William Gibson Quotes

Cyberspace is where you are when you're on the telephone.

William Gibson

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• Any time you can give consumers more of what they want, it's a good thing. Unbundling the album is a good thing. In the case of music - because it is content that you can slice into songs - doing that is of huge benefit to consumers.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• I get the 'The New York Times' and 'Los Angeles Times' thrown at my door every morning. I'll read the front page of 'The New York Times,' then the op-eds, then scan the arts section and then the sports section. Then I do the same with the 'L.A. Times.'

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Morning
  • Sports
  • Door

• Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I've just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Best
  • Choices

• We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Society
  • Create
  • United

• When I was at U.C.L.A., I decided I was going to go to Japan and learn Japanese.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Learn
  • Going
  • Japanese

• All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Time
  • Want
  • Know

• And Michael likes to read a lot. People don't realize that about him but he reads a number of books per week and he's fascinated just about every subject.

  

  David Gest
  • People

• It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

  

  Elizabeth Taylor
  • Time
  • Waiting
  • Patience

• We take it for granted that we can see at all times of day and night. But there was a time, not all that long ago, in the age before electricity, when night brought total darkness - and with it, a not-so-small amount of terror. We get a sense of this when we go camping or when there's a power outage, and our fear of the darkness is primal.

  

  Jake Halpern
  • Time
  • Long
  • Power

• Pokemon Go, which involves trying to 'catch' Pikachu or Squirtle or other creatures with your smartphone, is an inherently social experience. You need to be walking around - on the streets, in public places - to catch the Pokemon.

  

  Om Malik
  • Trying
  • Experience
  • Walking

• It's absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual.

  

  Peter Garrett Midnight Oil
  • People
  • Responsibility
  • Lies

• I started out as a writer and a director. I started acting because I wanted to know how to relate to the actors. When people ask me what I do, I don't really say that I'm an actor, because actors often wait for someone to give them roles.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
  • People

• My daughter is one of the associate producers on two shows for Disney. I am really proud of her.

  

  Mary Ann Mobley
  • Proud
  • Daughter
  • Disney

• Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up.

  

  Chaim Potok
  • People
  • Up
  • Reality

• When someone makes a mistake, it's right to underline this type of situation and find the best solution to avoid the same mistake in the future.

  

  Antonio Conte
  • Future
  • Mistake

• I always want to work.

  

  Mary McCormack
  • Work

• 'The Graduate' should have won best picture over 'In the Heat of the Night.'

  

  Andy Kindler
  • Night
  • Picture

• I remember I wanted to be Zorro, but I also wanted to be a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. I obviously had ideas above my station.

  

  Paolo Nutini
  • Remember

• Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Numbers
  • Telephones
  • Slumber

• I wanted to be self-sufficient, I wanted to take care of myself, and I wanted to learn. I wanted to travel, I wanted to see the world and have my eyes opened. I wanted to be consistently challenged, and I knew I needed to be creative in some way. When I got my job in a bar and I could pay for my tuition and go on auditions and sometimes get jobs that I loved and pay my rent, I knew that I would be all right. That's when my dreams came true, long before the telephone rang and someone said, 'Come and meet Tom Cruise'".

  

  Renee Zellweger
  • Dream
  • Sometimes
  • Creative

• I'd rather stay here with all the madmen than perish with the sadmen roaming free.

  

  David Bowie
  • Insanity
  • Madmen
  • Roaming

• Scholars sometimes use technical terms (i.e., Hypostases) for no good reason, other than the fact that they are the technical terms scholars use.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Reason
  • Terms
  • Scholars

• In many ways, large profits are even more insidious than large losses in terms of emotional destabilization. I think it's important not to be emotionally attached to large profits. I've certainly made some of my worst trades after long periods of winning. When you're on a big winning streak, there's a temptation to think that you're doing something special, which will allow you to continue to propel yourself upward. You start to think that you can afford to make shoddy decisions. You can imagine what happens next. As a general rule, losses make you strong and profits make you weak.

  

  William Eckhardt
  • Important
  • Decision
  • Winning

• Cyberspace is where you are when you're on the telephone.

  

  William Gibson
  • Cyberspace
  • Telephones