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William Gibson
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 17
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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South Carolina
William Ford Gibson
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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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Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television.
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When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.
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The future is not Google-able.
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I very seldom compose anything in my head which later finds its way into text, except character names sometimes - I'm often very much inspired by things that I misunderstand.
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Part of the core of my system, is a way of trying to give the characters more control. If I'm practicing making up what the characters will do, it's never good. In fact, when I catch myself doing that, I try to get rid of that section, and try and let them start making the decisions.
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[The currency of being celebrity] used to be only the elect had any manna in the information society and everyone else was a consumer.
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Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?
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Our hardware is likely to turn into something like us a lot faster than we are likely to turn into something like our hardware...I very much doubt that our grandchildren will understand the distinction between that which is a computer and that which isn't.
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It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.
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People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet have a fully adult concept of scary.
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He took a duck in the face at 250 knots.
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Art Deco for me except in its most crazed and attenuated forms, it's jut a matter of taste.
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I have this prejudice that trilogies are long, three-volume novels.
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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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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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Genuinely ubiquitous computing spreads like warm Vaseline.
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That's something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applications turn up on a battlefield, or in a gallery.
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I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or MySpace. I've been involved anonymously in some tiny listservs, mainly in my ceaseless quest for random novelty, and sometimes while doing something that more closely resembles research.
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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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