William Gibson Men Quotations

Enlightenment is "being," and it grows; it's end is serenity.

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.

She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.

Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.

The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.

You know what your trouble is? You're the kind who always reads the handbook. Anything people build, any kind of technology, it's going to have some specific purpose. It's for doing something that somebody already understands. But if it's new technology, it'll open areas nobody's ever thought of before. You read the manual, man, and you won't play around with it, not the same way. And you get all funny when somebody else uses it to do something you never thought of.

The nature of emergent technology is, as Kevin Kelly once said, right out of control. It's an element of human evolution that's completely out of control. It's sort of driving itself, and I don't see it ceasing to do that.

We were presented with enough evidence for an indictment to be issued,

We see in order to move; we move in order to see.