430 Quotes by William Gibson

All we really have when we pretend to write about the future is the moment in which we are writing. That's why every imagined future obsoletes like an ice cream melting on the way back from the corner store.

We're living in a future that's weirder than anybody except possibly.

The street finds its own uses for things.

I find it interesting to see people - mostly people who are younger than I am - going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce things from an era that was far more physical, from a less virtual day.

Stand high long enough and your lightning will come.

I started with Apple, in a pre-Windows era when PCs seemed to involve more of a learning curve. But the fact that I'm yet to acquire so much as a single virus still seems a very good thing.

People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet have a fully adult concept of scary.

Occasionally if I look back at something I've written I'll find one of those that I don't understand, but that's a bad thing - the unconscious has dealt me a bad hand.

I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.