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The street finds its own uses for things.
William Gibson
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William Gibson
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 17
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Science Fiction Writer
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South Carolina
William Ford Gibson
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I'm interested in people who become culturally fluent. And when I meet young people I'm often amazed they don't quite seem to have a sense of where they're from. They're like the citizens of the airport.
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One of the liberating effects of science fiction when I was a teenager was precisely its ability to tune me into all sorts of strange data and make me realize that I wasn’t as totally isolated in perceiving the world as being monstrous and crazy
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The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great length.
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I suppose I do the Japanese because I just don't know China. Chinese popular culture has never evoked that instant of, Whoah! What's that? that I have with Japanese popular culture.
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If there's a movie of Neuromancer, what I really want the special effects guys to do is make you see, from Case's point of view, the little acid giggies: the little lines and trails coming off of things.
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The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.
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Secrets...are the very root of cool.
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There are bits of the literal future right here, right now, if you know how to look for them.
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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.
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I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.
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The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
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To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable.
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Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world. I think that our grandchildren will probably regard the distinction we make between what we call the real world and what they think of as simply the world as the quaintest and most incomprehensible thing about us.
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Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television.
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The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.
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I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. I actually tend to suspect that in real life, there have always been very strong female characters, but at certain stages of society, they've been asked to cool it.
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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 think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.
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The Internet is part of this ongoing, species-long project we've been working on since we climbed down out of the trees in the savanna. We've been working on it without really knowing it.
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