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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
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William Gibson
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 17
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His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol.
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Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.
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The future's here already. It's just unevenly distributed.
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If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.
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