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William Gibson
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 17
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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South Carolina
William Ford Gibson
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There's an idea called gray man, in the security business, that I find interesting. They teach people to dress unobtrusively. Chinos instead of combat pants, and if you really need the extra pockets, a better design conceals them. They assume, actually, that the bad guys will shoot all the guys wearing combat pants first, just to be sure.
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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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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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Time is money, but also money is money.
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The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
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The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.
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You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.
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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 is already upon us, it is just unevenly distributed.
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The prefix cyber is going the way of the prefix electro.
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It's an American thing, but it's particularly a southern thing, and its romanticization is hyper-Southern. And it's still irresistible to me, even in middle age. There's something that pulls me to that, but at the same time, I have this increasing awareness of how banal it really is - that evil is inherently banal.
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When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.
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I don't generate a storyline and then fill it out in the course of writing. The story actually generates in the course of the writing. It's one of the reasons I've never been comfortable doing screenplays, because in order to get the contract for the screenplay, you have to sit down and tell them what's going to happen.
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I think the large part of the function of the Internet is it is archival. It's unreliable to the extent that word on the street is unreliable. It's no more unreliable than that. You can find the truth on the street if you work at it. I don't think of the Internet or the virtual as being inherently inferior to the so-called real.
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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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A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response.
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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'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 buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there, for me.
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When I was first writing about Japan, it was at the peak of the Bubble. Bubble popped, but they kept on going. Japanese street style feeds American iconics back into America in somewhat the way English rock once fed American blues back into America.
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