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We live in an age of seriously crap mass clothing. They've made a science of it.
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William Gibson
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 17
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William Ford Gibson
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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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When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.
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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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There are bits of the literal future right here, right now, if you know how to look for them.
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We're living in a future that's weirder than anybody except possibly.
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I have this prejudice that trilogies are long, three-volume novels.
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If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything.
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Somewhere, deep within her, surfaces a tiny clockwork submarine. There are times when you can only take the next step. And then another.
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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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We see in order to move we move in order to see.
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To the very limited extent that I have a political consciousness, to some extent I'm a lazy, apolitical sort of guy that just flits around.
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'Cyberspace' as a term is sort of over. It's over in the way that, after a certain time, people stopped using the suffix '-electro' to make things cool, because everything was electrical. 'Electro' was all over the early 20th century, and now it's gone. I think 'cyber' is sort of the same way.
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When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written.
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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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The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.
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Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky.
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