The future is already upon us, it is just unevenly distributed. William Gibson More Quotes by William Gibson More Quotes From William Gibson Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones. William Gibson cigarettephoneslanguage 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 technologyspecialfiction I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is really, really poor! If you look at the whole history of science fiction, what people have said is going to happen, what writers have said is going to happen, and what actually happened - it's terrible. William Gibson importantpeoplethinking We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition. William Gibson patternsrisklife 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 morallawdoe 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 namescharacterway Three in the morning. Making yourself a cup of coffee in the dark, using a flashlight when you pour the boiling water. William Gibson coffeedarkmorning It was hot, the night we burned Chrome. William Gibson chromehotnight 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 blade-runnerableway 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 designpaypeople 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 tryinglookspast 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 cuttingtakensleep A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged. William Gibson labelscareerstwo Addictions [...] started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn't seen, were fun. But came, through some gradual dire alchemy, to make decisions for you. Eventually, they were making your most crucial life-decisions. And they were [...] less intelligent than goldfish. William Gibson addictionintelligentfun I think the large part of the function of the Internet is it is archival. It's unreliable to the extent that word on the street is unreliable. It's no more unreliable than that. You can find the truth on the street if you work at it. I don't think of the Internet or the virtual as being inherently inferior to the so-called real. William Gibson internetrealthinking I like the idea of people who've had some success in one form secretly wanting to be something else; I have some of that myself. I look for it in other people who've established themselves in some particular art form, and then you find out that they really would like to design running shoes, or edit literary magazines or something. William Gibson shoesrunningart '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 peoplewaythinking The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be. William Gibson momentstimepast 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 stuffyearsthinking Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky. William Gibson darkskyhands
