All Quotes

In the early '80s, I happened to find myself in the vicinity of people who would work for Microsoft five years later. ”

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. I've been involved anonymously in some tiny listservs, mainly in my ceaseless quest for random novelty, and sometimes while doing something that more closely resembles research. ”

I'm quite good friends with the putative director, Vincenzo Natali, and I'm a big fan of his work, but beyond that, I don't like to talk about other people's work work-in-progress. ”

If I write something set 60 years in the future, I am going to have to explain how humanity got there, and that's becoming quite a big job. ”

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet. ”

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary. ”

When I wrote 'Neuromancer', I had a list in my head of all the things the future was assumed to be which it would not be in the book I was about to write. In a sense, I intended 'Neuromancer', among other things, to be a critique of all the aspects of science fiction that no longer satisfied me. ”

I think that our future has lost that capital F we used to spell it with. The science fiction future of my childhood has had a capital F - it was assumed to be an American Future because America was the future. The Future was assumed to be inherently heroic, and a lot of other things, as well. ”

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old. ”

I try to be objective about technology. Agnostic, in a sense. Whatever personal opinions I form tend to have more to do with what we find to do with the new thing. ”