William Gibson Quotes - Page 7

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• I only go to Japan when there's someone who can afford to bring me there, and consequently I may never go again!

  William Gibson

  Japan, May

  Source: craphound.com

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• I'd always maintained that much of the anarchy and craziness of the early internet had a lot to do with the fact that governments just hadn't realised it was there.

  William Gibson

  Government, Anarchy, Facts

  "Tomorrow's man". Interview with Steven Poole, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2003.

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• I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or MySpace. I've been involved anonymously in some tiny listservs, mainly in my ceaseless quest for random novelty, and sometimes while doing something that more closely resembles research.

  William Gibson

  Media, Quests, Tiny

  "William Gibson Talks Zero History, Paranoia and the Awesome Power of Twitter". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. September 7, 2010.

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• I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.

  William Gibson

  Living My Life, Good Things, Novel

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

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• You can get in a cab in Vancouver and the 20-year-old driver speaks more knowingly of Michael Ovitz than anyone in the industry. They just know! And it's perhaps not unhealthy.

  William Gibson

  Years, Vancouver, Speak

  Source: craphound.com

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• The nature of emergent technology is, as Kevin Kelly once said, right out of control. It's an element of human evolution that's completely out of control. It's sort of driving itself, and I don't see it ceasing to do that.

  William Gibson

  Technology, Elements, Kevin

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

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• Damien is a friend. Their boy-girl Lego doesn't click, he would say.

  William Gibson

  Girl, Boys, Legos

  William Gibson (2003). “Pattern Recognition”, p.8, Penguin

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• There's an idea called "gray man", in the security business, that I find interesting. They teach people to dress unobtrusively. Chinos instead of combat pants, and if you really need the extra pockets, a better design conceals them. They assume, actually, that the bad guys will shoot all the guys wearing combat pants first, just to be sure.

  William Gibson

  Men, Ideas, Interesting

  Source: www.heddels.com

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• Twitter is the only brand of social media that I have ever taken to at all. I like the feeling of having my perception of the world expanded daily, 24/7, by being able to monitor the reactions of 100-and-some people throughout the world that I personally follow so I have some sense of who they are. There has never really been anything like that before, at least in terms of the digestible 140-character bandwidth that Twitter is based on. I am able to wake up, open Twitter, and sort of glance across the psychic state of the planet.

  William Gibson

  Taken, People, Feelings

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• 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

  Dream, Jobs, Work

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• What strikes me about Toronto is that Toronto's great misfortune was to have too much money in the late 70s and early 80s, and consequently, it built in the style of those periods, which is hideous.

  William Gibson

  Style, Toronto, Too Much

  Source: craphound.com

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• A lot of the buildings [in Toronto] around Yonge and Bloor is the architectural equivalent of Kipper Ties and 8" collar points. It's ghastly and no amount of street-level retail glitz can lift it.

  William Gibson

  Ties, Retail, Toronto

  Source: craphound.com

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• '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

  Thinking, People, Way

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

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• [I've gone to big stadium rock concerts at some artist's invitation], and eventually you find yourself in the room with the Radiant Being around whom all this is revolving. It's very bizarre, and it's quasi-religious, or possibly genuinely religious. Spooky. It's a spooky and interesting thing.

  William Gibson

  Religious, Artist, Rocks

  Source: craphound.com

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• I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.

  William Gibson

  Ideas, People, Traditional

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• I think that the collectible ephemera craze/awareness is probably driven by a reverse market, rebounding off the sense of everything being mass-produced. It's the last step you take in trying to find something unique.

  William Gibson

  Unique, Thinking, Trying

  Source: craphound.com

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• I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.

  William Gibson

  Strong, Book, Writing

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

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• I'm a really good eavesdropper. I listen to what people say and remember all the buzzwords.

  William Gibson

  People, Remember

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• I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.

  William Gibson

  Fiction, Feels, Qualified

  Interview with Amy Cavanaugh, www.avclub.com. October 14, 2011.

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• It seems as though everyone is going to the currency of celebrity. Everyone's getting their own account of whatever that currency is. That's something neat.

  William Gibson

  Currency, Neat, Accounts

  Source: craphound.com

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• Art Deco for me except in its most crazed and attenuated forms, it's jut a matter of taste.

  William Gibson

  Art, Matter, Taste

  Source: craphound.com

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• We monitor many frequencies. We listen always. Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty dub.

  William Gibson

  Voice, Tongue, Babel

  William Gibson (2000). “Neuromancer”, p.96, Penguin

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• Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm.

  William Gibson

  New York, Lag, Towns

  William Gibson (2003). “Pattern Recognition”, p.8, Penguin

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• Somehow I think that if Toronto had been forced to wait a decade [from 80th], it would be a better looking city.

  William Gibson

  Thinking, Cities, Waiting

  Source: craphound.com

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• The future is here - it just has not been uniformly distributed.

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