430 Quotes by William Gibson

In Heathrow a vast chunk of memory detached itself from a blank bowl of airport sky and fell on him. He vomited into a blue plastic canister without breaking stride.

She is increasingly of the opinion that worrying about problems doesn't help solve them, but she hasn't really found an alternative yet. Surely you can't just leave them there.

Whose apartment is this?”“Marisa’s. I told you.

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

Power, in Case's world, meant corporate power. The zaibatsus, the multinationals that shaped the course of human history, had transcended old barriers. Viewed as organisms, they had attained a kind of immortality. You couldn't kill a zaibatsu by assassinating a dozen key executives; there were others waiting to step up the ladder, assume the vacated position, access the vast banks of corporate memory...

Rain woke him, a slow drizzle, his feet tangled in coils of discarded fiberoptics. The arcade's sea of sound washed over him, receded, returned. Rolling over, he sat up and held his head.

When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

the mall crowds swaying like wind-blown grass, a field of flesh shot through with sudden eddies of need and gratification

Was it Laurie Anderson who said that VR would never look real until they learned how to put some dirt in it?