Latest William Gibson Quotes from Interviews

• One of the things I have taken for granted, in terms of how technology works in the world, is the people that develop it and get it out there don't really know what we are going to do with until we have really gotten ahold of it and it has become ubiquitous. And then we wind up doing things that its inventors never dreamed of and those things become the real change drivers. That is actually where the whole technocracy thing falls apart for me, because the people who invented it can't predict what we're going to do with it.

  William Gibson

  Real, Fall, Taken

  Fuente: www.businessinsider.com

• Movies have gotten dull, the way network television got dull. And television, if we can still even call it that, is still really exciting and riveting and people are totally into it. I am always meeting people who have these favorite shows that they are completely wired too and not only have I never seen it but I don't even know how to find it.

  William Gibson

  People, Exciting, Meetings

  Fuente: www.businessinsider.com

• Magazines in the traditional sense were aggregators of novelty. A good magazine was a lot of novelty, stuff you've never heard of before, clearly aggregated by people who have been able to travel further and dig deeper than you have been able to do. And that used to be really an important source of stuff for me. And now it is less important because the Internet has eaten it all up. But my Twitter feed as an aggregator of novelty is like... I don't know what I would do if it became any more powerful, I would have to start reining it in somehow.

  William Gibson

  Powerful, People, Important

  Fuente: www.businessinsider.com

• Twitter es la única red social que me gusta. Me gusta la sensación de que mi percepción del mundo se amplía cada día, 24 horas al día, 7 días a la semana, al poder seguir las reacciones de más de 100 personas de todo el mundo a las que sigo personalmente para hacerme una idea de quiénes son. Nunca antes había existido algo así, al menos en lo que respecta al ancho de banda digerible de 140 caracteres en el que se basa Twitter. Puedo despertarme, abrir Twitter y echar un vistazo al estado psíquico del planeta.

  William Gibson

  Tomado, Gente, Sentimientos

  Fuente: www.businessinsider.com

• Cuando empiezo a escribir un nuevo futuro imaginario, no tengo ni idea de lo que es. Primero llegan los personajes. Ellos me ayudan a averiguar dónde viven y yo voy rellenando los huecos con eso y dónde estamos. Así que cuando llego al final del proceso de composición, si siento que realmente he hecho mi trabajo, no tengo ni idea de lo que he conseguido, y entonces me paso esencialmente el resto de mi vida averiguando qué puede significar.

  William Gibson

  Escritura, Carácter, Significado

  Fuente: www.businessinsider.com

• It had also been my belief since I started writing fiction that science fiction is never really about the future. When science fiction is old, you can only read it as being pretty much about the moment in which it was written. But it seemed to me that the toolkit that science fiction had given me when I started working had become the toolkit of a kind of literary naturalism that could be applied to an inherently incredible present.

  William Gibson

  Writing, Belief, Kind

  Fuente: www.businessinsider.com

• I have always been intensely uncomfortable with the idea of a science fiction writer as prophet. Not that there haven't been science fiction writers who think of themselves as having some sort of prophetic role, but when I think of that, I always think of H.G. Wells - he would think of what was going to happen, and he would imagine how it would happen, and then he would create a fiction to illustrate the idea that he'd had. And no part of my process has ever resembled that at all.

  William Gibson

  Thinking, Imagine, Science Fiction

  Fuente: www.businessinsider.com

• There's an idea called "gray man", in the security business, that I find interesting. They teach people to dress unobtrusively. Chinos instead of combat pants, and if you really need the extra pockets, a better design conceals them. They assume, actually, that the bad guys will shoot all the guys wearing combat pants first, just to be sure.

  William Gibson

  Men, Ideas, Interesting

  Source: www.heddels.com

• I'm embarrassed if I think anyone knows exactly what I paid for something, or even where I got it. I want what I'm wearing to feel good on, wear well, and to be extremely functional.

  William Gibson

  Thinking, Feel Good, Want

  Source: www.heddels.com

• I've never actually been a collector. I like the learning-curve, but I buy things, sell them to finance other things.

  William Gibson

  Curves, Finance, Collectors

  Source: www.heddels.com

• We live in an age of seriously crap mass clothing. They've made a science of it.

  William Gibson

  Age, Mass, Made

  Source: www.heddels.com

• "Authenticity" doesn't mean much to me. I just want "good", in the sense of well-designed, well-constructed, long-lasting garments. My interest in military clothing stems from that. It's not about macho, playing soldiers, anything militaristic. It's the functionality, the design-solutions, the durability. Likewise workwear.

  William Gibson

  Military, Mean, Long

  Source: www.heddels.com

• When I was first writing about Japan, it was at the peak of the Bubble. Bubble popped, but they kept on going. Japanese street style feeds American iconics back into America in somewhat the way English rock once fed American blues back into America.

  William Gibson

  Writing, America, Rocks

  Source: www.heddels.com

• Japan had a more radical experience of future shock than any other nation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. They were this feudal place, locked in the past, but then they bought the whole Industrial Revolution kit from England, blew their cultural brains out with it, became the first industrialized Asian nation, tried to take over their side of the world, got nuked by the United States for their trouble, and discovered Steve McQueen! Their take on iconic menswear emerges from that matrix.

  William Gibson

  Past, Japan, Brain

  Source: www.heddels.com

• I was travelling with Bruce Sterling on our mutual Difference Engine tour and he became aware from the experience of travelling with me that I would distinguish among the shoes in a perfectly normal fashion, but form him it was a revelation. There's a very lyrical passage in Holy Fire about old wealthy European men and their shoes, and how beautiful their shoes are, and how there have never been shoes as beautiful. I think that that was probably as close as Bruce will ever get to homage in my direction. I made him aware of footwear fashion.

  William Gibson

  Hermoso, Moda, Hombres

  Fuente: craphound.com

• I feel like I've been very fortunate in that I've stuck like a burr to the dog-leg of the next generation of nerdism. I've been carried into the XXIth century on Bill Gates' pants-cuff.

  William Gibson

  Dog, Generations, Cuffs

  Fuente: craphound.com

• I'm very primitive in terms of economics. The kind of new business in which stock gets more valuable because the company grows, but there must be limits to growth. But if publishing is expanding to fill that retail space, it seems like there may be a necessary and unpleasant correction waiting down the road. How many books to people WANT?

  William Gibson

  Libro, Espacio, Personas

  Fuente: craphound.com

• The Simpson's in Piccadilly has been turned into the largest bookstore in all of Europe! How can they fill it? All of these purpose-built Borders and Chapters and every new mall that goes up has a giant chain bookstore with a purpose-built author reading space, whoah, what's gong on there.

  William Gibson

  Reading, Europe, Space

  Fuente: craphound.com

• He recorrido todo el mundo occidental y me parece que hay más superficie comercial dedicada a la venta de libros que de alimentos. ¡Hay más espacio dedicado a la venta de libros que en toda la historia de la humanidad! ¡Es grotesco!

  William Gibson

  Libro, Espacio, Humanidad

  Fuente: craphound.com

• Si estuviera en circunstancias socioeconómicas muy apuradas y tuviera que mudarme a Estados Unidos, probablemente optaría por Athens, GA, o Lawrence, KS. Como suelen hacer los tíos boho, vivir barato en la orilla izquierda de Kansas.

  William Gibson

  Moving, Kansas, Guy

  Fuente: craphound.com

• En la medida en que tengo una conciencia política muy limitada, hasta cierto punto soy un tipo perezoso y apolítico que simplemente revolotea por ahí.

  William Gibson

  Political, Guy, Lazy

  Fuente: craphound.com

• I like living in Vancouver .It's more a matter of being a Vancouver loyalist. Harking back to what I said about growing up with the inherent violence in the southern U.S., I'm deeply enamoured of, and entirely used to living in a society with gun laws akin to those of a Scandinavian social democracy .It's a good thing.

  William Gibson

  Growing Up, Gun, Law

  Fuente: craphound.com

• I've always assumed from the beginning that I had relatively few contemporaries among my readership. Not that I was consciously writing for a younger audience but that what I was doing interested a younger audience, or at least threatened them less.

  William Gibson

  Writing, Readership, Audience

  Fuente: craphound.com

• Observo una especie de forma primitiva de la máquina de recomodificación alrededor de mis amigos y yo en los años sesenta, y este torpe mecanismo tardó unos dos años en llegar e intentar vendernos a The Monkees. En 1977, un mecanismo ligeramente más rápido y refinado tardó unos ocho meses en poner punk en el escaparate de Holt Renfrew. Desde entonces se ha vuelto más rápido. La escena de Seattle de la que surgió Nirvana: en cuanto tuvo una etiqueta, estaba en las pasarelas de París.No hay periodo de gracia, así que esa es una forma en la que veo que perdemos lo intersticial.

  William Gibson

  Eight, Years, Two

  Fuente: craphound.com

• What we're doing pop culturally is like burning the rain forest. The biodiversity of pop culture is really, really in danger.

  William Gibson

  Rain, Forests, Culture

  Fuente: craphound.com

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