William Gibson

Born 17 March 1948

From Conway, South Carolina, United States · Nationality: Canada, United States · Writes fiction

William Ford Gibson is an American-Canadian writer who has been called the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in his short story "Burning Chrome" and later popularized the concept in his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984).

Quotes

“The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.”
He is reported to have first said this in an interview on Fresh Air, NPR 31 Aug
“Hell of a world we live in…” / “That’s right,” I said, “or even worse, it could be perfect.”
Burning Chrome short story collection, 1986
“Time moves in one direction, memory in another. / We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.”
Distrust That Particular Flavor
“My first impulse, when presented with any spanking-new piece of computer hardware, is to imagine how it will look in ten years’ time, gathering dust under a card table in a thrift shop. And it probably will.”
Distrust That Particular Flavor