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Letter "W" » William Gibson Quotes
«Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?»
Author: William Gibson
| About:
Software
| Keywords:
alphabet, alphabets, fee, license, licensing, licensing fee, software
«Cyberspace was a consensual hallucination that felt and looked like a physical space but actually was a computer-generated construct representing abstract data.»
Author: William Gibson
| Keywords:
consensual, construct, cyberspace, data, generated, hallucination, hallucinations, representing
«A graphic representation of data abstracted from the 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.»
Author: William Gibson
| Keywords:
abstracted, Banks, clustered, clusters, computer system, constellation, constellations, graphic, graphics, ranged, recede, recedes, receding, representation
«I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.»
Author: William Gibson
«The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.»
«I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.»
Author: William Gibson
«Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.»
Author: 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. '1984' is really about 1948. It can't really be understood outside the historical context of 1948.»
Author: William Gibson
«Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.»
Author: William Gibson
| About:
Generations
«The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.»
Author: William Gibson
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