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His smile was the nightmare in my back pocket.(Speaking about Ronald Reagan)

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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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The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should really be considered. We have this industry in which we cut down trees to make the paper that we then use enormous amounts of electricity to turn into books that weigh a great deal and are then shipped enormous distances to point-of-sale retail.
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Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination.
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A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.
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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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She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.
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We're living in a future that's weirder than anybody except possibly.
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The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
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I wanted to make room for antiheroes.
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Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.
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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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Three in the morning. Making yourself a cup of coffee in the dark, using a flashlight when you pour the boiling water.
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Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.
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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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We don't legislate emergent technologies into existence. We almost never do. They just emerge, dragged forth by Adam Smith's invisible hand. Then we have to see what people are actually going to do with them, and try to legislate to take account of that.
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It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.
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In effect, I grew up in a sort of timewarp, a place where times are scrambled up. There are elements of my childhood that look to me now, in memory more like the 1940s or the 1950s than the 1960s. Jack [Womack] says that that made us science fiction writers, because we grew up experiencing a kind of time travel.
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Upon arriving in the capital-F Future, we discover it, invariably, to be the lower-case now.
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What we're doing pop culturally is like burning the rain forest. The biodiversity of pop culture is really, really in danger.
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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.
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For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.
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