fascinations, but could be burdensome. -- William Gibson
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I have this prejudice that trilogies are long, three-volume novels. -- William Gibson
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As individuals steadily lose degrees of privacy, so too do corporations and states. -- William Gibson
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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
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Nighttown, because the Pit's inverted, and the bottom of its bowl touches the sky, the sky that Nighttown never sees, sweating under its own firmament of acrylic resin, up where the Lo Teks crouch in the dark like gargoyles, -- William Gibson
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Gadgets are usually the last thing I think about, and if there's something new, I'll get to the store for the final shipment of the first generation when it's on sale. So I have last year's stuff. -- William Gibson
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If there were such a being," she said, "you'd be a part of it, wouldn't you?" "Yes." "Would you know?" "Not necessarily." "Do you know?" "No." "Do you rule out the possibility?" "No. -- William Gibson
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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
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Know what's worse than imaginary, Leon?"
"What?"
"Half-imaginary. -- William Gibson
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Singaporeans seemed generally quite loathe to discuss these more intimate policies of government with a curious foreign visitor who was more than twice as tall as the average human, and who sweated slowly but continuously, like and aged cheese. -- William Gibson
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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
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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
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And the Yak, they can afford to move so fucking slow, man, they'll wait years and years. Give you a whole life, just so you'll have more to lose when they come and take it away. Patient like a spider. Zen spiders. -- William Gibson
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Bartender's smile widened. His ugliness was the stuff of legend. In an age of affordable beauty, there was -- William Gibson
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Time is money, but also money is money. -- William Gibson
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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
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Netherton was watching the intricate texture of her bustier, which resembled a microminiature model of some Victorian cast-iron station roof, its countless tiny panes filmed as by the coal smoke of fingerling locomotives, yet flexing as she breathed and spoke. -- William Gibson
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When I wrote 'Neuromancer', I had a list in my head of all the things the future was assumed to be which it would not be in the book I was about to write. In a sense, I intended 'Neuromancer', among other things, to be a critique of all the aspects of science fiction that no longer satisfied me. -- William Gibson
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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
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A dream long lost in the compulsive effort to fill space, to replicate some family image of self. -- William Gibson
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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
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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 -- William Gibson
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the mall crowds swaying like wind-blown grass, a field of flesh shot through with sudden eddies of need and gratification -- William Gibson
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A policewoman, State, in a white paper hazmat suit, half unzipped, was standing in the middle of Porter, eating a pulled-pork sandwich. Flynne liked her haircut. Wondered if Tommy did. Then she wondered where you got a pulled-pork sandwich, this time of night. -- William Gibson
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I can see television much more easily than I can see features, because the economy and politics of making big, big features seems to me to be narrowing even from what it was. -- William Gibson
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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
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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
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Let us go somewhere where we can do some genuine, blackguard, poverty-stricken drinking, with no false gingerbread glitter thrown over everything! -- William Gibson
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I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign. -- William Gibson
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If there's anything better, God kept it for himself. -- William Gibson
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That annoying thing that tourists did, opening a feed into London's sea of blue plaques. -- William Gibson
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I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed. -- William Gibson
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subgenres are products of the writers' urgent necessity to avoid tangling with a realistic -- William Gibson
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If you've read a lot of vintage science fiction, as I have at one time or another in my life, you can't help but realise how wrong we get it. I have gotten it wrong more times than I've gotten it right. But I knew that when I started; I knew that before I wrote a word of science fiction. -- William Gibson
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How could she have imagined that it would be possible to live, to move, in the unnatural field of Virek's wealth without suffering distortion? Virek had taken her up, in all her misery, and had rotated her through the monstrous, invisible stresses of his money, and she had been changed. -- William Gibson
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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
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Stability is the beginning of the end. We only walk by continually beginning to fall forward. -- William Gibson
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I'm quite good friends with the putative director, Vincenzo Natali, and I'm a big fan of his work, but beyond that, I don't like to talk about other people's work work-in-progress. -- William Gibson
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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
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The Ono-Sendai; next year's most expensive Hosaka computer; a Sony monitor; a dozen disks of corporate-grade ice; a Braun coffeemaker. -- William Gibson
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Honey," Jammer said, "you'll learn. Some things you teach yourself to remember to forget. -- William Gibson
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And this other evening light, rainy, rose and silver, and to her left a river the color of cold lead. Dark tumble of city, towers in the distance, few lights. -- William Gibson
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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
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But, Hubertus," Cayce offers, "what if Dorothea is..."
"Yes?" He leans forward, palms flat on the table.
"A vicious lying cunt?"
Bigend giggles, a deeply alarming sound. "Well," he says, "we are in the business of advertising, after all." He smiles. -- William Gibson
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Big contrast: While the foreign media are obsessed with Apocalypses, the Japanese people are already talking of rebuilding. -- William Gibson
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I had no idea that no one else would do it. -- William Gibson
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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
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I started with Apple, in a pre-Windows era when PCs seemed to involve more of a learning curve. But the fact that I'm yet to acquire so much as a single virus still seems a very good thing. -- William Gibson
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Sleep takes her down fast, and very deep, whirls her through places too fragmentary to call dreams, then spits her abruptly back to the surface. -- William Gibson
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Indeed, today, reliance on broadcasting is the very definition of a technologically backward society. -- William Gibson
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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
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He woke with the impression of light fading, but the room was dark. Afterimages, retinal flares. The sky outside hinted at the start of a recorded dawn. There were no voices now, only the rush of water, far down the face of the Intercontinental. In -- William Gibson
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A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response. -- William Gibson
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I don't think about the real future very much. -- William Gibson
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Her four pupils bored into his, her white face perfectly immobile. "Altruism? What's happening to you?" "I don't know," he said. -- William Gibson
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Zona spat a stream of Spanish that overwhelmed translation, a long and liquid curse. -- William Gibson
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I wanted to make room for antiheroes. -- William Gibson
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ORDINARY SAD-ASS HUMANNESS -- William Gibson
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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
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thin and elegant as a mantis -- William Gibson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Voytek is here, to fuck penguin. -- William Gibson
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Maelcum a rude boy," said the other, "an' a righteous tug pilot. -- William Gibson
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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. -- William Gibson
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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. -- William Gibson
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If I meet someone and discover that they're an absolute, very earnest nationalist, it's unlikely that I'm going to get much closer to them. I don't understand them. It doesn't matter where they're from, I just don't get it. I'm a multi-national kind of guy. -- William Gibson
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It was called dub, a sensuous mosaic cooked from vast libraries of digitalized pop; it was worship, Molly said, and a sense of community. -- William Gibson
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Friday, August 04, 2006
MONUMENT
posted 8:31 AM
Silver nitrous girls pointed into occult winds of porn and destiny. -- William Gibson
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History had already done the really messy work, when Wintermute found him, sifting him out of all of the war's ripe detritus, gliding into the man's flat gray field of consciousness like a water spider crossing the face of some stagnant pool, -- William Gibson
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I know Quine, by the way. Real asshole. -- William Gibson
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I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing. -- William Gibson
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I'm interested in people who become culturally fluent. And when I meet young people I'm often amazed they don't quite seem to have a sense of where they're from. They're like the citizens of the airport. -- William Gibson
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Night City was like a deranged experiment in social Dar-
winism, designed by a bored researcher who kept one thumb
permanently on the fast-forward button. -- William Gibson
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His nostrils were permanently flared, as though he sniffed invisible winds of art and commerce. -- William Gibson
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Those fuckers," Janice said, meaning the football players, "they get me doing hate Kegels. -- William Gibson
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A pair of predatory-looking Christian Scientists were edging toward a trio of young office techs who wore idealized holographic vaginas on their wrists, wet pink glittering under the harsh lighting. The -- William Gibson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Conspiracy theory's got to be simple. Sense doesn't come into it. People are more scared of how complicated shit actually is than they ever are about whatever's supposed to be behind the conspiracy. -- William Gibson
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The future is already upon us, it is just unevenly distributed. -- William Gibson
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Change is happening and old structures are falling in the form of a "Death of a Thousand Cuts." In other words one grand act is not occuring but a multitude of small expressions on the part of individuals, both slowly and swiftly taking the place of heirarchy and history. -- William Gibson
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Wonderful", the Flatline said, "I never did like to do anything simple when I could do it ass-backwards. -- William Gibson
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Otherwise, he'd have found the ruin empty, and then, somehow, very quietly and almost naturally, he would have died. -- William Gibson
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The Thirties dreamed white marble and slip-stream chrome, immortal crystal and burnished bronze, but the rockets on the covers of the Gernsback pulps had fallen on London in the dead of night, screaming. -- William Gibson
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They had remained silent during the trial, their leader stating only that the disease was God's vengeance on sinners and the unclean. Lean men with shaven heads and blank, implacable eyes, they were God's gunmen, and would stare, as such, from all the tapes of history, forever. But -- William Gibson
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I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. -- William Gibson
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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
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A week later he was in Tokyo, his face reflected in an elevator's gold-veined mirror for this three-floor ascent of the aggressively nondescript O My Golly Building. To be admitted to Death Cube K, apparently a Franz Kafka theme bar. -- William Gibson
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The thing that 'Neuromancer' predicts as being actually like the Internet isn't actually like the Internet at all! -- William Gibson
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Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking. -- William Gibson
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The whole industry wobbles along like a shopping cart with a missing wheel. You can only keep it moving if you lean on it a certain way and keep pushing, but if you stop, it tips over. -- William Gibson
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Hitler had had entirely too brilliant a graphics department, and had understood the power of branding all too well. -- William Gibson
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He could guess the end, the finale. There was an inverted symmetry: Riviera puts the dreamgirl together, the dreamgirl takes him apart. With those hands. Dreamblood soaking the rotten lace. -- William Gibson
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You can't get clever men to fight such a system, as it makes too much sense to 'em. -- William Gibson
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It was the root of street cool, too, the knowing posture that implied connection, invisible lines up to the hidden levels of influence. -- William Gibson
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What flavor, though? Chinese? Indian? I'm not even convinced it's offshore. Maybe it starts here, goes out, comes back in." "I wouldn't know about that. Company's Colombian." "Columbia S.C., for all I know, -- William Gibson
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I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing. -- William Gibson
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Tim Powers is a brilliant writer. -- William Gibson
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The box was nearly finished now, she thought, although it moved so quickly, in the padded claws, that it was difficult to see ... Abruptly, it floated free, tumbling end over end, and she sprang for it instinctively, caught it, and went tumbling past the flashing arms, her treasure in her arms. -- William Gibson
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Ancient television and withdrew a silver-black vacuum tube. "See this? Part of my DNA, sort of. . . ." He tossed the thing into the shadows and Case heard it pop and tinkle. "You're always building models. Stone circles. Cathedrals. Pipe-organs. Adding machines. -- William Gibson
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Now the deer moved through snow, snow that blew sideways, frosting the perfectly upright walls of Detroit's dead and monumental heart, vast black tines of brick reaching up to vanish in the white sky.
They made a lot of nature shows there. -- William Gibson
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Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old. -- William Gibson
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In the nearly total darkness of a Nighttown noon, who notices a few dozen mad children lost in the rafters? -- William Gibson
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Reading, his therapist had suggested, had likely been his first drug. -- William Gibson
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I am no spy." "Then start being your own. If Tokyo's the frying pan, you may just have landed in the fire. -- William Gibson
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The machine, the structure, was there, was real. Virek's money was a sort of universal solvent, dissolving barriers to his will . . . -- William Gibson
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No," Tessa said, "you've got it exactly backwards. People don't know what they want, not before they see it. Every object of desire is a found object. Traditionally, anyway." Chevette -- William Gibson
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You need to learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work -- William Gibson
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I don't think of myself as being particulary a subversive writer, but I like to think that my work could afford someone else, the extra degree of freedom that I found when I first found science fiction. -- William Gibson
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Case fell into the prison of his own flesh. -- William Gibson
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But the mind had its own ideas, and Kihn's opinion of what I was already thinking of as my "sighting" rattled endlessly, through my head in a tight, lopsided orbit. Semiotic ghosts. -- William Gibson
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..."Not if I remember to take my pills," he said, as a tangible wave of longing hit him, lust and loneliness riding in on the wavelength of amphetamine. -- William Gibson
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Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television. -- William Gibson
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Beyond ego, beyond personality, beyond awareness, he moved, Kuang moving with him, evading his attackers with an ancient dance, Hideo's dance, grace of the mind-body interface granted him, in that second, by the clarity and singleness of his wish to die. -- William Gibson
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Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet? -- William Gibson
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The future is there," Cayce hears herself say, "looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. And from where they are, the past behind us will look nothing at all like the past we imagine behind us now. -- William Gibson
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Because people who couldn't imagine themselves capable of evil were at a major disadvantage in dealing with people who didn't need to imagine, because they already were. -- William Gibson
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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
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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
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abs you could do laundry on, the -- William Gibson
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That evil wasn't glamorous, but just the result of ordinary half-assed badness, high school badness, given enough room, however that might happen, to become its bigger self. Bigger, with more horrible results, but never more than the cumulative weight of ordinary human baseness. -- William Gibson
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I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists. -- William Gibson
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Case turned back, in time to catch the briefest flash of a black rose, its petals sheened like leather, the black stem thorned with bright chrome. -- William Gibson
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Terrorism," said the rental. "We prefer not to use that term," said Lowbeer, studying her candle flame with something that looked to Netherton to be regret, "if only because terror should remain the sole prerogative of the state." She -- William Gibson
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Genuinely ubiquitous computing spreads like warm Vaseline. -- William Gibson
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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. -- William Gibson
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I'm a really good eavesdropper. I listen to what people say and remember all the buzzwords. -- William Gibson
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I felt like a punk who'd gone out to buy a switchblade and come home with a small neutron bomb.
"Screwed again", I thought. "What good's a neutron bomb in a streetfight? -- William Gibson
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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
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You could have sex relatively comfortably on a platform of books, but not on a platform of PDA.s. Hardcover books. Paperbacks might start sliding around. Though I.d still prefer paperbacks to a pile of PDA.s. -- William Gibson
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So now, in her day, he said, they were headed into androgenic, systemic, multiplex, seriously bad shit, like she sort of already knew, figured everybody did, except for people who still said it wasn't happening, and those people were mostly expecting the Second Coming, anyway. -- William Gibson
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I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified. -- William Gibson
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Cyberspace is where you are when you're on the telephone. -- William Gibson
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He'd missed the first wasp, when it built its paperfine gray house on the blistered paint of the windowframe, but soon the nest was a fist-sized lump of fiber, insects hurtling out to hunt the alley below like miniature copters buzzing the rotting contents of the dumpsters. -- William Gibson
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you can't recycle wasted time -- William Gibson
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Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye. -- William Gibson
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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
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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
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I find it interesting to see people - mostly people who are younger than I am - going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce things from an era that was far more physical, from a less virtual day. -- William Gibson
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I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction, one of the things I found lacking in it was visual specificity. It seemed there was a lot of lazy imagining, a lot of shorthand. -- William Gibson
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'Cyberspace' as a term is sort of over. It's over in the way that, after a certain time, people stopped using the suffix '-electro' to make things cool, because everything was electrical. 'Electro' was all over the early 20th century, and now it's gone. I think 'cyber' is sort of the same way. -- William Gibson
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To call up a demon you must learn its name. Men dreamed that, once, but now it is real in another way. You know that, Case. Your business is to learn the names of programs, the long formal names, names the owners seek to conceal. True names . . . -- William Gibson
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His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol. -- William Gibson
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Maverick techs who liked earning danger money and had proven they could keep their mouths shut. -- William Gibson
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Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes. -- William Gibson
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It was hot, the night we burned Chrome. -- William Gibson
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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
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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
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Now that is the real thing, the straight goods from the mass unconscious, friend; that little girl is a witch. There's just no place for her to function in this society. She'd have seen the devil, if she hadn't been brought up on The Bionic Man and all those Star Trek reruns. -- William Gibson
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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. -- William Gibson
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Heroin", declared Durius Walker, Rydell's colleague in security at the Lucky Dragon on Sunset. "It's the opiate of the masses. -- William Gibson
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Interface evolves toward transparency. The one you have to devote the least conscious effort to, survives, prospers. -- William Gibson
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I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. -- William Gibson
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A middleman's business is to make himself a necessary evil. -- William Gibson
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The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet. -- William Gibson
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The future is here - it just has not been uniformly distributed. -- William Gibson
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Like when you're young, you figure you're unique. I was young. -- William Gibson
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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. -- William Gibson
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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
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She's learned it's largely a matter of being willing to ask the next question. She's met the very Mexican who first wore his baseball cap backward, asking the next question. -- William Gibson
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The street has its own use for things. -- William Gibson
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Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting. -- William Gibson
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He could have anything in there," Gentry said, pausing to look down at the unconscious face. He spun on his heel and began his pacing again. "A world. Worlds. Any number of personality-constructs ... -- William Gibson
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Whenever the media do try to pick it up, it slides like a lone noodle from their chopsticks. -- William Gibson
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Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality. -- William Gibson
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poor Byron, whose car had been run over by an autopiloted eighteen-wheeler on Valentine's Day, about -- William Gibson
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Wintermute was a simple cube of white light, that very simplicity suggesting extreme complexity. -- William Gibson
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Far more creativity, today, goes into marketing of products than into the products themselves -- William Gibson
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There was a brass plate mounted on the door at eye level, so old that the lettering that had once been engraved there had been reduced to a spidery, unreadable code, the name of some long dead function or functionary, polished into oblivion. -- William Gibson
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If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything. -- William Gibson
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Then the snake and the scorpion were gone, and he held a milky plastic syringe in his left hand. " 'If God made anything better, he kept it for himself.' You know the expression, Case? -- William Gibson
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I would like to design what people generally call streetwear. I'd like to dress skateboarders, or whatever the older equivalent of skateboarders are. I pay more attention to that stuff than anyone would ever imagine because I'm watching what the designers do. -- William Gibson
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In a sense, if you're not getting it wrong really a lot when you're creating imaginary futures, then you're just not doing it enough. You're not creating enough imaginary futures. -- William Gibson
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The present tense made him nervous. -- William Gibson
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My dream scenario would be that you could go into a bookshop, examine copies of every book in print that they're able to offer, then for a fee have them produce in a minute or two a beautiful finished copy in a dust jacket that you would pay for and take home. -- William Gibson
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The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it. -- William Gibson
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I don't always like writing, but I very much like having written. -- William Gibson
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Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world. I think that our grandchildren will probably regard the distinction we make between what we call the real world and what they think of as simply the world as the quaintest and most incomprehensible thing about us. -- William Gibson
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Homo sapiens is about pattern recognition, he says. Both a gift and a trap. -- William Gibson
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Ghosts are nothing if not capricious. -- William Gibson
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Television has - particularly at the HBO level in the United States - become a completely new genre. Something like Deadwood or The Wire is a whole new thing - there was no equivalent to that medium before. It's like a new way of telling stories. -- William Gibson
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Time moves in one direction, memory in another. -- William Gibson
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Is a body grown in upon itself, a Gothic folly. -- William Gibson
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Fables from before the Anaheiming. -- William Gibson
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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
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The prefix cyber is going the way of the prefix electro, -- William Gibson
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We're living in a future that's weirder than anybody except possibly. -- William Gibson
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The windows of army surplus stores constituted hymns to male powerlessness. -- William Gibson
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Things aren't different. Things are things. -- William Gibson
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The future is there ... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. -- William Gibson
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And Bobby was working on a new theory of personal deportment; he didn't quite have the whole thing yet, but part of it involved the idea that people who were genuinely dangerous might not need to exhibit the fact at all, and that the ability to conceal a threat made them even more dangerous. -- William Gibson
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Be quiet, darling. Let pattern recognition have its way. -- William Gibson
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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
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So you see, Case, you need us. You need us as badly as you did when we scraped you up from the gutter. -- William Gibson
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In the early '80s, I happened to find myself in the vicinity of people who would work for Microsoft five years later. -- William Gibson
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Factual accounts of premeditated violence in the global fashion industry. -- William Gibson
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Fuck it. Just fuck it. -- William Gibson
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The yellow Lego was brick-shaped again. Pretending innocence. -- William Gibson
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If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not. -- William Gibson
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The deadliest bullshit is odorless, and transparent. -- William Gibson
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If you knew enough Greek, she thought, you could assemble a word that meant divination via the pattern of grease left on a paper plate by broasted potatoes. But it would be a long word. -- William Gibson
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The people I hang out with tend to use Macs, not that I think they're necessarily superior. -- William Gibson
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a chronic malcontent, albeit quite a purposeless one. -- William Gibson
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Stone killer, said Carlos, like that might be his favorite flavor of pie. -- William Gibson
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Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones. -- William Gibson
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All fiction, whether straight or genre, whether literature or Literature, is a personal reinterpretation of its writers' existence during the time the fiction was written. -- William Gibson
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Know what 'collateral damage' means?" "People get hurt because they happen to be near something that somebody needs to happen? -- William Gibson
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Boy, I was daid. -- William Gibson
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I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism. -- William Gibson
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If god made anything better, he kept it for himself -- William Gibson
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He's quite horrible, Virek, I think . . ." Marly hesitated. "Quite likely," Andrea said, taking another sip of coffee. "Do you expect anyone that wealthy to be a nice, normal sort?" "I felt, at one point, that he wasn't quite human. Felt that very strongly. -- William Gibson
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When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written. -- William Gibson
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Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others -- William Gibson
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stuff of legend. In an age of affordable beauty, there was something heraldic about his lack of it. The antique arm whined as he reached for -- William Gibson
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I read a great deal of science fiction with consummate pleasure between, say, the ages of 12 and 16. Then I got away from it. In my mid- to late 20s, I started trying to write it. -- William Gibson
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The world hadn't ever had so many moving parts or so few labels. -- William Gibson
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It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists. -- William Gibson
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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. -- William Gibson
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The U.S. hundred is the international currency of bad shit, Hollis, and by the same token the number one target of counterfeiters. -- William Gibson
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The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be. -- William Gibson
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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. -- William Gibson
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Perched on the edge of Case's worktable like some kind of state of the art gargoyle, -- William Gibson
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Neighborhoods that mainly operated at night had a way of looking a lot worse in the morning. -- William Gibson
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A few letter-writers had taken refuge in doorways, their old voiceprinters wrapped in sheets of clear plastic, evidence that the written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. -- William Gibson
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Stand high long enough and your lightning will come. -- William Gibson
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All the meat, he thought, and all it wants. -- William Gibson
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The street finds its own uses for things. -- William Gibson
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Terrorism as we ordinarily understand it is inately media-related. The -- William Gibson
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The future's here already. It's just unevenly distributed. -- William Gibson
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How were they weird?" "Hoodoos. Thought the matrix was full of mambos 'n' shit. Wanna know something, Moll?" "What?" "They're right. -- William Gibson
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everything a little too smooth and glossy. -- William Gibson
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Had me this boy once. You kinda remind me . . ." She turned and surveyed the corridor. "Johnny, his name was. -- William Gibson
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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
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You are exhibiting symptoms of urban singles angst. There are cures for this. Drink up. Go. -- William Gibson
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We have sealed ourselves away behind our money, growing inward, generating a seamless universe of self. -- William Gibson
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Understanding otaku-hood, I think, is one of the keys to understanding the culture of the Web. There is something profoundly postnational about it, extra-geographic. We are all curators, in the postmodern world, whether we want to be or not. -- William Gibson
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He saw Case and smiled, his teeth a webwork of East European steel and brown decay. -- William Gibson
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"Cyberspace is everting." It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state. -- William Gibson
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Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written. -- William Gibson
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Even the delusionally paranoid have enemies. -- William Gibson
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The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience. -- William Gibson
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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
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And somewhere he was laughing, in a white-painted loft, distant fingers caressing the deck, tears of release streaking his face. -- William Gibson
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And don't forget to water the fuckin' goldfish. -- William Gibson
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I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it. -- William Gibson
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When I was a child, science fiction was the first source I've found for information. Science fiction was a very very low cultural stream in those days. It was completly below the radar and no one bothered to censurate it. -- William Gibson
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You needed a new pancreas. The one we bought for you frees you from a dangerous dependency." "Thanks, but I was enjoying that dependency. -- William Gibson
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I'd always maintained that much of the anarchy and craziness of the early Internet had a lot to do with the fact that governments just hadn't realised it was there. -- William Gibson
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Paranoia, he said, was fundamentally egocentric, and every conspiracy theory served in some way to aggrandize the believer.
But he was also fond of saying, at other times, that even paranoid schizophrenics have enemies. -- William Gibson
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My problem is that all things are increasingly interesting to me -- William Gibson
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Lonny Zone stepped forward, tall and cadaverous, moving with the slow undersea grace of his addiction. -- William Gibson
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His smile was the nightmare in my back pocket.(Speaking about Ronald Reagan) -- William Gibson
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The concrete walls were overlaid with graffiti, years of them twisting into a single metascrawl of rage and frustration. -- William Gibson
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Media'?" "I guess so." "It was an artifact of relatively low connectivity. -- William Gibson
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A nation," he heard himself say, "consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual's morals are situational, that individual is without morals. If a nation's laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn't a nation. -- William Gibson
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Not that I know of. He had this idea that it was gone, sort of; not gone gone, but gone into everything, the whole matrix. Like it wasn't in cyberspace anymore, it just was. -- William Gibson
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Eras are conveniences, particularly for those who never experienced them. We carve history from totalities beyond our grasp. Bolt labels on the result. Handles. Then speak of the handles as though they were things in themselves. -- William Gibson
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We see in order to move; we move in order to see. -- William Gibson
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The future is not google-able. -- William Gibson
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She looks after him, feeling a wave of longing, loneliness. Not sexual particularly but to do with the nature of cities, the thousands of strangers you pass in a day, probably never to see again. -- William Gibson
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I'm interested in how people all over the world array themselves and go forth in the morning to do whatever they have to do to make a living. -- William Gibson
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I have already told you of the sickness and confusion that comes with time travelling. - H. G. WELLS -- William Gibson
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In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century. -- William Gibson
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Of data than of objects, seems a natural crossover figure in today's interface of British and Japanese cultures. I see it in the eyes of the Portobello dealers, and in the eyes of the Japanese collectors: -- William Gibson
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I very seldom compose anything in my head which later finds its way into text, except character names sometimes - I'm often very much inspired by things that I misunderstand. -- William Gibson
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ADVENTURE CAPITALISTS -- William Gibson
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I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary. -- William Gibson
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Stormin'," he said, like he was glad to note the world outside continuing on any recognizable course at all, however drastic. -- William Gibson
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THEY ATE LUNCH in a Mexican place called Dirty Is God. -- William Gibson
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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. -- William Gibson
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Was it Laurie Anderson who said that VR would never look real until they learned how to put some dirt in it? -- William Gibson
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My way through these small patches of virtual real-estate - or do I somehow imagine that I am performing some more dynamic function? The -- William Gibson
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No, she thought, not new; the old, the always, the now and ever was. -- William Gibson
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I try to be objective about technology. Agnostic, in a sense. Whatever personal opinions I form tend to have more to do with what we find to do with the new thing. -- William Gibson
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Which had a top layer of truth to it, but latticed, like the caramel on the cronuts. -- William Gibson
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He'd lived for so long on a constant edge of anxiety that he'd almost forgotten what real fear was. -- William Gibson