Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.
William Gibson
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
William Gibson
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 17
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Conway
South Carolina
William Ford Gibson
Enough
Writing
Scar
Like
Scary
People
Survival
Present
Pretty
Future
Write
More quotes by William Gibson
I don't always like writing, but I very much like having written.
William Gibson
I realized that everyone in Western society, in some weird way, believes that they've had the experience of producing feature films.
William Gibson
I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.
William Gibson
Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description.
William Gibson
Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.
William Gibson
I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.
William Gibson
When did it become necessary to explain what's so cool about Japan? Everyone was quite obsessed with it 15 years ago. I suppose it's the only Asian country that developed an imaginary entree to me. That's why I go back.
William Gibson
I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there, for me.
William Gibson
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
I'm not a very intentional writer. I try to be as unintentional as possible. What I basically try to do is invite the zeitgeist in to tea.
William Gibson
The 'Net is a waste of time.
William Gibson
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
Some people dote on contemplating disasters.
William Gibson
The Simpson's in Piccadilly has been turned into the largest bookstore in all of Europe! How can they fill it? All of these purpose-built Borders and Chapters and every new mall that goes up has a giant chain bookstore with a purpose-built author reading space, whoah, what's gong on there.
William Gibson
A nation,” he heard himself say, “consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual’s morals are situational, that individual is without morals. If a nation’s laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn’t a nation.
William Gibson
The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.
William Gibson
The future is already upon us, it is just unevenly distributed.
William Gibson
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.
William Gibson
The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.
William Gibson
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
