"You know, what is actually stranger than having people do theses about your work, is to have people build this demented shit that you dreamed up, when you were trying to make some sort of point about industrial society". - 1989 Interview in Virus 23
"Google Cayce and you will find "coolhunter," and if you look closely you may see it suggested that she is a "sensitive" of some kind, a dowser in the world of global marketing."
"'Idol singer.' She is Rei Toei. She is a personality-construct,
a congeries of software agents, the creation of information-designers."
"The Walled City is a concept of scale." ...
"Thirty three thousand people inhabited the original.
Two point seven hectares."
"A week later he was in Tokyo, his face reflected in an elevator's gold-veined mirror for his three-floor ascent of the agressively nondescript
O My Golly Building.
To be admitted to
Death Cube K,
apparently a Franz Kafka theme bar."
"Rydel looked down at the glasses and saw that the lenses were black now.
"'Go on,' Warbaby said.
...
"Just behind Warbaby, hung on some invisible wall, were words, numbers,
bright yellow. They came into focus as he looked at them, somehow losing Warbaby, and
he saw
that they were forensic stats."
"They'd left his mother with Mrs. Baker, watching Spacehunter on the TV. They were both real excited about that because they said it was Molly Ringwald's first film." [Buy DVD from Amazon.com]
(1993 Presentation)
Speeches by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling National Academy of Sciences Convocation on Technology and Education Washington D. C., May 10, 1993
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