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"19 William Gibson Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 17 March 1948 | Writer | Essayist |

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

Past You Present Future
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The future has already arrived. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.

Future Arrived Evenly distributed
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I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It’s only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

Technology Morally Good Evil
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Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye

Language Mind Light Eye
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A book exists at the intersection of the author’s subconscious and the reader’s response

Books Author's Reader's Response
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We see in order to move; we move in order to see.
We See Order Move
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Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting

Time Moves Menory Natural
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You can’t know where you’re going if you don’t know where you’ve been.

You Know Going Where
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You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work

You Learn Overcome Work
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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.

Desire Love Loyalty People
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We have sealed ourselves away behind our money, growing inward, generating a seamless universe of self

We Money Growing Universe
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If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it’s not.

Ignorance Exist World People
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A middleman’s business is to make himself a necessary evil.

Business Make Necessary Evil
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Stability is the beginning of the end. We only walk by continually beginning to fall forward

Stability End Walk Fall foward
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You’ll learn. Some things you teach yourself to remember to forget.

Learn Teach Remember Forget
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Stand high long enough and your lightning will come

Stand high Enough Lightning Come
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The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.

Future Looking Sense Fiction
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Time is money, but also money is money.

Time Money
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The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

Net Waste Time Right
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William Gibson Quotes & Sayings