William Gibson Quotes

I have always been fascinated by the way things work and how they came to take the form that they did. Writing about these things satisfies my curiosity about the made world while at the same time giving me an opportunity to design a new explanation for the processes that shape it.

I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.

A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesn't just draw things.

Tech, in the sense of... putting things together, that goes back beyond memory for me.

Engineering or Technology is the making of things that did not previously exist, whereas science is the discovering of things that have long existed.

Often when I talk about what I do, making isn't just this inevitable function tacked on at the end.

I love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something's in the world that wasn't there before.

My training and my inclination is to invent.

I'm always drooling over great design, from fashion to furniture.

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.

But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.

I do not write, I build.

I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

I love the idea of couture and its emphasis on creation. There's where I made my name - in design - and there's where I'd like to stay.

Truthfully, the hardest part about fashion is not the vision or one great idea, but the execution of each aspect.

The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.

I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

I never had the dream to be a great designer. My focus was just to do beautiful things.

I studied at a time when buildings were sterile things, and their creators were hands-off people - super-intelligent people, but you felt they didn't love the stuff buildings are made from.

Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going to contracts classes.