William Gibson Quotes - Page 7

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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.

  William Gibson

  Writing, Readership, Audience

  Source: craphound.com

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• I look at [Toronto] and think well, perhaps my grandchildren will someday look at this stuff with the sort of appreciation I once held for Art Deco. Although I've come to find Art Deco quite creepy too.

  William Gibson

  Appreciation, Art, Grandchildren

  Source: craphound.com

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• I only go to Japan when there's someone who can afford to bring me there, and consequently I may never go again!

  William Gibson

  Japan, May

  Source: craphound.com

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• 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.

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• I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or MySpace. I've been involved anonymously in some tiny listservs, mainly in my ceaseless quest for random novelty, and sometimes while doing something that more closely resembles research.

  William Gibson

  Media, Quests, Tiny

  "William Gibson Talks Zero History, Paranoia and the Awesome Power of Twitter". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. September 7, 2010.

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• I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.

  William Gibson

  Living My Life, Good Things, Novel

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. August 22, 2007.

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• The nature of emergent technology is, as Kevin Kelly once said, right out of control. It's an element of human evolution that's completely out of control. It's sort of driving itself, and I don't see it ceasing to do that.

  William Gibson

  Technology, Elements, Kevin

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. August 22, 2007.

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• You can get in a cab in Vancouver and the 20-year-old driver speaks more knowingly of Michael Ovitz than anyone in the industry. They just know! And it's perhaps not unhealthy.

  William Gibson

  Years, Vancouver, Speak

  Source: craphound.com

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• Damien is a friend. Their boy-girl Lego doesn't click, he would say.

  William Gibson

  Girl, Boys, Legos

  William Gibson (2003). “Pattern Recognition”, p.8, Penguin

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• Twitter is the only brand of social media that I have ever taken to at all. I like the feeling of having my perception of the world expanded daily, 24/7, by being able to monitor the reactions of 100-and-some people throughout the world that I personally follow so I have some sense of who they are. There has never really been anything like that before, at least in terms of the digestible 140-character bandwidth that Twitter is based on. I am able to wake up, open Twitter, and sort of glance across the psychic state of the planet.

  William Gibson

  Taken, People, Feelings

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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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.

  William Gibson

  Men, Ideas, Interesting

  Source: www.heddels.com

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• Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.

  William Gibson

  Dream, Jobs, Work

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• Gadgets are usually the last thing I think about, and if there's something new, I'll get to the store for the final shipment of the first generation when it's on sale. So I have last year's stuff.

  William Gibson

  Thinking, Years, Stuff

  Interview with Amy Cavanaugh, www.avclub.com. October 14, 2011.

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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.

  William Gibson

  Thinking, Cities, Waiting

  Source: craphound.com

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• I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.

  William Gibson

  Writing, Autism, Known

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• Art Deco for me except in its most crazed and attenuated forms, it's jut a matter of taste.

  William Gibson

  Art, Matter, Taste

  Source: craphound.com

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• For me, the melancholy of the late XXth Century is walking late at night by the Mont Blanc pen store and seeing these things always strike me as simulacra of luxury items. They seem like fakes.

  William Gibson

  Night, Luxury, Fake

  Source: craphound.com

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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.

  William Gibson

  Baby, Couple, People

  Source: craphound.com

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• I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.

  William Gibson

  Strong, Book, Writing

  Interview with Zack Handlen, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2010.

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• I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything.

  William Gibson

  Thinking, Written

  Source: craphound.com

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• As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically induced social change. I roam up and down it in a kind of special way because I roam down it into history, which is invariably itself a speculative affair.

  William Gibson

  Technology, Special, Fiction

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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.

  William Gibson

  Country, Japan, Years

  Source: craphound.com

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• I suppose I do the Japanese because I just don't know China. Chinese popular culture has never evoked that instant of, "Whoah! What's that?" that I have with Japanese popular culture.

  William Gibson

  Chinese, Culture, China

  Source: craphound.com

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• The street has its own use for things.

  William Gibson

  Use, Streets

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• If someone comes in and says, "What are you doing," if I'm honest, the answer is, "I don't know. But I'm doing THIS, don't know why."

  William Gibson

  Answers, Honest, Knows

  Source: craphound.com

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