William Gibson Quotes

If Skinner couldn't tell Fontaine a story about something, Fontaine would make up his own story, read function in the shape of something, read use in the way it was worn down. It seemed to comfort...

William Gibson

All Tomorrow's Parties‎ - 2003 - Vincent Black Lightning.

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They sat around accessing media all day and talking about it, and nothing ever seemed to get done.

William Gibson

All Tomorrow's Parties‎ - 2003 - Sharehouse.

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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

All Tomorrow's Parties‎ - 2003 - Formal Absences of Precious Things.

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The man steps past them, his cheeks seamed vertically in deep parentheses, as though it has been his habit frequently to smile. They do not see him smile. The Tao, he reminds himself, is older than...

William Gibson

All Tomorrow's Parties‎ - 2003 - Formal Absences of Precious Things.

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I didn't imagine that art girls in the Midwest would be flashing their tits in cyberspace...but I'm glad that they're doing it.

William Gibson

No Maps for These Territories - 1996 - Asked whether the Internet is how he imagined it would be.

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It will bring about the extinction of the nation-state as we know it... I think it will be as big a deal as the creation of cities.

William Gibson

No Maps for These Territories - 1996 - Referring to the Internet.

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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...

William Gibson

No Maps for These Territories - 1996.

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I became so frustrated with my inability to physically move the characters through the imaginary narrative space, that I actually developed an early form of imaginary VR technology that sort of...

William Gibson

No Maps for These Territories - 1996.

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Seated each afternoon in the darkened screening room, Halliday came to recognize the targeted numerals of the Academy leader as sigils preceding the dream state of a film.

William Gibson

No Maps for These Territories - 1996.

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I think of religions as franchise operations. Like chicken franchise operations. But that doesn't mean there's no chicken, right?

William Gibson

No Maps for These Territories - 1996 - Referring to his belief that it's possible for religions to help people.

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