William Gibson Quotes

As technology evolves, it manipulates our culture, and there's a huge opportunity to push ourselves further. I think it actually makes ourselves maybe more human, or at least human in a different way, that we can connect together in amazingly different ways and powerful new ways.

Computers are the most powerful tools that humanity has ever created. Yet, we treat them largely as a black box; as if it were an alien artifact that magically appeared on desks, in homes, and in our pockets.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.

We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.

I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.

We know in our hearts that technology at its best should make us feel even more human than we currently feel. Sometimes it makes us feel less human.

I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.

How do we judge whether technology is making us more productive, or just lazy and impatient?

Technology is changing the way we interact as humans.

Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.

I always had an interest in seeing people within their environments.

I am a great enthusiast and early adopter of technology, but sometimes I wonder whether the inexorable integration of technology in our lives could diminish some of our quintessential human capacities, such as compassion and cooperation.

Even quicker than the development of super-technology is the human adaptation to taking it for granted. We live in a world where regular people converse publicly with an inanimate object and escape Bedlam or a dunking.

I love to study people, and that's basically what sociology is.

People fascinate the hell out of me. I never get tired of watching people, listening to people. The best part is not getting up in front of people but meeting people.

It was obvious that computers were going to become more a part of our lives, and they will continue to unless something dramatic happens to change that.

You can't think of technology as separate from all of our human drama anymore.

There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.

Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines.

In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed "unwittingly," the writer scowling naively and the diners wondering, What the hell is he doing?

The reason I was able to give up smoking was because of the computer. You couldn't lean a cigarette on a computer, like you could on a typewriter. So it just made it that much more difficult to smoke. So I quit.

We all have friends we love dearly that couldn't pass for human in a strict Turing test.

It's pretty amazing to go from a world where computers were unheard of and very complex to where they're a tool of everyday life.

Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself.