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The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.

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William Gibson
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 17
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Conway
South Carolina
William Ford Gibson
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Humans
Frozen
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Boxes
Boundaries
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Experience

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I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there, for me.
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I realized that everyone in Western society, in some weird way, believes that they've had the experience of producing feature films.
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I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is really, really poor! If you look at the whole history of science fiction, what people have said is going to happen, what writers have said is going to happen, and what actually happened - it's terrible.
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The street finds its own uses for things.
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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!
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That's one of my favorite things about Twitter: You can tweak your feed into a fabulous novelty engine. That's only one thing you can do with it, but it's one of the things I find most entertaining about it.
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To the extent that I can still believe in Bohemia, which I think is very important to me in some way that I don't yet really understand, to the extent that I still believe in that, I have to believe that there are viable degrees of freedom inherent if not realized in interstitial areas.
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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.
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I've never actually been a collector. I like the learning-curve, but I buy things, sell them to finance other things.
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I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.
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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.
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I probably had something to do with being southern. For some reason, over the last few years I've been much more conscious of that. It's probably because my friend Jack Womack has a thesis that he and I write the way we do because we're southern and we experienced the very tail end of the premeditated south.
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The prefix cyber is going the way of the prefix electro.
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Cyberspace is where you are when you're on the telephone.
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This perpetual toggling between nothing being new, under the sun, and everything having very recently changed, absolutely, is perhaps the central driving tension of my work.
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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.
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I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.
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I like living in Vancouver .It's more a matter of being a Vancouver loyalist. Harking back to what I said about growing up with the inherent violence in the southern U.S., I'm deeply enamoured of, and entirely used to living in a society with gun laws akin to those of a Scandinavian social democracy .It's a good thing.
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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.
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Enlightenment is being, and it grows it's end is serenity.
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