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Quotes from No Maps for These Territories — William Gibson

born 1948 Canada

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All any drug amounts to is tweaking the incoming data. You have to be incredibly self-centered or pathetic to be satisfied with simply tweaking the incoming data.

No Maps for These Territories (2000)

I think of religions as franchise operations. Like chicken franchise operations. But that doesn't mean there's no chicken, right?

No Maps for These Territories (2000)

Seated each afternoon in the darkened screening room, Halliday came to recognize the targeted numerals of the Academy leader as sigils preceding the dream state of a film.

No Maps for These Territories (2000)

I didn't imagine that art girls in the Midwest would be flashing their tits in cyberspace...but I'm glad that they're doing it.

No Maps for These Territories (2000)

It will bring about the extinction of the nation-state as we know it... I think it will be as big a deal as the creation of cities.

No Maps for These Territories (2000)

The straight world didn't end. The straight world and the other world had bled into one another and produced the world that we live in today.

No Maps for These Territories (2000)

Acceptance. Acceptance of the impermanence of being. And acceptance of the imperfect nature of being, or possibly the perfect nature of being, depending on how one looks at it. Acceptance that this is not a rehearsal. That this is it.

No Maps for These Territories (2000)

Drugs were absolutely central to that experience, but they weren't essential. I only know that in retrospect. At the time I'm sure I would have said that they were.

No Maps for These Territories (2000)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Gibson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.