Quotes from William Gibson

Power, in Case's world, meant corporate power. The zaibatsus, the multinationals that shaped the course of human history, had transcended old barriers. Viewed as organisms, they had attained a kind of immortality. You couldn't kill a zaibatsu by assassinating a dozen key executives; there were others waiting to step up the ladder, assume the vacated position, access the vast banks of corporate memory...

Conspiracy 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.

It was the root of street cool, too, the knowing posture that implied connection, invisible lines up to the hidden levels of influence.

You are exhibiting symptoms of urban singles angst. There are cures for this. Drink up. Go.

They're still a bit in advance of the pandemics, at least." She took the seat opposite. "Nothing before the 2020s has ever seemed entirely real, to me. Hard to imagine they weren't constantly happy, given all they still had. Tigers, for instance." Picking

We're an information economy. They teach you that in school. What they don't tell you is that it's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. Fragments that can be retrieved, amplified...

I did not come to this country for the terror from paramilitary, declared Voytek, hoarsely. I did not come to this country for motherfucker . But motherfucker is waiting. Always . Is carceral state, surveillance state. Orwell. You have read Orwell?

Conspiracy 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.

When you raise the dead, they bring their baggage.

And don't forget to water the fuckin' goldfish.

I'm away for a while. But there's no cash on the premises, no drugs, and the pitbull's tested positive. Twice.

Be quiet, darling. Let pattern recognition have its way.

She's right, Kate's right, I'm right and you're wrong. If you drive her away from here it will be over my dead— chair, has it never occurred to you at on one occasion you might be consummately wrong?

If you knew enough Greek, she thought, you could assemble a word that meant divination via the pattern of grease left on a paper plate by broasted potatoes. But it would be a long word.

If J.G. Ballard had been on Twitter, I doubt he'd have cat-posted. Wm. S. Burroughs, on the other hand, probably would have. He loved cats. I received Christmas cards from Burroughs. All were cute cat cards.

If you fancy resenting the tedious, I recommend intentional communities, particularly those led by charismatics." "You

The faces he woke up with in the worlds hotels were like God's own hood ornaments. Women's sleeping faces, identical and alone, naked, aimed straight out to the void.

All the meat, he thought, and all it wants.

Maelcum a rude boy, said the other, an' a righteous tug pilot.

You will come with us. We are at home with situations of legal ambiguity. The treaties under which our arm of the Registry operates grant us a great deal of flexibility. And we create flexibility, in situations where it is required.

The child saw things that were too evident, too obvious for the trained eye.

Hitler had had entirely too brilliant a graphics department, and had understood the power of branding all too well.

In Heathrow a vast chunk of memory detached itself from a blank bowl of airport sky and fell on him. He vomited into a blue plastic canister without breaking stride.

Authoritarian societies are inherently corrupt, and corrupt societies are inherently unstable. Rule of thieves brings collapse, eventually, because they can't stop stealing.