„Я стараюсь быть объективным по отношению к технологии. В смысле, агностиком.“
Вариант: Я стараюсь быть объективным по отношению к технологии. Агностиком, в некотором смысле.
Уильям Гибсон цитаты
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Уильям Гибсон
Дата рождения: 17. Март 1948
Другие имена: উইলিয়াম গিবসন
Уи́льям Форд Ги́бсон — американо-канадский 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 .Так же он является создателем Агриппы .
Цитаты Уильям Гибсон
„Подозреваю я провёл почти в точности столько же времени в работе над рассказами, сколько средний человек моего возраста потратил перед телевизором, и в этом, как ни в чём другом, может быть настоящий секрет.“
I suspect I have spent just about exactly as much time actually writing as the average person my age has spent watching television, and that, as much as anything, may be the real secret here.
Источник: Краткая автобиография на официальном сайте http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/source/source.asp
„Google — это подобие огромного коллективного разума, который состоит из нас. Как пользователи, изначально мы делаем заключение, что его продукт — это информация, которую нам свободно дают, но в дальнейшем, я думаю, становится ясно, что на самом деле мы сами являемся его продуктом. Каждый раз, когда мы используем Google, мы вносим вклад в знания Google о том, что делают его пользователи, что и является одним из самых важных и продаваемых продуктов Гугл.“
Источник: Steve Paikin, interview with William Gibson http://tachikoma.diary.ru/p139183004.htm — перевод: Tachikoma, 26.12.2010 http://tachikoma.diary.ru/p139574663.htm?oam#more1
„Будущее уже здесь. Оно просто ещё не так широко распространено.“
другой вариант: «Будущее уже наступило. Просто оно еще неравномерно распределено»
„The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.“
— William Gibson, книга Neuromancer
Источник: Neuromancer (1984)
„The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.“
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/.
„The future is there… looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.“
— William Gibson, книга Pattern Recognition
Источник: Pattern Recognition
„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 -->
Контексте: 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.
„I think of religions as franchise operations.“
Referring to his belief that it's possible for religions to help people.
No Maps for These Territories (2000)
Контексте: I think of religions as franchise operations. Like chicken franchise operations. But that doesn't mean there's no chicken, right?
„The lane to the land of the dead.“
— William Gibson, книга Neuromancer
Neuromancer (1984)
Контексте: The lane to the land of the dead. Where you are, my friend. Marie-France, my lady, she prepared this road, but her lord choked her off before I could read the book of her days. Neuro from the nerves, the silver paths. Romancer. Necromancer. I call up the dead. But no, my friend," and the boy did a little dance, brown feet printing the sand, "I am the dead, and their land." He laughed. A gull cried, "Stay. If your woman is a ghost, she doesn't know it. Neither will you."
„Beyond ego, beyond personality, beyond awareness, he moved“
— William Gibson, книга Neuromancer
Neuromancer (1984)
Контексте: He came in steep, fueled by self-loathing. When the Kuang program met the first of the defenders, scattering the leaves of light, he felt the shark thing lose a degree of substantiality, the fabric of information loosening. And then — old alchemy of the brain and its vast pharmacy — his hate flowed into his hands. In the instant before he drove Kuang's sting through the base of the first tower, he attained a level of proficiency exceeding anything he'd known or imagined. Beyond ego, beyond personality, beyond awareness, he moved, Kuang moving with him, evading his attackers with an ancient dance, Hideo's dance, grace of the mind-body interface granted him, in that second, by the clarity and singleness of his wish to die.
„All I knew about the word "cyberspace" when I coined it, was that it seemed like an effective buzzword.“
No Maps for These Territories (2000)
Контексте: All I knew about the word "cyberspace" when I coined it, was that it seemed like an effective buzzword. It seemed evocative and essentially meaningless. It was suggestive of something, but had no real semantic meaning, even for me, as I saw it emerge on the page.
„The damage was minute, subtle, and utterly effective.“
— William Gibson, книга Neuromancer
Neuromancer (1984)
Контексте: They damaged his nervous system with a wartime Russian mycotoxin. Strapped to a bed in a Memphis hotel, his talent burning out micron by micron, he hallucinated for thirty hours. The damage was minute, subtle, and utterly effective. For Case, who'd lived for the bodiless exultation of cyberspace, it was the Fall.
