Уильям Гибсон цитаты
Уильям Гибсон
Дата рождения: 17. Март 1948
Другие имена:উইলিয়াম গিবসন
Уи́льям Форд Ги́бсон — американский писатель-фантаст, с 1967 года живущий в Канаде и имеющий двойное гражданство. Он считается основателем стиля киберпанк, определившего жанровое лицо литературы 1980-х. Его трилогия «Киберпространство» привлекла миллионы читателей. Некоторые произведения Гибсона созданы в соавторстве с Брюсом Стерлингом. Проза Гибсона имеет ярко выраженный социально-психологический и социально-философский характер, он считается одним из лучших стилистов современной американской литературы. Лауреат премий «Хьюго» и «Небьюла», а также премии Филипа К. Дика .
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американский писатель-фантаст
Дэн Симмонс
американский писатель-фантаст
Цитаты Уильям Гибсон
„Будущее уже здесь. Оно просто ещё не так широко распространено.“
— Уильям Гибсон
другой вариант: «Будущее уже наступило. Просто оно еще неравномерно распределено»
„The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.“
— William Gibson
He is reported to have first said this in an interview on Fresh Air, NPR (31 August 1993) { unverified http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1107153}, he repeated it, prefacing it with "As I've said many times…" in "The Science in Science Fiction" on Talk of the Nation, NPR (30 November 1999, Timecode 11:55) http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1067220. See also The future has arrived... - Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/01/24/future-has-arrived/.
„If not for our excessive vanity and our over-active imaginations, novelists might be unusually difficult to deceive.“
— William Gibson
Context: The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great length. If not for our excessive vanity and our over-active imaginations, novelists might be unusually difficult to deceive.
Twitter tweet (31 May 2009) http://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/1986617191<!-- also (1 June 2009) http://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/1986630272 -->
„They were a traumatized lot, those boys. And I just felt frivolous.“
— William Gibson
Context: Consequently, when I got to Toronto, much to my chagrin, I really, really couldn't handle hanging out with the American draft dodgers. There was too much clinical depression. Too much suicide. Too much hardcore substance abuse. They were a traumatized lot, those boys. And I just felt frivolous.
„I didn't imagine that art girls in the Midwest would be flashing their tits in cyberspace...but I'm glad that they're doing it.“
— William Gibson
Context: I didn't imagine that art girls in the Midwest would be flashing their tits in cyberspace... but I'm glad that they're doing it.
Asked whether the Internet is how he imagined it would be
