She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.
William Gibson[The currency of being celebrity] used to be only the elect had any manna in the information society and everyone else was a consumer.
William GibsonA graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.
William GibsonIt had also been my belief since I started writing fiction that science fiction is never really about the future. When science fiction is old, you can only read it as being pretty much about the moment in which it was written. But it seemed to me that the toolkit that science fiction had given me when I started working had become the toolkit of a kind of literary naturalism that could be applied to an inherently incredible present.
William Gibson