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William Gibson
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 17
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Conway
South Carolina
William Ford Gibson
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We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.
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Things aren't different. Things are things.
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I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is really, really poor! If you look at the whole history of science fiction, what people have said is going to happen, what writers have said is going to happen, and what actually happened - it's terrible.
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I've always assumed from the beginning that I had relatively few contemporaries among my readership. Not that I was consciously writing for a younger audience but that what I was doing interested a younger audience, or at least threatened them less.
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The prefix cyber is going the way of the prefix electro.
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We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition.
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I do not think an enormous permanent underclass is a very good thing to have if you're attempting to operate something that at least pretends sometimes to be a democracy.
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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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We monitor many frequencies. We listen always. Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty dub.
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The future's here already. It's just unevenly distributed.
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You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.
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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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I probably had something to do with being southern. For some reason, over the last few years I've been much more conscious of that. It's probably because my friend Jack Womack has a thesis that he and I write the way we do because we're southern and we experienced the very tail end of the premeditated south.
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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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I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.
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The future is already upon us, it is just unevenly distributed.
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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 was once really close to sitting down and having a conversation with a shadowy young woman who is reputed have become a millionaire by investing in Beanie Babies. She was someone that a couple people claimed to know, she seemed to exist, but she remained shadowy.
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His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol.
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When did it become necessary to explain what's so cool about Japan? Everyone was quite obsessed with it 15 years ago. I suppose it's the only Asian country that developed an imaginary entree to me. That's why I go back.
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