“The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.”
― William Gibson
“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed."
― William Gibson
“When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.”
― William Gibson
“Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.”
― William Gibson
“We see in order to move; we move in order to see.”
― William Gibson
“Stand high long enough and your lightning will come.”
― William Gibson
“The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.”
― William Gibson
“Things aren't different. Things are things.”
― William Gibson
“Time is money, but also money is money.”
― William Gibson
“When the past is always with you, it may as well be present; and if it is present, it will be future as well.”
― William Gibson
“Time moves in one direction, memory in another.”
― William Gibson
“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.”
― William Gibson
“We have sealed ourselves away behind our money, growing inward, generating a seamless universe of self.”
― William Gibson
“Eras are conveniences, particularly for those who never experienced them. We carve history from totalities beyond our grasp. Bolt labels on the result. Handles. Then speak of the handles as though they were things in themselves.”
― William Gibson
“Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others”
― William Gibson
"People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet have a fully adult concept of scary."
― William Gibson
"I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil."
― William Gibson
"The deadliest bullshit is odorless, and transparent."
― William Gibson
"The future is not Google-able."
― William Gibson
"If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not."
― William Gibson
"I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary."
― William Gibson
"My problem is that all things are increasingly interesting to me."
― William Gibson
"Sometimes, I feel like a time traveller, cause the only way that we can really travel in time is just to get older."
― William Gibson
"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
"Upon arriving in the capital-F Future, we discover it, invariably, to be the lower-case now."
― William Gibson
"I watch for emergent technologies and pay attention to what people say they'll be good for, then see what we actually use them for. It never occurred to me that a tiny telephone with a wireless transceiver would do whatever it is that it's done to us."
― William Gibson
"Our hardware is likely to turn into something like us a lot faster than we are likely to turn into something like our hardware...I very much doubt that our grandchildren will understand the distinction between that which is a computer and that which isn't."
― William Gibson
"I think science fiction gives us a wonderful toolkit to disassemble and reexamine this kind of incomprehensible, constantly changing present that we live in, that we often live in quite uncomfortably."
― William Gibson
"Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones."
― William Gibson
"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."
― William Gibson