I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is really, really poor! If you look at the whole history of science fiction, what people have said is going to happen, what writers have said is going to happen, and what actually happened - it's terrible.
William GibsonYou 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 GibsonWe are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.
William GibsonI started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.
William Gibson