One of the liberating effects of science fiction when I was a teenager was precisely its ability to tune me into all sorts of strange data and make me realize that I wasn’t as totally isolated in perceiving the world as being monstrous and crazy - William Gibson
The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. - William Gibson
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it. - William Gibson
Virtual Reality is like mainlining television. - William Gibson
His smile was the nightmare in my back pocket.(Speaking about Ronald Reagan) - William Gibson
The future is already here. It's just not evenly distributed yet. - William Gibson
The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.The Economist, December 4, 2003 - William Gibson
When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written. - William Gibson
Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye. - William Gibson
The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be. - William Gibson
People who were genuinely dangerous might not need to exhibit the fact at all, and that the ability to conceal a threat made them even more dangerous. - William Gibson
To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just the act of all good writing. - William Gibson
Mary Shelley may well have invented science fiction. I think she did! But after that it seemed to be a boys' game. - William Gibson