William Gibson Quotes - Page 3

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• I don't generate a storyline and then fill it out in the course of writing. The story actually generates in the course of the writing. It's one of the reasons I've never been comfortable doing screenplays, because in order to get the contract for the screenplay, you have to sit down and tell them what's going to happen.

  William Gibson

  Writing, Order, Down And

  Interview with Zack Handlen, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2010.

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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

  Knowing, Long, Tree

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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

  Next Steps, Submarines, Tiny

  William Gibson (2003). “Pattern Recognition”, p.106, Penguin

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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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

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• The 'Net is a waste of time.

  William Gibson

  Technology, Waste, Wasting Time

  "The Net Is a Waste of Time". The New York Times Magazine column, www.nytimes.com. July 14, 1996.

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• [The currency of being celebrity] used to be only the elect had any manna in the information society and everyone else was a consumer.

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  Information, Currency, Used

  Source: craphound.com

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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

  Jobs, Technology, Saddened

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. August 22, 2007.

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• Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others

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  Mind, Vision, Fiction

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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

  Children, Fiction, Information

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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

  People, Interesting, Trying

  Interview with Zack Handlen, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2010.

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• I have friends who go [Tokyo] frequently on business, and it sounds interesting. I've heard that they have for the first time serious drug problems.

  William Gibson

  Interesting, Drug, Sound

  Source: craphound.com

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• 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

  Technology, Men, Play

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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

  Thinking, Giving, Fiction

  "William Gibson on Twitter, Antique Watches and Internet Obsessions". Interview with Geeta Dayal, www.wired.com. September 14, 2012.

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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

  Memories, Culture, Fifteen

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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

  Strong, America, Lists

  Interview with Zack Handlen, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2010.

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• 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 Up, Gun, Law

  Source: craphound.com

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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

  Character, Names, Way

  "William Gibson: I really can’t predict the future". Interview with Mike Doherty, www.salon.com. January 22, 2012.

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• Home. Home was BAMA, the Sprawl, the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis. Program a map to display frequency of data exchange, every thousand megabytes a single pixel on a very large screen. Manhattan and Atlanta burn solid white. Then they start to pulse, the rate of traffic threatening to overload your simulation. Your map is about to go nova. Cool it down. Up your scale. Each pixel a million megabytes. At a hundred million megabytes per second, you begin to make out certain blocks in midtown Manhattan, outlines of hundred-year-old industrial parks ringing the old core of Atlanta.

  William Gibson

  Block, Home, White

  William Gibson (2016). “Neuromancer”, p.35, Hachette UK

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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

  Jobs, People, Titles

  William Gibson (2003). “Idoru”, p.51, Penguin

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• 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

  Powerful, Thinking, Layers

  "William Gibson Globe and Mail Story". Interview with Cory Doctorow, craphound.com. November 23, 1999.

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• In effect, I grew up in a sort of timewarp, a place where times are scrambled up. There are elements of my childhood that look to me now, in memory more like the 1940s or the 1950s than the 1960s. Jack [Womack] says that that made us science fiction writers, because we grew up experiencing a kind of time travel.

  William Gibson

  Memories, Childhood, Looks

  Source: craphound.com

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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.

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  Writing, Would Be, Fiction

  "The cyberpunk arrives at the present" by Adam Dunn, www.cnn.com. February 4, 2003.

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• I realized that everyone in Western society, in some weird way, believes that they've had the experience of producing feature films.

  William Gibson

  Believe, Way, Film

  Source: craphound.com

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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.

  William Gibson

  Lying, Writing, Vanity

  William Gibson @GreatDismal, twitter.com. May 31, 2009.

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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

  Culture, Becoming, Nostalgia

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