William Gibson Quotes

I'm a PC guy.

My perspective is this: my allegiance is to the best product for my needs. For a computer, this means Macintosh. For phone and tablet, this means Android.

We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products.

You are who you surround yourself with. I know that's such a cliche quote, but it's true.

The people that you have around you are your biggest influence.

I don't think you can totally judge a girl based on her circle of friends and loved ones, but I think it's nice to see where she's spending her time.

You're the average of the five people you spend your time with.

I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.

More than a few studies have shown that the five people you spend the most time with represent you - so you need to decide - who do you want to be?

I have a PC. My sons have a Mac and swear by it, but I have a couple PC's.

The people you end up hanging out with are the people you become.

People will, in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you upon that which they have of your friends; and there is a Spanish proverb which says vry justly, 'Tell me whom you live with, and I will tell you who you are.'

You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.

Who you spend time with is who you become! Change your life by consciously choosing to surround yourself with people with higher standards!

My older brother was cool, so I was suddenly cool by association. And I totally dusted all my old math friends.

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.

The adolescent does not develop her identity and individuality by moving outside her family. She is not triggered by some magic unconscious dynamic whereby she rejects her family in favour of her peers or of a larger society.... She continues to develop in relation to her parents. Her mother continues to have more influence over her than either her father or her friends.

The fastest way to become rich is to socialize with the poor; the fastest way to become poor is to socialize with the rich.

I played soccer because my friends did. Besides we got sodas afterwards.

Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.

Rich people take advice from people who are richer than they are. Poor people take advice from their friends, who are just as broke as they are.

We believe that when we choose anything, judge a stranger and even fall in love, we understand the principal factors that influenced us. Very often nothing could be further from the truth. As a result, many of our most basic assumptions about ourselves, and society, are false.

Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.