Die schönsten Zitate von William Gibson

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

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

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.

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.

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.

A few stray bits of Lego edged fitfully about among lower strata, like bright rectilinear beetles.

Die Zukunft ist schon da - sie ist nur noch nicht gerecht verteilt.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Sprache ist für den Verstand mehr als Licht für das Auge.

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