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William Gibson, born on March 17, 1948, in Conway, South Carolina, is a groundbreaking science fiction author renowned for pioneering the cyberpunk genre. His seminal work, "Neuromancer," published in 1984, introduced readers to a gritty, high-tech future and concepts like cyberspace that have since permeated popular culture. Gibson’s explorations of technology, identity, and society have established him as a visionary, shaping the way we perceive the digital age. His legacy continues to inspire writers and thinkers, making him a pivotal figure in speculative literature.

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"Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort."

William Gibson

"The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet."

William Gibson

"Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes."

William Gibson
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"The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it."

William Gibson

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

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"It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information."

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"Time moves in one direction, memory in another."

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"I've never really been very interested in computers themselves. I don't watch them; I watch how people behave around them. That's becoming more difficult to do because everything is around them."

William Gibson
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