Die schönsten Zitate von William Gibson

William Ford Gibson ist ein US-amerikanischer, in Kanada lebender Science-Fiction-Autor. Bekannt wurde er mit seinem 1984 erschienenen Roman Neuromancer. In diesem Buch prägte er unter anderem den Begriff Cyberspace, der noch immer häufig für elektronische Netze wie das World Wide Web verwendet wird, sowie das Subgenre des Cyberpunk und den Begriff der Matrix, welche durch ein globales Informationsnetzwerk gebildet wird und so den Cyberspace ermöglicht.

Die schönsten Buchzitate

Die Zeit bewegt sich in eine Richtung, Erinnerungen in die andere.

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

Erinnerungen, ZeitWilliam Gibson, Distrust That Particular Flavor
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Jahrelang habe ich getrauert - aber nicht um die Toten, sondern um diesen Jungen in einer Ecke meines Herzens, der starb, als die Kindheit mir entglitt.

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.

Kinder & Kindheit, AlterWilliam Gibson
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Because people who couldn't imagine themselves capable of evil were at a major disadvantage in dealing with people who didn't need to imagine, because they already were.

William Gibson in Peripherie - Buch
 
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Conspiracy theory's got to be simple. Sense doesn't come into it. People are more scared of how complicated shit actually is than they ever are about whatever's supposed to be behind the conspiracy.

VerschwörungstheorienWilliam Gibson in Peripherie - Buch
 
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A few stray bits of Lego edged fitfully about among lower strata, like bright rectilinear beetles.

William Gibson in Peripherie - Buch
 
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Die Zukunft ist schon da - sie ist nur noch nicht gerecht verteilt.

The future is already here - it's just not evenly distributed.

Fortschritt, GlobalisierungWilliam Gibson, Dezember 2003
 
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When the past is always with you, it may as well be present; and if it is present, it will be future as well.

William Gibson in Neuromancer
 
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We have sealed ourselves away behind our money, growing inward, generating a seamless universe of self.

William Gibson in Neuromancer
 
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Night City was like a deranged experiment in social Darwinism, designed by a bored researcher who kept one thumb permanently on the fast-forward button.

William Gibson in Neuromancer
 
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Cliches became cliches for a reason; that they usually hold at least a modicum of truth, and the following cliche is truer than most: You can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been.

William Gibson in Neuromancer
 
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Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.

William Gibson in Neuromancer
 
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I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or MySpace.

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

William Gibson in Neuromancer
 
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Sprache ist für den Verstand mehr als Licht für das Auge.

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

Verstand, SpracheWilliam Gibson
 
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