William Gibson Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.

  William Gibson

  Time, Past, Moments

  William Gibson (2000). “All Tomorrow's Parties”, Ace Trade

• The future is there," Cayce hears herself say, "looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. And from where they are, the past behind us will look nothing at all like the past we imagine behind us now.

  William Gibson

  Past, Trying, Looks

  William Gibson (2003). “Pattern Recognition”, p.54, Penguin

• Japan had a more radical experience of future shock than any other nation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. They were this feudal place, locked in the past, but then they bought the whole Industrial Revolution kit from England, blew their cultural brains out with it, became the first industrialized Asian nation, tried to take over their side of the world, got nuked by the United States for their trouble, and discovered Steve McQueen! Their take on iconic menswear emerges from that matrix.

  William Gibson

  Past, Japan, Brain

  Source: www.heddels.com

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