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William Ford Gibson é um escritor américo-canadense de ficção especulativa. Chamado de "profeta noir" do cyberpunk, subgênero da ficção científica, Gibson cunhou o termo "ciberespaço", em seu conto Burning Chrome e posteriormente popularizou o conceito em seu romance de estréia e obra mais conhecida, Neuromancer, de 1984, primeiro volume da aclamada trilogia Sprawl. Prevendo o ciberespaço, Gibson criou uma iconografia para a era da informação antes da onipresença da internet na década de 1990. Também é creditado a ele a previsão do surgimento da "televisão de realidade/reality show" e de estabelecer as bases conceituais para o rápido crescimento de ambientes virtuais como jogos e internet.

Gibson é um dos mais conhecidos escritores de ficção científica norte-americana, festejado pelo The Guardian em 1999 como "provavelmente o mais importante romancista das duas décadas passadas". Ele tem escrito mais de vinte contos e nove romances aclamados pela crítica , e contribuiu com artigos para várias importantes publicações e colaborou bastante com performances de artistas, cineastas e músicos. Seu pensamento tem sido citado como uma influência em autores de ficção científica, design, acadêmico, cibercultura e tecnologia.

É também roteirista, tendo escrito o roteiro do filme Johnny Mnemonic - O Cyborg do Futuro baseado em um conto escrito por ele em 1981, dois episódios da série de televisão Arquivo X e o primeiro roteiro de Alien 3 que foi posteriormente reescrito e modificado.

Os conceitos e ideias de Gibson influenciaram diretamente a trilogia cinematográfica Matrix, de autoria das Irmãs Wachowski. Wikipedia  

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William Gibson Frases famosas

“Antes de diagnosticar a si mesmo com depressão ou baixa auto-estima, primeiro tenha certeza de que você não está, de fato, cercado por idiotas.”

William Gibson

“Como eu tenho dito muitas vezes, o futuro já chegou. Só não está uniformemente distribuido.”

William Gibson

"As I've said many times, the future is already here. It's just not very evenly distributed."
Foi dito durante uma entrevista para NPR interview http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1067220 (30 de novembro de 1999)
William Gibson pai do movimento ciberpunk

“Olhou para trás, quando a porta de plástico se fechou, e viu os olhos dela refletidos numa gaiola de neon vermelho.”

William Gibson

Neuromancer

William Gibson: Frases em inglês

“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.”

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No Maps for These Territories (2000)

“Have you ever considered the relationship of clinical paranoia to the phenomenon of religious conversion?”

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William Gibson livro Mona Lisa Overdrive

Fonte: Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988), Ch. 13

“They'd left the place littered with the abstract white forms of the foam packing units, with crumpled plastic film and hundreds of tiny foam beads. The Ono-Sendai; next year's most expensive Hosaka computer; a Sony monitor; a dozen disks of corporate-grade ice; a Braun coffee maker.”

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William Gibson livro Neuromancer

Neuromancer (1984)

“As I luxuriate in the discovery that I am no special sponge for sorrow, but merely another fallible animal in this stone maze of a city, I come simultaneously to see that I am the focus of some vast device fueled by an obscure desire.”

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William Gibson livro Count Zero

On Marly Krushkhova
Count Zero (1986)

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

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William Gibson

Intelligence Squared on 'Zero History' with Cory Doctorow https://soundcloud.com/intelligence2/william-gibson-on-zero-history (5th October 2010)

“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.”

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William Gibson

No Maps for These Territories (2000)

“He’d grown up in white Jersey stringtowns where nobody knew shit about anything and hated anybody who did.”

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William Gibson livro Mona Lisa Overdrive

Fonte: Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988), Ch. 2

“The stick-on holograms had actually had some effect on Bobby, because religion was now something he felt he’d considered and put aside. Basically, the way he figured it, there were just some people around who needed that shit, and he guessed there always had been, but he wasn’t one of them, so he didn’t.”

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William Gibson livro Count Zero

Fonte: Count Zero (1986), Ch. 6

“As new technologies search out and lace over every interstice in the net of global communication, we find ourselves with increasingly less excuse for…slack. And that, I would argue, is what the World Wide Web, the test pattern for whatever will become the dominant global medium, offers us. Today, in its clumsy, larval, curiously innocent way, it offers us the opportunity to waste time…It will probably evolve into something considerably less random, and less fun — we seem to have a knack for that — but in the meantime, in its gloriously unsorted Global Ham Television Postcard Universes phase, surfing the Web is a procrastinator’s dream. And people who see you doing it might even imagine you’re working.”

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William Gibson livro Distrust That Particular Flavor

"The Net Is a Waste of Time," The New York Times Magazine, July 14, 1996.
Distrust That Particular Flavor (2012)

“In the age of wooden television in the South where I grew up, leisure involved sitting on screened porches, smoking cigarettes, drinking iced tea, engaging in conversation, and staring into space. It might also involve fishing. Sometimes the Web does remind me of fishing.”

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William Gibson livro Distrust That Particular Flavor

"The Net Is a Waste of Time," The New York Times Magazine, July 14, 1996.
Distrust That Particular Flavor (2012)

“I was born in 1948. I can’t recall a world before television…Initially there was nothing on it but “snow,” and then the nightly advent of a targetlike device called “the test pattern,” which people actually gathered to watch.
I imagine that the World Wide Web and its modest wonders are no more than the test pattern for whatever the twenty-first century will regard as its equivalent medium.”

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William Gibson livro Distrust That Particular Flavor

"The Net Is a Waste of Time," The New York Times Magazine, July 14, 1996.
Distrust That Particular Flavor (2012)

“My first impulse, when presented with any spanking-new piece of computer hardware, is to imagine how it will look in ten years’ time, gathering dust under a card table in a thrift shop. And it probably will.”

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William Gibson livro Distrust That Particular Flavor

"My Obsession," Wired, issue 7.01. 1999.
Distrust That Particular Flavor (2012)

“For more than three decades the Americans had been gradually sliding into isolationism and industrial decline. Space, he thought ruefully, they should have gone into space. He'd never understood the strange paralysis of will that had seemed to grip their brilliant early efforts. Or perhaps it was simply a failure of imagination, of vision.”

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William Gibson Burning Chrome

"Red Star, Winter Orbit"
Burning Chrome (short story anthology, 1986)

“Vasopressin makes you remember, I mean really remember. Clinically they use the stuff to counter senile amnesia, but the street finds its own uses for things.”

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William Gibson Burning Chrome

Burning Chrome (short story anthology, 1986)
Fonte: "Burning Chrome" (The Burning Chrome anthology was named after this short story, originally published in Omni, 1982)

“The world hadn't ever had so many moving parts or so few labels.”

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William Gibson Sprawl trilogy

Fonte: Sprawl trilogy, Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988), Chapter 39, "Too Much"

“In cyberspace there are no shadows.”

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William Gibson Sprawl trilogy

Fonte: Sprawl trilogy, Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988), Chapter 37, "Cranes"

“I'm going to level with you. I'm away for a while. But there's no cash on the premises, no drugs, and the pit bull's tested positive. Twice.”

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William Gibson Blue Ant trilogy

She doesn't leave a message.
Fonte: Blue Ant trilogy, Pattern Recognition (2003), Chapter 36, "The Dig" (Parkaboy's outgoing message)

“Life is more difficult for the serious artist. Time is money, but also money is money.”

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William Gibson Blue Ant trilogy

Fonte: Blue Ant trilogy, Pattern Recognition (2003), Chapter 26, "SIGINT"

“You care passionately about this thing…That is what makes you so valuable. That and your talents, your allergies, your tame pathologies, the things that make you a secret legend in the world of marketing.”

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William Gibson Blue Ant trilogy

Fonte: Blue Ant trilogy, Pattern Recognition (2003), Chapter 7, "The Proposition" (Bigend to Cayce, about the footage)

“There is that mirror−world ingestion of archaic substances, she thinks: People smoke, and drink as though it were good for you, and seem to still be in some sort of honeymoon phase with cocaine.”

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William Gibson Blue Ant trilogy

Fonte: Blue Ant trilogy, Pattern Recognition (2003), Chapter 1, "The Website of Dreadful Night"

“I have already told you of the sickness and confusion that comes with time travelling.”

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William Gibson Jackpot trilogy

Jackpot trilogy, The Peripheral (2014)
Fonte: Epigraph, taken from H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, chapter 11.

“I wish I had a book.”

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William Gibson Blue Ant trilogy

There were a few expensively bound and weirdly neutered bookazines here, but he knew from glancing through them that these were bland advertisements for being wealthy, wealthy and deeply, witheringly unimaginative.
Reading, his therapist had suggested, had likely been his first drug.
Fonte: Blue Ant trilogy, Zero History (2010), Chapter 18, "140" (Milgrim in London)

“Mirror-world. The plugs on appliances are huge, triple−pronged, for a species of current that only powers electric chairs, in America. Cars are reversed, left to right, inside; telephone handsets have a different weight, a different balance; the covers of paperbacks look like Australian money.”

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William Gibson Blue Ant trilogy

Fonte: Blue Ant trilogy, Pattern Recognition (2003), Chapter 1, "The Website of Dreadful Night"

“Security wants to know you're a player. Otherwise, you'd steal. Boomzilla understands that.”

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William Gibson Bridge trilogy

Fonte: Bridge trilogy, All Tomorrow's Parties‎ (1999), Chapter 37, "A Little Shit Money"

“There was a looseness to this, beyond her experience of chatbots, but a wariness as well.”

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William Gibson Jackpot trilogy

Fonte: Jackpot trilogy, Agency (2020), Chapter 3, "App Whisperer" (Verity reflecting on Eunice's conversational style)

“If I was looking to be depressed, I’d come to the right place.”

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William Gibson livro The Winter Market

"The Winter Market"
Burning Chrome (short story anthology, 1986)

“There was coffee. Life would go on.”

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William Gibson livro The Winter Market

"The Winter Market"
Burning Chrome (short story anthology, 1986)