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„Я стараюсь быть объективным по отношению к технологии. В смысле, агностиком.“

Уильям Гибсон

Вариант: Я стараюсь быть объективным по отношению к технологии. Агностиком, в некотором смысле.

„Когда я заканчивал свой шестой роман — «Все вечеринки завтрашнего дня» — меня постоянно преследовало чувство, что мир вокруг меня настолько странен и причудлив, что я больше не могу точно измерить и распознать эту постоянно окружавшую меня странность.“

Уильям Гибсон

Интервью журналу Wired (2012)

„Будущее уже здесь. Оно просто ещё не так широко распространено.“

Уильям Гибсон

другой вариант: «Будущее уже наступило. Просто оно еще неравномерно распределено»

„Будущее там … оглядывается на нас. Пытаясь представить к чему мы придем.“

Уильям Гибсон

„Если вы посмотрите на историю научной фантастики, на то, что, по мнению писателей, должно было случиться и на то, что произошло на самом деле — дела очень плохи. Мы почти всегда ошибаемся. В основе нашей репутации провидцев лежит способность людей изумляться когда нам удаётся что-то угадать. <…“

Уильям Гибсон

Интервью журналу Wired (2012)

„Саморазвивающиеся технологии, в силу самой своей природы, неподконтрольны человеку, и их применение ведет к непредсказуемым результатам.“

Уильям Гибсон

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„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.“

Уильям Гибсон

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

О мужчинах , О секретах , О возрасте

„Улица всегда находит своё собственное применение различным вещам.“

Уильям Гибсон

„корр.: В ваших романах показана пропасть социального неравенства, нищета в них соседствует с богатыми корпорациями…“

Уильям Гибсон

„Я думаю, что Интернет в некотором плане уже, так как Сеть предоставляет множество возможностей для людей, которые живут вне городов.“

Уильям Гибсон

О мужчинах , Об интернете

„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.“

Уильям Гибсон

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

Уильям Гибсон: Цитаты на английском языке

“All any drug amounts to is tweaking the incoming data. You have to be incredibly self-centered or pathetic to be satisfied with simply tweaking the incoming data.”

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William Gibson

No Maps for These Territories (2000)

“Have you ever considered the relationship of clinical paranoia to the phenomenon of religious conversion?”

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William Gibson книга Mona Lisa Overdrive

Источник: Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988), Ch. 13

“They'd left the place littered with the abstract white forms of the foam packing units, with crumpled plastic film and hundreds of tiny foam beads. The Ono-Sendai; next year's most expensive Hosaka computer; a Sony monitor; a dozen disks of corporate-grade ice; a Braun coffee maker.”

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William Gibson книга Neuromancer

Neuromancer (1984)

“As I luxuriate in the discovery that I am no special sponge for sorrow, but merely another fallible animal in this stone maze of a city, I come simultaneously to see that I am the focus of some vast device fueled by an obscure desire.”

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William Gibson книга Count Zero

On Marly Krushkhova
Count Zero (1986)

“We no longer grow the full beef of bohemia, It's all veal now.”

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William Gibson

Intelligence Squared on 'Zero History' with Cory Doctorow https://soundcloud.com/intelligence2/william-gibson-on-zero-history (5th October 2010)

“The straight world didn't end. The straight world and the other world had bled into one another and produced the world that we live in today.”

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William Gibson

No Maps for These Territories (2000)

“He’d grown up in white Jersey stringtowns where nobody knew shit about anything and hated anybody who did.”

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William Gibson книга Mona Lisa Overdrive

Источник: Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988), Ch. 2

“The stick-on holograms had actually had some effect on Bobby, because religion was now something he felt he’d considered and put aside. Basically, the way he figured it, there were just some people around who needed that shit, and he guessed there always had been, but he wasn’t one of them, so he didn’t.”

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William Gibson книга Count Zero

Источник: Count Zero (1986), Ch. 6

“As new technologies search out and lace over every interstice in the net of global communication, we find ourselves with increasingly less excuse for…slack. And that, I would argue, is what the World Wide Web, the test pattern for whatever will become the dominant global medium, offers us. Today, in its clumsy, larval, curiously innocent way, it offers us the opportunity to waste time…It will probably evolve into something considerably less random, and less fun — we seem to have a knack for that — but in the meantime, in its gloriously unsorted Global Ham Television Postcard Universes phase, surfing the Web is a procrastinator’s dream. And people who see you doing it might even imagine you’re working.”

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William Gibson книга Distrust That Particular Flavor

"The Net Is a Waste of Time," The New York Times Magazine, July 14, 1996.
Distrust That Particular Flavor (2012)

“In the age of wooden television in the South where I grew up, leisure involved sitting on screened porches, smoking cigarettes, drinking iced tea, engaging in conversation, and staring into space. It might also involve fishing. Sometimes the Web does remind me of fishing.”

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William Gibson книга Distrust That Particular Flavor

"The Net Is a Waste of Time," The New York Times Magazine, July 14, 1996.
Distrust That Particular Flavor (2012)

“I was born in 1948. I can’t recall a world before television…Initially there was nothing on it but “snow,” and then the nightly advent of a targetlike device called “the test pattern,” which people actually gathered to watch.
I imagine that the World Wide Web and its modest wonders are no more than the test pattern for whatever the twenty-first century will regard as its equivalent medium.”

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William Gibson книга Distrust That Particular Flavor

"The Net Is a Waste of Time," The New York Times Magazine, July 14, 1996.
Distrust That Particular Flavor (2012)

“My first impulse, when presented with any spanking-new piece of computer hardware, is to imagine how it will look in ten years’ time, gathering dust under a card table in a thrift shop. And it probably will.”

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William Gibson книга Distrust That Particular Flavor

"My Obsession," Wired, issue 7.01. 1999.
Distrust That Particular Flavor (2012)

“For more than three decades the Americans had been gradually sliding into isolationism and industrial decline. Space, he thought ruefully, they should have gone into space. He'd never understood the strange paralysis of will that had seemed to grip their brilliant early efforts. Or perhaps it was simply a failure of imagination, of vision.”

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William Gibson Burning Chrome

"Red Star, Winter Orbit"
Burning Chrome (short story anthology, 1986)

“Vasopressin makes you remember, I mean really remember. Clinically they use the stuff to counter senile amnesia, but the street finds its own uses for things.”

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William Gibson Burning Chrome

Burning Chrome (short story anthology, 1986)
Источник: "Burning Chrome" (The Burning Chrome anthology was named after this short story, originally published in Omni, 1982)

“The world hadn't ever had so many moving parts or so few labels.”

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William Gibson Sprawl trilogy

Источник: Sprawl trilogy, Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988), Chapter 39, "Too Much"

“In cyberspace there are no shadows.”

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William Gibson Sprawl trilogy

Источник: Sprawl trilogy, Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988), Chapter 37, "Cranes"

“I'm going to level with you. I'm away for a while. But there's no cash on the premises, no drugs, and the pit bull's tested positive. Twice.”

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William Gibson Blue Ant trilogy

She doesn't leave a message.
Источник: Blue Ant trilogy, Pattern Recognition (2003), Chapter 36, "The Dig" (Parkaboy's outgoing message)

“Life is more difficult for the serious artist. Time is money, but also money is money.”

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William Gibson Blue Ant trilogy

Источник: Blue Ant trilogy, Pattern Recognition (2003), Chapter 26, "SIGINT"

“You care passionately about this thing…That is what makes you so valuable. That and your talents, your allergies, your tame pathologies, the things that make you a secret legend in the world of marketing.”

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William Gibson Blue Ant trilogy

Источник: Blue Ant trilogy, Pattern Recognition (2003), Chapter 7, "The Proposition" (Bigend to Cayce, about the footage)

“There is that mirror−world ingestion of archaic substances, she thinks: People smoke, and drink as though it were good for you, and seem to still be in some sort of honeymoon phase with cocaine.”

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William Gibson Blue Ant trilogy

Источник: Blue Ant trilogy, Pattern Recognition (2003), Chapter 1, "The Website of Dreadful Night"

“I have already told you of the sickness and confusion that comes with time travelling.”

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William Gibson Jackpot trilogy

Jackpot trilogy, The Peripheral (2014)
Источник: Epigraph, taken from H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, chapter 11.

“I wish I had a book.”

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William Gibson Blue Ant trilogy

There were a few expensively bound and weirdly neutered bookazines here, but he knew from glancing through them that these were bland advertisements for being wealthy, wealthy and deeply, witheringly unimaginative.
Reading, his therapist had suggested, had likely been his first drug.
Источник: Blue Ant trilogy, Zero History (2010), Chapter 18, "140" (Milgrim in London)