American-born Canadian novelist William Gibson loves pulling at loose cultural threads to reveal novel concepts lying underneath it. An essayist, speculative fiction writer and novelist, Gibson is credited for pioneering the era of science fiction that earned him the title of 'cyberpunk'. Gibson began his writing career in 70s. Most of his works revolve around near-future stories, noir, the internet and how it would filter down to the lowest social strata. He has a crystal-clear opinion about the effect of computer networks, technology and cybernetics on humans. Needless to say, he has been right for most of the part. The Sprawl Trilogy, comprising of 'Neuromancer', 'Count Zero' and 'Mona Lisa Overdrive' is Gibson's vibrantly imagined allegory for the emerging new world. In this version, he planted the first seeds of globalised wealth disparity and technological rebellion that eventually transformed into a reality.Other than renovating scientific literature, Gibson is well-known for popularizing the concept of cyberspace through his works. The Bridge Triology, comprising of Virtual Light, Idoru and All Tomorrow's Parties focus on sociological development, late capitalism and post-industrial society following the events of 9/11 in America. Gibson fans, who've read Spook Country, Pattern Recognition and Zero History have termed him the mainstream bestseller of all times. As one of the most widely read sci-fi authors, William Gibson quotes are always bound to leave a lasting impression on us. In this list of his most popular quotes, In this short list, we've made a selection that will leave you speechless and ponder. Here are some mind-blowing quotes and sayings by William Gibson.
I think I'd probably tell you that it's easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is to accept the love and loyalty of the people closest to us.
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.
William Gibson
We see in order to move; we move in order to see.
William Gibson
Stand high long enough and your lightning will come.
We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition.
All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and still he'd see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void...
His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines.
William Gibson
There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.
She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.
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
´Wonderful´, the Flatline said,´I never did like to do anything simple when I could do it ass-backwards.´
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