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Secrets...are the very root of cool.

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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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Cyberspace is where you are when you're on the telephone.
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All we really have when we pretend to write about the future is the moment in which we are writing. That's why every imagined future obsoletes like an ice cream melting on the way back from the corner store.
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The future is already upon us, it is just unevenly distributed.
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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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The future's here already. It's just unevenly distributed.
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The 'Net is a waste of time.
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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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Somehow I think that if Toronto had been forced to wait a decade [from 80th], it would be a better looking city.
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Tim Powers is a brilliant writer.
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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.
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The nature of emergent technology is, as Kevin Kelly once said, right out of control. It's an element of human evolution that's completely out of control. It's sort of driving itself, and I don't see it ceasing to do that.
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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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I don't always like writing, but I very much like having written.
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If I were in severely straitened socio-economic circumstances and had to move to the U.S., I'd probably opt for Athens, GA, or Lawrence, KS. As boho guys usually do, live cheap in the Left Bank of Kansas.
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If someone comes in and says, What are you doing, if I'm honest, the answer is, I don't know. But I'm doing THIS, don't know why.
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I'm a really good eavesdropper. I listen to what people say and remember all the buzzwords.
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Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others
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[I've gone to big stadium rock concerts at some artist's invitation], and eventually you find yourself in the room with the Radiant Being around whom all this is revolving. It's very bizarre, and it's quasi-religious, or possibly genuinely religious. Spooky. It's a spooky and interesting thing.
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I've become convinced that nostalgia is a fundamentally unhealthy modality. When you see it, it's usually attached to something else that's really, seriously bad. I don't traffic in nostalgia. We're becoming a global culture.
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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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