William Gibson Quotes

“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.”

“I don’t cry, much.” “But how would you cry, if someone made you cry?” “I spit,” [Molly] said. “The ducts are routed back into my mouth.‘”

“The ... smart ones are as smart as the Turing heat is willing to let ‘em get.”

“Case fell into the prison of his own flesh.”

“Anybody any good at what they do, that’s what they are, right?”

“For ... years men dreamed of pacts with demons. Only now are such things possible.”

“Power, in Case’s world, meant corporate power. ”

“She dreamed of a state involving very little in the way of individual consciousness.”

“Of course I dreamed. The cold let the outside in, that was it. The outside. All the night I built this to hide us from. Just a drop, at first, one grain of night seeping in, drawn by the cold.”

“You can’t let the little pricks generation-gap you.”

“You dead awhile there, mon.”

“Very flash. What he imagines, you see.”

“Wintermute was hive mind ... effecting change in the world ... Neuromancer was personality. Neuromancer was immortality.”

“I like it, you know? Like I’ve always talked to myself, in my head, when I’ve been in tight spots. Pretend I got some friend, somebody I can trust, and I’ll tell ‘em what I really think, what I feel like, and then I’ll pretend they’re telling me what they think about that, and I’ll just go along that way. Having you in is kinda like that.”

“Probably got him on ice. Thaw when needed.”

“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”

“Unlike my brother. I create my own personality. Personality is my medium.”

“Operators above a certain level tended to submerge their personalities, he knew. ”

“Things aren’t different. Things are things.”

“He’d operated on an almost permanent adrenaline high, a byproduct of youth and proficiency, jacking into a custom cyberspace deck that projected his disembodied consciousness into the consensual hallucination that was the matrix.”