William Gibson Quotes

I try to be objective about technology. Agnostic, in a sense. Whatever personal opinions I form tend to have more to do with what we find to do with the new thing.

I'm a poster child for Luddites. It was a challenge for me to open myself up the tech world.

I'm not actually terrified of technology. Though I'm certainly not an early adopter, either.

Wherever technology's going, we're cool with it. We're definitely promoters of kids trying out new stuff.

If we look at the life cycle of technologies, we see an early period of over-enthusiasm, then a 'bust' when disillusionment sets in, followed by the real revolution.

I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.

Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.

To criticize Facebook is to criticize the telephone.

I have been a member of the Microsoft-bashing society for quite some time.

I never read reviews of something I want to see.

In my opinion, right now there's way too much hype on the technologies and not enough attention to the real businesses behind them.

I am not gadgety at all. It's not that I'm appalled by technology, but I've taken my time acquiring any of it.

I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.

I'm platform agnostic. I've been platform agnostic ever since I went online.

A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.

History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it.

One must be careful not to prejudge the past.

I'm kind of odd; I'm a technophobe who isn't a technophobe. I'm afraid of new things, but eventually I love them. That happened with Twitter.

For me, it's always more interesting to look at things when you don't really have a horse in the race, so to speak.

I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.

New technology is not good or evil in and of itself. It's all about how people choose to use it.

I'm of the older generation. I accept the new technology, but I try to keep a bit of that away.

I'm not representing anyone - not Israelis, not Palestinians - I'm just a storyteller trying to raise more questions than give answers.

I've always been a little scared of technology, which is why I explore it.

I've never met a skeptic of VR who has tried it.