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Quotes About Cyberpunk

Where is the voice that said altered carbon would free us from the cells of our flesh? The vision that said we would be angels.
~ Richard K. Morgan
As far as I know Misha wrote the first cyberpunk poetry.
~ John Shirley
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
~ William Gibson
Cyberpunk was really a reaction against old boy sci-fi which was about white guys in space who would come up with some kind of technological thing.
~ Pat Cadigan
In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.
~ Daniel H. Wilson
The apocalyptic aspects of horror, cyberpunk and surrealism, with a steady overtone of mental aberrations, are explored through the diverse arts of literature, music, film, art, comics and technology. -- In reference to the infamous, eclectic magazine, Cyber-Psychos AOD #8, 1999.
~ Anne Dyer
I first conceived of my far-future setting 'Punktown' in 1980, and though it contains 'punk' in its name, the term 'cyberpunk' hadn't been coined yet. I took my inspiration strictly from punk music.
~ Jeffrey Thomas
I could talk about Blade Runner forever.
~ Brion James
My favourite book in the world is 'Neuromancer' by William Gibson.
~ Watkin Tudor Jones
There is a great deal of cyberpunk that I admire, especially the work of William Gibson which I think is excellent. Somehow he speaks from his own heart and cyber punk is what comes out.
~ Robert Sheckley
I love William Gibson.
~ Morten Tyldum
J. G. Ballard is just an example of the writers I like. Philip K. Dick is obviously one of them. I'm a big fan of William Gibson as well. He started cyberpunk with 'Neuromancer.' I've come to know him a little bit over Twitter, of all places, and I was always a huge fan of his. It's very cool to know he even knows I exist.
~ Duncan Jones
Neuromancer' by William Gibson is a cyberpunk classic.
~ Frank Skinner
When 'Ghost in the Shell' was first made, it was so prescient. It was sci-fi.
~ Ng Chin Han
For me, the best thing about Cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me. Now I just imagine the whole thing is two miles below the moon's surface, and that half the people's right-brains have been eaten by roboticized steel rats. And suddenly it's interesting again.
~ Rudy Rucker
It's just the absolute bomb. Ghost in the Shell was really good, it's a little bit more recent.
~ James Marsters
Overall, she seemed to be going for a sort of mid-'80s postapocalyptic cyberpunk girl-next-door look. And it was working for me, in a big way. In a word: hot .
~ Ernest Cline
Neuromancer.
~ Ernest Cline
Overall, she seemed to be going for a sort of mid-'80s postapocalyptic cyberpunk girl-next-door look. And it was working for me, in a big way.
~ Ernest Cline
In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
~ Warren Spector
I like the idea of using cool cyberpunk stuff to tell really stupid jokes.
~ Zoe Quinn
The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly with peers over networks. Digital technology would create tremendous slack, allow us to apply its asynchronous, decentralized qualities to our own work and lives.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
There is strength in numbers, and if the public outcry grows, governments and corporations will be forced to respond. We are trying to prevent an authoritarian government like the one portrayed in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and a corporate-ruled state like the ones portrayed in countless dystopian cyberpunk science fiction novels. We are nowhere near either of those endpoints, but the train is moving in both those directions, and we need to apply the brakes.
~ Bruce Schneier
This Snow Crash thing—is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?" Juanita shrugs. "What's the difference?
~ Neal Stephenson