430 Quotes by William Gibson

The future is not google-able.

There is always a point at which the terrorist ceases to manipulate the media gestalt. A point at which the violence may well escalate, but beyond which the terrorist has become symptomatic of the media gestalt itself. Terrorism as we ordinarily understand it is innately media-related.

I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.

I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.

The future is already upon us, it is just unevenly distributed.

In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century.

Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.

I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or MySpace. I've been involved anonymously in some tiny listservs, mainly in my ceaseless quest for random novelty, and sometimes while doing something that more closely resembles research.

The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future.