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He took a duck in the face at 250 knots. (William Gibson)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. View quote
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Time is money, but also money is money. View quote
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The present tense made him nervous. View quote
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There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul. View quote
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She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it. View quote
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To present a whole world that doesn't exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we're polymaths. That's just the act of all good writing. View quote
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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. View quote
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Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones. (William Gibson)
You needed a new pancreas. The one we bought for you frees you from a dangerous dependency.” "Thanks, but I was enjoying that dependency. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be. View quote
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Loss is not without its curious advantages for the artist. Major traumatic breaks are pretty common in the biographies of artists I respect. View quote
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All any drug amounts to is tweaking the incoming data. You have to be incredibly self-centered or pathetic to be satisfied with simply tweaking the incoming data. View quote
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The straight world didn't end. The straight world and the other world had bled into one another and produced the world that we live in today. View quote
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In the age of wooden television in the South where I grew up, leisure involved sitting on screened porches, smoking cigarettes, drinking iced tea, engaging in conversation, and staring into space. It might also involve fishing. Sometimes the Web does remind me of fishing. View quote
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I was born in 1948. I can't recall a world before television...Initially there was nothing on it but "snow,” and then the nightly advent of a targetlike device called "the test pattern,” which people actually gathered to watch. I imagine that the World Wide Web and its modest wonders are no more than the test pattern for whatever the twenty-first century will regard as its equivalent medium. View quote
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My first impulse, when presented with any spanking-new piece of computer hardware, is to imagine how it will look in ten years' time, gathering dust under a card table in a thrift shop. And it probably will. (William Gibson)
Vasopressin makes you remember, I mean really remember. Clinically they use the stuff to counter senile amnesia, but the street finds its own uses for things. View quote
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If I was looking to be depressed, I'd come to the right place. View quote
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There was coffee. Life would go on. View quote
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Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye. View quote
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