William Gibson Quotes

Everything will come true in cyberspace. That's the whole idea. What cyberspace is, on one level, it's simply the human imagination vivified, hardwired.

Cyberspace is the human transition into a mathematical super space where we as a collectivity become optionally a single point of view.

I removed 'cyberspace' from my vernacular. The idea, which I grew up with, of going into a place separate from the real world, is something my students just don't recognise.

'Cyberspace' is a metaphorical idea which is supposed to be the space where your consciousness is located when you're using computer technology on the Internet, for example, and I'm not entirely sure it's such a useful term, but I think that's what most people mean by it.

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

I always enjoyed going into the holodeck.

Cyberspace

Any real virtual reality enthusiast can look back at VR science fiction. It's not about playing games... 'The Matrix,' 'Snow Crash,' all this fiction was not about sitting in a room playing video games. It's about being in a parallel digital world that exists alongside our own, communicating with other people, playing with other people.

Cyberspace is where you are when you're on the telephone.

One day the virtual world might win over the real world.

All I knew about the word cyberspace when I coined it, was that it seemed like an effective buzzword. It seemed evocative and essentially meaningless. It was suggestive of something, but had no real semantic meaning, even for me, as I saw it emerge on the page.

Cyberspace is an accident of the real. Virtual reality is the accident of reality itself.

Cyberspace as a mode of being will never go away. We live in cyberspace.

Computers are very powerful tools, but in the simulated world of the computer, everything has to be calculated.

In virtual reality, we're placing the viewer inside a moment or a story... made possible by sound and visual technology that's actually tricking the brain into believing it's somewhere else.

For all the spectacle of CGI, there's something alien and unreal about that domain, like a videogame.

If you want to move through a virtual reality it’s called a video game, it’s been around forever.

The Net is pretty cool, but the physical world is the best medium ever.

The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyberworld: there’s no end of virtual spaces in which to seek stimulation, but their very endlessness, the perpetual stimulation without satisfaction, becomes imprisoning.

The artificial world that we create through images will essentially become real.

Virtual Reality is going to be an important technology. I am pretty confident about this.

Online is online. It's a whole other world. It's not actually real life.

Cyberspace, especially, draws us into the instant.

I am in the Matrix and I just took the blue pill.

Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society.