William Gibson

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

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

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

The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.

On the most basic level, computers in my books are simply a metaphor for human memory: I'm interested in the hows and whys of memory, the ways it defines who and what we are, in how easily memory is subject to revision.

The internet 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.