Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
Memories, TimeWilliam Gibson, Distrust That Particular FlavorFor 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.
Children & Childhood, AgeWilliam GibsonBecause 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.
William Gibson in The Peripheral - BookConspiracy 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.
Conspiracy TheoriesWilliam Gibson in The Peripheral - BookA few stray bits of Lego edged fitfully about among lower strata, like bright rectilinear beetles.
William Gibson in The Peripheral - BookThe future is already here - it's just not evenly distributed.
Progress, GlobalizationWilliam Gibson, December 2003When the past is always with you, it may as well be present; and if it is present, it will be future as well.
William Gibson in NeuromancerWe have sealed ourselves away behind our money, growing inward, generating a seamless universe of self.
William Gibson in NeuromancerNight City was like a deranged experiment in social Darwinism, designed by a bored researcher who kept one thumb permanently on the fast-forward button.
William Gibson in NeuromancerCliches 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.
William Gibson in NeuromancerCyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.
William Gibson in NeuromancerI 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.
TwitterWilliam GibsonThe sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
William Gibson in Neuromancer