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Initially there was nothing on [television] but “snow,” and then the nightly advent of a targetlike device called “the test pattern,” which people actually gathered to watch.

— William Gibson

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The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.

The NET is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

Shorts, she thinks, drawing abreast of this trio, are somehow always wrong in London.

Pattern Recognition (2003)

We no longer grow the full beef of bohemia, It's all veal now.

He wore an expensive-looking blue suit cut in Parisian business style, a white broadcloth shirt, and a very English-looking tie, probably from Charvet.

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