William Gibson Quotes About Internet

Quotes about: Internet

• The deadliest bullshit is odorless, and transparent.

  William Gibson

  Bullshit, Internet, Free Speech

• The 'Net is a waste of time.

  William Gibson

  Technology, Waste, Wasting Time

  "The Net Is a Waste of Time". The New York Times Magazine column, www.nytimes.com. July 14, 1996.

• 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.

  William Gibson

  Real, Thinking, Internet

• I'd always maintained that much of the anarchy and craziness of the early internet had a lot to do with the fact that governments just hadn't realised it was there.

  William Gibson

  Government, Anarchy, Facts

  "Tomorrow's man". Interview with Steven Poole, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2003.

• 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.

  William Gibson

  Knowing, Long, Tree

• Magazines in the traditional sense were aggregators of novelty. A good magazine was a lot of novelty, stuff you've never heard of before, clearly aggregated by people who have been able to travel further and dig deeper than you have been able to do. And that used to be really an important source of stuff for me. And now it is less important because the Internet has eaten it all up. But my Twitter feed as an aggregator of novelty is like... I don't know what I would do if it became any more powerful, I would have to start reining it in somehow.

  William Gibson

  Powerful, People, Important

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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