William Gibson

Quotes

1. She put the glasses on…a cursor appearing. A white arrow, centered in her field of vision. Then moving down, of its own accord.

   “Here we go,” said a woman’s husky voice in Verity’s ear.

2. 

   “You're weird, Wilf…You want to fetishize an extremely narrow-bandwidth experience,” Macon said, “that’s your business.”

3. 

   There was a looseness to this, beyond her experience of chatbots, but a wariness as well.

4. 

   Eunice had screened Inception for her, the night before…Returning her to Gavin had seemed the wisest option, but then something about her earnestly nerdy exposition of the film had been the start of a growing empathy. Somehow rooted, she thought now, in a sense of someone afflicted with extremely busy but only intermittently connected suburbs of the self.

5. 

   “Nothing before the 2020s has ever seemed entirely real, to me,” Rainey said. “Hard to imagine they weren’t constantly happy, given all they still had. Tigers, for instance.”

6. 

   Kumiko looked into Colin's transparent green eyes…"What are you?"

   "A Maas-Neotek biochip personality-base programmed to aid and advise the Japanese visitor in the United Kingdom." He winked at her.

   "Why did you wink?"

   The ghost touched his lips with a slim forefinger. "I'm something else as well, yes. I do display a bit too much initiative for a mere guide program. I can't tell you exactly what I am, though, because I don't know."

7. 

   Petal called the city Smoke.

8. 

   He imagined her now, stretched on a couch in her elongated Toronto apartment…She’d be wearing a headband, to trick her nervous system into believing the rented peripheral’s movements were hers in a dream.

9. 

   In cyberspace, Kumiko noted, there are no shadows.

10. 

    "So Homes had Burton's phone overnight. What worries me is that they might have looked at mine while they had his.”

    “In that case,” Macon said, “they’d have looked at mine as well. Your brother and I pretty much in a way of business…Some bored Homes in a big white truck, looking for porn, I could probably tell. But some panoptic motherfucker federal AI? Fuck only knows.”

11. 

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

12. 

    Your saving grace, Danielle, is that you make the rest of your kind look vaguely human.