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

• 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 had so many secrets and so much social repression throughout my life. I guess I'm just a shy person and feel like my true self is unacceptable to most people.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Secrets
  • Feel Like
  • Repression

• I think confidence comes from doing something well, working at it hard, and you build it up. It's not something you're born with. You have to build the confidence as you go along.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Up
  • Confidence
  • Working

• I don't think this is the moment to do sanctions, and I do think the sanctions may contribute to the opposite that we want to obtain, which is defusing of the crisis.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Crisis
  • Opposite
  • Sanctions

• Monsters don't scare me at all; I think creepy is scarier than gore. I tend to read more thrillers and mysteries than horror, though. I like a good whodunnit. If I want scary, I tend to reach for a movie. I think it's a great medium for horror.

  

  Sarah Pinborough
  • Movie
  • Scary
  • Horror

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

  

  William Gibson
  • Cyberspace
  • Telephones