William Gibson Quotes

"Cyberspace is everting." It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state.

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• I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Home
  • Travel
  • Computers

• The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Country
  • Happy
  • Free

• I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Person
  • Failures
  • Negatives

• The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • High
  • Quality
  • Ability

• No decent career was ever founded on a public.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Career
  • Ever
  • Decent

• I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Growing
  • Mom
  • Horror

• All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Home
  • Enjoy

• The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Hope
  • Pleasure

• What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them, they are unpredictable. Dogs are more social, and the way that they attach and bond to us is much more human.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Funny
  • Human
  • Superior

• I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Why
  • Understanding
  • Progress

• Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Way
  • Africa
  • Middle East

• Americans have grown impatient with the relentless politicizing of every area of life.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Life
  • Impatient
  • Relentless

• The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Nature
  • Support
  • Revolution

• Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Work
  • Me
  • Passion

• I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • American
  • Opportunity
  • Best

• J. J. Abrams is amazing.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Amazing

• All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Work
  • Information
  • Computers

• In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Existence
  • Exist
  • Agreement

• Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Book
  • Power
  • Words

• On the radio there's only a certain amount of artists: Jay-Z, Beyonce, Kanye, T-Pain, Lil Wayne, T.I., Mary J Blige, Alicia Keys. Other artists are achieving things that are really special, they have a hard time getting people's attention. Music has been just a little bit lacklustre.

  

  Q-Tip
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country, than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.

  

  Andrew Jackson
  • Country
  • Brave
  • Coward

• I do not like assassins, or men of low character.

  

  Gene Hackman
  • Men
  • Character

• "Cyberspace is everting." It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state.

  

  William Gibson
  • Reality
  • Everyday
  • Entrepreneur