William Gibson

That's something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applications turn up on a battlefield, or in a gallery.

William Gibson

That’s what money will buy you, in America,” Brown had said, firmly. “People say Americans are materialistic. But do you know why?” “Why?” asked Pilgrim, more concerned with this uncharacteristically expansive mode of expression on Brown’s part. “Because they have better stuff,” Brown had replied. “No other reason.

William Gibson

The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.

William Gibson

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

William Gibson

The future is already here - it's just not evenly distributed.

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 distro

William Gibson

The future is there," Cayce hears herself say, "looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. And from where they are, the past behind us will look nothing at all like the past we imagine behind us now.

William Gibson

The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.

William Gibson

The heart is a muscle. You 'know' in your limbic system. The seat of instinct. The mammalian brain. Deeper, wider, beyond logic. That is where advertising works, not in the upstart cortex. What we think of as 'mind' is only a sort of jumped-up gland, piggybacking on the reptilian brain stem and the older, mammalian mind, but our culture tricks us into recognizing it as all consciousness. The mammalian spreads continent-wide beneath it, mute and muscular, attending its ancient agenda. And makes it buy things.

William Gibson

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