The best Quotes from Neuromancer

When the past is always with you, it may as well be present; and if it is present, it will be future as well.

We have sealed ourselves away behind our money, growing inward, generating a seamless universe of self.

Night City was like a deranged experiment in social Darwinism, designed by a bored researcher who kept one thumb permanently on the fast-forward button.

Cliches became cliches for a reason; that they usually hold at least a modicum of truth, and the following cliche is truer than most: You can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been.

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.

Because people who couldn't imagine themselves capable of evil were at a major disadvantage in dealing with people who didn't need to imagine, because they already were.

Conspiracy theory's got to be simple. Sense doesn't come into it. People are more scared of how complicated shit actually is than they ever are about whatever's supposed to be behind the conspiracy.

A few stray bits of Lego edged fitfully about among lower strata, like bright rectilinear beetles.

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

I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or MySpace.

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

Flynne: "None of them managed to grow up, far as I can tell."
Ella: "Not many do, in my experience."

Flynne: "Do I get another big-ass bear this time or what?"
Burton: "Far as I can tell, you're gonna be a version of me."
Flynne: "Okay, then I should probably just act a little dimwitted."

You see, in a situation like this? Now, let's say I decide to reach for that bull pup there. Now, what's the worst thing that can happen to me? As far as I can figure, the worst thing, and I mean the very f*cking worst, is that I only manage to kill two of you, rather than all three.

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.

Humans had always been better at killing than any other living thing.