430 Quotes by William Gibson

I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.

The nature of emergent technology is, as Kevin Kelly once said, right out of control. It's an element of human evolution that's completely out of control. It's sort of driving itself, and I don't see it ceasing to do that.

I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.

Damien is a friend. Their boy-girl Lego doesn't click, he would say.

I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.

Our hardware is likely to turn into something like us a lot faster than we are likely to turn into something like our hardware...I very much doubt that our grandchildren will understand the distinction between that which is a computer and that which isn't.

If I write something set 60 years in the future, I am going to have to explain how humanity got there, and that's becoming quite a big job.

When I was a child, science fiction was the first source I've found for information. Science fiction was a very very low cultural stream in those days. It was completly below the radar and no one bothered to censurate it.

In the early '80s, I happened to find myself in the vicinity of people who would work for Microsoft five years later.