William Gibson

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

“We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios.”

“I don't have a formal model of the world in my head. I have a feeling of what's going on.”

“When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.”

“Things aren't different. Things are things.”

“The street finds its own uses for things.”

“I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.”

“The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.”

“Secrets are the very root of cool.”

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

“The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.”

“Time moves in one direction, memory in another.”

“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.”

“The future has a way of arriving unannounced.”

“Information is a verb, not a noun.”