430 Quotes by William Gibson

I’ve become convinced that nostalgia is a fundamentally unhealthy modality. When you see it, it’s usually attached to something else that’s really, seriously bad. I don’t traffic in nostalgia. We’re becoming a global culture.

I think with one exception I’ve never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.

Are you familiar with the strategic concept of competitive control areas?” Ash asked. “Yes,” Stets said.

I can’t imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.

Encryption isn’t optional, when we address one another,” she said.

The men in bars, who explain every dark secret of this world, Tito, have you noticed, no secret requires more than three drinks to explain. Who killed the Kennedys? Three drinks. America’s real motive in Iraq? Three drinks. The three-drink answers can never contain the truth. The.

Freeside is Las Vegas and the hanging gardens of Babylon, an orbital Geneva and home to a family inbred and most carefully refined, the industrial clan of Tessier and Ashpool.

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.

What Shaylene saw as Burton’s primary symptom of traumatic stress, Flynne thought, was his ongoing failure to ask her out.