William Gibson quotes - page 4

The world hadn't ever had so many moving parts or so few labels. (William Gibson)
Neuro from the nerves, the silver paths. Romancer. Necromancer. View quote
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Wintermute was hive mind, decision maker, effecting change in the world outside. Neuromancer was personality. Neuromancer was immortality. View quote
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Everything to Fontaine, had a story. View quote
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A chorus of voices, the past alive in everything, that sea upon which the present tossed and rode. View quote
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The damage was minute, subtle, and utterly effective. View quote
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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 God. View quote
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Stand high long enough and your lightning will come. View quote
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A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and he'd still see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void... View quote
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You were hurt,” Kumiko said, looking at the scar. Sally looked down. "Yeah.” "Why don't you have it removed?” "Sometimes it's good to remember.” "Being hurt?” "Being stupid. View quote
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The lane to the land of the dead. (William Gibson)
If not for our excessive vanity and our over-active imaginations, novelists might be unusually difficult to deceive. View quote
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They were a traumatized lot, those boys. And I just felt frivolous. View quote
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Acceptance. Acceptance of the impermanence of being. View quote
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They damaged his nervous system with a wartime Russian mycotoxin. View quote
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They used their money to keep themselves out of the news. View quote
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There is always a point at which the terrorist ceases to manipulate the media gestalt. View quote
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On the most basic level, computers in my books are simply a metaphor for human memory: I'm interested in the hows and whys of memory, the ways it defines who and what we are, in how easily memory is subject to revision. View quote
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Beyond ego, beyond personality, beyond awareness, he moved. View quote
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Everything is different from now on. Something, something very fundamental has changed, here. View quote
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All I knew about the word "cyberspace" when I coined it, was that it seemed like an effective buzzword. (William Gibson)
Acceptance that this is not a rehearsal. That this is it. View quote
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Terrorism as we ordinarily understand it is innately media-related. View quote
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I'd buy him a drink, but I don't know if I'd loan him any money. View quote
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Another example - maybe a better one, in a way - was when it was confirmed that Michael Jackson was going to marry Elvis Presley's daughter. [loud, game-show buzzer noise] A good friend of mine in the States faxed me, and he simply ... he said, "This makes your job more difficult." And I knew exactly, I knew exactly what he meant. 'Cos something ... a scenario that seemed to belong to the universe of the late Terry Southern, was suddenly, suddenly real. It's that truth-is-stranger-than-fiction factor keeps getting jacked up on us on a fairly regular, maybe even exponential, basis. I think that's something peculiar to our time. I don't think our grandparents had to live with that. View quote
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