430 Quotes by William Gibson

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.

"Cyberspace is everting." It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state.

I assume that - because you can get degrees in journalism from very reputable universities - I assume that people can be trained to be journalists. I've never been entirely certain that anyone can be trained to be a novelist in the same way.

I don't always like writing, but I very much like having written.

If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything.

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description.

I try to be objective about technology. Agnostic, in a sense. Whatever personal opinions I form tend to have more to do with what we find to do with the new thing.

The future's here already. It's just unevenly distributed.

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.