The NET is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
Name of an article he wrote for New York Times Magazine (14 July 1996)
The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.
All Tomorrow's Parties (novel)|All Tomorrow's Parties (2003), p. 21
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
They damaged his nervous system with a wartime Russian mycotoxin. Strapped to a bed in a Memphis hotel, his talent burning out micron by micron, he hallucinated for thirty hours.The damage was minute, subtle, and utterly effective. For Case, who'd lived for the bodiless exultation of cyberspace, it was the Fall.
They'd left the place littered with the abstract white forms of the foam packing units, with crumpled plastic film and hundreds of tiny foam beads. The Ono-Sendai; next year's most expensive Hosaka computer; a Sony monitor; a dozen disks of corporate-grade ice; a Braun coffee maker.
"Hey," he'd said, "it's me. Case." The old eyes regarding him out of their dark webs of wrinkled flesh. "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste." The bartender shrugged. "I came back." The man shook his massive, stubbled head. "Night City is not a place one returns to, artiste," he said, swabbing the bar in front of Case with a filthy cloth, the pink manipulator whining.
The cutting of Sense/Net's ice took a total of nine days. "I said a week," Armitage said, unable to conceal his satisfaction when Case showed him his plan for the run. "You took your own good time." "Balls," Case said, smiling at the screen. "That's good work, Armitage." "Yes," Armitage admitted, "but don't let it go to your head. Compared to what you'll eventually be up against, this is an arcade toy."
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...
Don' 'stand you, mon, but we mus' move by Jah Love, each one
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(born 1948) is an American-Canadian science fiction author.
William Gibson may also refer to:
Association football
- Will Gibson
William "Will" Gibson was a Scottish footballer who played for Sunderland as a Midfielder.-Club career:...
(born 1869), Scottish footballer
- Willie Gibson (footballer born 1898)
William "Willie" Gibson was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a left half.-Career:Born in Larkhall, Gibson played for Ayr United, before moving to Newcastle United, where he made over 120 appearances in the Football League....
, Scottish footballer who played for Newcastle United
- Billy Gibson (footballer born 1981), Scottish footballer currently playing for Alloa Athletic
- Willie Gibson (footballer born 1984), Scottish footballer who currently plays for Crawley Town
- Billy Gibson (footballer born 1990)
William Michael Hubert 'Billy' Gibson is an English footballer. He is a right midfielder currently playing for Yeovil Town after being released by Watford. He has also played for Wealdstone.-Watford:...
, English footballer currently playing for Yeovil Town
Politicians
- William Gibson (Australian politician) (1869–1955)
- William Gibson (Canadian politician) (1849–1914), Canadian Member of Parliament and Senator
- William Gibson (Member of Parliament)
William Gibson was a Canadian politician.Born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland and educated in Scotland, Gibson came to British North America in 1839 and first settled at Burrit's Rapids where he operated a flour mill. He then moved to Spencerville where he built and operated another mill...
(1815–1890), Canadian Independent Liberal Member of Parliament
- William Gibson (Northern Irish politician)
William Gibson was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Gibson studied at the Royal University of Ireland before becoming a general practitioner. He was elected to local posts in Belfast; for example, becoming a Poor Law Guardian for Ballymacarrett in 1895...
, Member of the Senate of Northern Ireland
- William Gibson, 2nd Baron Ashbourne
William Gibson, 2nd Baron Ashbourne was born at 20 Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin, the son of Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne and Frances Maria Adelaide Colles, grand-daughter of Abraham Colles and niece of John Dawson Mayne.He was educated at Harrow School, Trinity College, Dublin and Merton...
(1868–1942), Anglo-Irish Member of Parliament
- William Kennedy Gibson
William Kennedy Gibson was an Irish footballer and political activist.Although born in Glasgow, Gibson's family were from Belfast, and Gibson moved there at a young age. Gibson was a talented footballer who played for Cliftonville F.C. while still at school...
(1876-1949), Irish footballer and politician
Other
- William Gibson (bishop)
William Gibson was an English Roman Catholic bishop who served as the Vicar Apostolic of the Northern District from 1790 to 1821.Born in Stonecroft, near Hexham, Northumberland on 2 February 1738, the son of Jasper Gibson and Margaret Gibson . He was ordained to the priesthood in 1764...
(1738–1821), Vicar Apostolic of the Northern District of England
- William Gibson (historian)
William Thomas Gibson is a historian, academic, and professor who specialises in the history of religion in Britain in the early modern period.-Education:...
(born 1959), British historian, academic, writer, and professor
- William Gibson (ice hockey)
William James "Bill, Billy" Gibson was a Canadian ice hockey player.He was born in Lethbridge, Alberta....
, Canadian hockey player
- William Gibson (martyr)
Blessed William Gibson was martyred by Anglicans at York for professing the Roman Catholic faith. He was from Ripon, in Yorkshire....
(1548–1596), English Catholic martyr
- William Gibson (NAACP)
Dr. William Gibson was an African American dentist who served as chair of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 1985 to 1995....
, (1932–2002), American dentist and chairman of NAACP
- William Gibson (playwright)
William Gibson was an American playwright and novelist. He graduated from the City College of New York in 1938.He was of Irish, French, German, Dutch and Russian ancestry...
(1914–2008), American playwright, author of The Miracle Worker
- William Hamilton Gibson
William Hamilton Gibson was an American illustrator, author and naturalist.-Biography:Gibson was born in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, of an old, distinguished New England family; one of his great-great-grandfathers was the jurist Richard Dana , who was the great-grandfather of the famous author...
(1850–1896), American illustrator, author and naturalist
- William Gibson-Craig (1797–1878), Scottish Advocate and politician
- William Gibson Sloan
William Gibson Sloan , was a Plymouth Brethren evangelist to the Faroe Islands and Shetland....
(1838–1914), Plymouth Brethren evangelist
- Bill Gibson (1951- ), drummer for Huey Lewis and the News
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