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William Gibson
Science Fiction author
Verified
- "The NET is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it." (July 14, 1996)
- Source: Name of article he wrote for 'New York Times Magazine'
- See also: more quotes about the Internet
Attributed
- "The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet."
- Notes: Full quote is "As I've said many times, the future is already here. It's just not very evenly distributed." and was said during the NOV. 30 1999 interview on NPR See this page
- See also: more quotes about the Future
Neuromancer (1984)
- "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
- "A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and he'd still see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void....The Sprawl was a long strange way home over the Pacific now, and he was no console man, no cyberspace cowboy. Just another hustler, trying to make it through. But the dreams came on in the Japanese night like livewire voodoo, and he'd cry for it, cry in his sleep, and wake alone in the dark, curled in his capsule in some coffin hotel, his hands clawed into the bedslab, temperfoam bunched between his fingers, trying to reach the console that wasn't there."
- "Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding..."
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