# Quote — William Gibson, Count Zero

> The Finn was looking at Bobby now. “I got a pair of shoes older than you are, so what the fuck should I expect you to know? There were cowboys ever since there were computers. They built the first computers to crack German ice, right? Codebreakers. So there was ice before computers, you wanna look at it that way."

- Author: [William Gibson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-gibson.md)
- Book: [Count Zero](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-gibson/count-zero.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sprawl_trilogy#Count_Zero_(1986)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-gibson/count-zero/the-finn-was

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> “Honey,” Jammer said, “you'll learn. Some things you teach yourself to remember to forget.”

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> He was good as new. How good was that? He didn’t know. He took the things the Dutchman gave him and flew out of Singapore. Home was the next airport Hyatt.

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> The Gothick girl regarded Bobby with mild interest but no flash of human recognition whatever, as though she were seeing an ad for a product she’d heard of but had no intention of buying.

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