“A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last th...” — William Gibson Quote

“A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged.”

“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.”

“I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is really, really poor! If you look at the whole history of science fiction, what people have said is going to happen, what writers have said is going to happen, and what actually happened - it's terrible.”

“When I was 22 I didn't know how to manage my career or assimilate success.”

“When you're a child, you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor.”

“I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot.”