{"author":"William Gibson","author_id":"William+Gibson","total_quotes":67,"quotes":[{"text":"One of the liberating effects of science fiction when I was a teenager was precisely its ability to tune me into all sorts of strange data and make me realize that I wasn’t as totally isolated in perceiving the world as being monstrous and crazy.","author":"William Gibson","tags":["science-fiction"],"id":384,"author_id":"William+Gibson"},{"text":"And the Flatline aligned the nose of Kuang's sting with the center of the dark below. And dove. Case's sensory input warped with their velocity. His mouth filled with an aching taste of blue. His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sounds of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine spines. The spines split, bisected, split again, exponential growth under the dome of the Tessier-Ashpool ice.","author":"William Gibson","tags":["fantasy","future","matrix","science","science-fiction"],"id":5018,"author_id":"William+Gibson"},{"text":"I like the idea of people who've had some success in one form secretly wanting to be something else; I have some of that myself. I look for it in other people who've established themselves in some particular art form, and then you find out that they really would like to design running shoes, or edit literary magazines or something.","author":"William Gibson","tags":["success","art","myself "],"id":6847,"author_id":"William+Gibson"},{"text":"I would like to design what people generally call streetwear. I'd like to dress skateboarders, or whatever the older equivalent of skateboarders are. I pay more attention to that stuff than anyone would ever imagine because I'm watching what the designers do.","author":"William Gibson","tags":["dress","people","attention "],"id":14590,"author_id":"William+Gibson"},{"text":"Paranoia, he said, was fundamentally egocentric, and every conspiracy theory served in some way to aggrandize the believer.But he was also fond of saying, at other times, that even paranoid schizophrenics have enemies.","author":"William Gibson","tags":["ego","paranoia"],"id":27983,"author_id":"William+Gibson"},{"text":"There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.","author":"William Gibson","tags":["fashion","labels","social-commentary","society","trends"],"id":38565,"author_id":"William+Gibson"},{"text":"They'd run all these tests on him and decided he wasn't racist. He wasn't, either, but not because he thought about it particularly. He just couldn't see the point. It just made for a lot of hassle, being that way, so why be that way? Nobody was going to go back and live where they lived before, were they, and if they did (he vaguely suspected) there wouldn't be any Mongolian barbecue and maybe we'd all be listening to Pentecostal Metal and anyway the President was black.","author":"William Gibson","tags":["racism"],"id":42903,"author_id":"William+Gibson"},{"text":"If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything.","author":"William Gibson","tags":["great","thought","you "],"id":47893,"author_id":"William+Gibson"},{"text":"Things aren't different. Things are things.","author":"William Gibson","tags":["philosophical"],"id":48075,"author_id":"William+Gibson"},{"text":"She held out her hands, palms up, the white fingers lightly spread, and with a barely audible click, ten double-edged, four-centimeter scalpel blades slid from their housings beneath the burgundy nails.She smiled. The blades slowly withdrew.","author":"William Gibson","tags":["science-fiction"],"id":49040,"author_id":"William+Gibson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":67,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}