William Gibson Quotes
I think science fiction gives us a wonderful toolkit to disassemble and reexamine this kind of incomprehensible, constantly changing present that we live in, that we often live in quite uncomfortably.
Quotes to Explore
-
We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
-
I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.
-
This experience has also humbled me by giving me a true understanding of what millions of others face each day in their own fight against cancer.
-
There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of morality.
-
Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.
-
Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.
-
To me, charity often is just about giving, because you're supposed to, or because it's what you've always done - or it's about giving until it hurts.
-
The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
-
I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
-
As wonderful as being on stage is, family comes first.
-
He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
-
Google owns YouTube, and recently, I drew a comic about an idea for a YouTube feature - which they actually took seriously and implemented. So I'm thinking that maybe we'll have a future where Google is 'xkcd.'
-
I had kind of sworn off network TV a while ago.
-
We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.
-
Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
-
The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
-
When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.
-
Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I'm saying it's already been done because I lived it.
-
Something like that starts with me. . . . It was all of us together.
-
MUCKY drawing I AM FeeLing completely mucky today too. everyone at school seems so much tougher + pulled together and not so emotionally involved. I get so mad at MYSELF FOR 'caring so deeply' AND 'MAINTAINING' all this stuff in me that FEELS SO PATHectic. I want to put my tHINKing in HYBernation FOR A WHile.
-
When will you give up these mad adventures, and leave others to fight their own battles and to save their own lives as best they may?' When your ladyship has ceased to be the most admired woman in Europe, namely, when I am in my grave.
-
I didn't want to get married - I thought it was like a cult! It seemed so conservative and unnatural.
-
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
-
I think science fiction gives us a wonderful toolkit to disassemble and reexamine this kind of incomprehensible, constantly changing present that we live in, that we often live in quite uncomfortably.
