William Gibson Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.”

“It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.”

“For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.”

“I'm always interested in the spooky repurposing of everyday things.”

“I don't think nostalgia is a healthy modality. But nostalgia and a sense of history are not the same thing. Nostalgia is a dysfunction of the historical impulse, or a corruption of the historical impulse.”

“I'd always maintained that much of the anarchy and craziness of the early Internet had a lot to do with the fact that governments just hadn't realised it was there.”

“I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.”

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

“In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century.”

“I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.”