I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it. William Gibson More Quotes by William Gibson More Quotes From William Gibson Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. William Gibson cyberspacetechnologychildren Our hardware is likely to turn into something like us a lot faster than we are likely to turn into something like our hardware...I very much doubt that our grandchildren will understand the distinction between that which is a computer and that which isn't. William Gibson grandchildrencomputerdoubt 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 knowingtreelong Japan had a more radical experience of future shock than any other nation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. They were this feudal place, locked in the past, but then they bought the whole Industrial Revolution kit from England, blew their cultural brains out with it, became the first industrialized Asian nation, tried to take over their side of the world, got nuked by the United States for their trouble, and discovered Steve McQueen! Their take on iconic menswear emerges from that matrix. William Gibson japanbrainpast There is always a point at which the terrorist ceases to manipulate the media gestalt. A point at which the violence may well escalate, but beyond which the terrorist has become symptomatic of the media gestalt itself. Terrorism as we ordinarily understand it is innately media-related. William Gibson gestaltmediamay We're living in a future that's weirder than anybody except possibly. William Gibson 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 tryingpeopleinteresting 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 causessometimesway I like living in Vancouver .It's more a matter of being a Vancouver loyalist. Harking back to what I said about growing up with the inherent violence in the southern U.S., I'm deeply enamoured of, and entirely used to living in a society with gun laws akin to those of a Scandinavian social democracy .It's a good thing. William Gibson growing-upgunlaw 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 saddenedtechnologyjobs You know what your trouble is? You're the kind who always reads the handbook. Anything people build, any kind of technology, it's going to have some specific purpose. It's for doing something that somebody already understands. But if it's new technology, it'll open areas nobody's ever thought of before. You read the manual, man, and you won't play around with it, not the same way. And you get all funny when somebody else uses it to do something you never thought of. William Gibson technologyplaymen 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 titlesjobspeople 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 listsstrongamerica Upon arriving in the capital-F Future, we discover it, invariably, to be the lower-case now. William Gibson arrivingcases Things aren't different. Things are things. William Gibson different-thingsdifferentlife I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything. I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there for me. I knew where the magnets were, behind the gyprock, and the magnets were very powerful. I think they had to be powerful for me, otherwise the reader wouldn't have a reciprocal experience. William Gibson layerspowerfulthinking The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. William Gibson make-sensetryingfiction Secrets...are the very root of cool. William Gibson secretroots Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old. William Gibson generationsmeanyears Magazines in the traditional sense were aggregators of novelty. A good magazine was a lot of novelty, stuff you've never heard of before, clearly aggregated by people who have been able to travel further and dig deeper than you have been able to do. And that used to be really an important source of stuff for me. And now it is less important because the Internet has eaten it all up. But my Twitter feed as an aggregator of novelty is like... I don't know what I would do if it became any more powerful, I would have to start reining it in somehow. William Gibson powerfulimportantpeople
