430 Quotes by William Gibson

Why were these giant projects so relatively common in Europe? He’d grown up with the unquestioned assumption that America was the home of heroic infrastructure, but was it, now? He didn’t think so. How did they pay for these things here? Taxes?

The future is already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed.

Everything, today, is to some extent the reflection of something else.

She is like a little safe, locked, that no one can open. Perhaps there is a treasure inside.

It was called dub, a sensuous mosaic cooked from vast libraries of digitalized pop; it was worship, Molly said, and a sense of community.

I was afraid to watch ‘Blade Runner’ in the theater because I was afraid the movie would be better than what I myself had been able to imagine. In a way, I was right to be afraid, because even the first few minutes were better.

I don’t begin a novel with a shopping list – the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.

If there’s a movie of Neuromancer, what I really want the special effects guys to do is make you see, from Case’s point of view, the little acid giggies: the little lines and trails coming off of things.

Wintermute was a simple cube of white light, that very simplicity suggesting extreme complexity.