I have always been intensely uncomfortable with the idea of a science fiction writer as prophet. Not that there haven't been science fiction writers who think of themselves as having some sort of prophetic role, but when I think of that, I always think of H.G. Wells - he would think of what was going to happen, and he would imagine how it would happen, and then he would create a fiction to illustrate the idea that he'd had. And no part of my process has ever resembled that at all.
William GibsonFor 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 GibsonCyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.
William GibsonWe 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 GibsonI buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there, for me.
William Gibson"Cyberspace is everting." It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state.
William Gibson[When] Johnny Mnemonic was coming out and I realized that all the kids that worked in 7-11 knew more - or thought they knew more - about feature film production than I did. And that was from reading Premiere, that was from this change that came from magazines that treat their readers as players. Magazines that purport to sell you the inside experience.
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