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" Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality. "
William Gibson
Recognize
Age
Mortality
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" I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it. "
William Gibson
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List
" If you've read a lot of vintage science fiction, as I have at one time or another in my life, you can't help but realise how wrong we get it. I have gotten it wrong more times than I've gotten it right. But I knew that when I started; I knew that before I wrote a word of science fiction. "
William Gibson
My Life
Science
Help
" I was afraid to watch 'Blade Runner' in the theater because I was afraid the movie would be better than what I myself had been able to imagine. In a way, I was right to be afraid, because even the first few minutes were better. "
William Gibson
Way
Better
First
" Science fiction was one of those places, particularly during the McCarthy era, where you could write whatever you wanted because it was beneath contempt. They didn't bother censoring it. "
William Gibson
You
Science
Places
" Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. "
William Gibson
Technology
Nation
Children
" When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing. "
William Gibson
Idea
Writing
Direction
" The thing that 'Neuromancer' predicts as being actually like the Internet isn't actually like the Internet at all! "
William Gibson
Actually
Being
Internet
" 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
Change
Technology
History
" The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it. "
William Gibson
Time
Waste
Technology
" In a sense, if you're not getting it wrong really a lot when you're creating imaginary futures, then you're just not doing it enough. You're not creating enough imaginary futures. "
William Gibson
Wrong
Creating
Doing
" When I wrote 'Neuromancer', I had a list in my head of all the things the future was assumed to be which it would not be in the book I was about to write. In a sense, I intended 'Neuromancer', among other things, to be a critique of all the aspects of science fiction that no longer satisfied me. "
William Gibson
Sense
Head
Book
" My dream scenario would be that you could go into a bookshop, examine copies of every book in print that they're able to offer, then for a fee have them produce in a minute or two a beautiful finished copy in a dust jacket that you would pay for and take home. "
William Gibson
Copy
Dream
You
" I'm not a computer guy. I'm like an anthropologist. I'm fascinated with people's obsessions. I've learned to wear them. "
William Gibson
Computer
Them
Guy
" 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
You
Find
Internet
" I like the idea of people who've had some success in one form secretly wanting to be something else; I have some of that myself. I look for it in other people who've established themselves in some particular art form, and then you find out that they really would like to design running shoes, or edit literary magazines or something. "
William Gibson
Success
Art
Myself
" The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should really be considered. We have this industry in which we cut down trees to make the paper that we then use enormous amounts of electricity to turn into books that weigh a great deal and are then shipped enormous distances to point-of-sale retail. "
William Gibson
Impact
Think
Great
" I didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often been triumphalist and militaristic, a sort of folk propaganda for American exceptionalism. "
William Gibson
Science Fiction
Me
American
" 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
Future
Enough
Scary
" The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station. "
William Gibson
Dead
Color
Port
" Time moves in one direction, memory in another. "
William Gibson
Another
Time
Moves
" Occasionally if I look back at something I've written I'll find one of those that I don't understand, but that's a bad thing - the unconscious has dealt me a bad hand. "
William Gibson
Look
Find
Bad
" I'm always interested in the spooky repurposing of everyday things. "
William Gibson
Things
Spooky
Always
" 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
Me
Say
Attention
" '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. "
William Gibson
Cyber
People
Think
" And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human. "
William Gibson
She
Blue
Certainty
" I'm quite good friends with the putative director, Vincenzo Natali, and I'm a big fan of his work, but beyond that, I don't like to talk about other people's work work-in-progress. "
William Gibson
Like
People
Talk
" For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms. "
William Gibson
Dead
Heart
Out
" I'm interested in how people all over the world array themselves and go forth in the morning to do whatever they have to do to make a living. "
William Gibson
Morning
Living
World
" I started with Apple, in a pre-Windows era when PCs seemed to involve more of a learning curve. But the fact that I'm yet to acquire so much as a single virus still seems a very good thing. "
William Gibson
Single
More
Learning
" I read a great deal of science fiction with consummate pleasure between, say, the ages of 12 and 16. Then I got away from it. In my mid- to late 20s, I started trying to write it. "
William Gibson
Great
Late
Say