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William Gibson


American
March 17, 1948
Writer
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The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.


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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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.


William Gibson
The thing that 'Neuromancer' predicts as being actually like the Internet isn't actually like the Internet at all!
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The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.


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When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing.


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The people I hang out with tend to use Macs, not that I think they're necessarily superior.


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I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.


William Gibson
I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.
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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
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
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.
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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
A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.
William Gibson
Tags: Like Every Human
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
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
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
Tags: Science Very Want