William Gibson
William Gibson
William Ford Gibsonis an American and Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were bleak, noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on humans—a "combination of lowlife and high tech"—and helped to create an iconography for the information age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 March 1948
CityConway, SC
CountryUnited States of America
William Gibson quotes about
Cyberspace was a consensual hallucination that felt and looked like a physical space but actually was a computer-generated construct representing abstract data.
Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.
I wanted to make room for antiheroes.
I'm quite good friends with the putative director, Vincenzo Natali, and I'm a big fan of his work, but beyond that, I don't like to talk about other people's work work-in-progress.
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination.
Cyberspace is where you are when you're on the telephone.
You needed a new pancreas. The one we bought for you frees you from a dangerous dependency.” “Thanks, but I was enjoying that dependency.
Somewhere, deep within her, surfaces a tiny clockwork submarine. There are times when you can only take the next step. And then another.
It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.
The future's here already. It's just unevenly distributed.
The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.
Upon arriving in the capital-F Future, we discover it, invariably, to be the lower-case now.
Enlightenment is "being," and it grows; it's end is serenity.