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  • A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged.

    Careers   Two   Labels  
  • For me, the best thing about cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me. Now I just pretend that the whole thing is two miles below the moon’s surface, and that half the people’s right-brains have been eaten by roboticized steel rats. And suddenly it’s interesting again.

    Moon   Shopping   Two  
    "What Is Cyberpunk?". www.rudyrucker.com. February, 1986.
  • Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.

  • For me as a kid, reading cyberpunk was like seeing the world for the first time. Gibson's Neuromancer wasn't just stylistically stunning; it felt like the template for a future that we were actively building. I remember reading Sterling's Islands in the Net and suddenly understanding the disruptive potential of technology once it got out into the street. Cyberpunk felt urgent. It wasn't the future 15 minutes out - it was the future sideswiping you and leaving you in a full-body cast as it passed by.

    "How Cyberpunk Saved Sci-Fi" by Paolo Bacigalupi, www.wired.com. June 20, 2012.
  • Japan is a wonderful country, a strange mixture of ancient mystique and cyberpunk saturation. It's a monolith of society's achievements, yet maintains a foothold in the past, creating an amazing backdrop for tourings and natives alive. Japan captures the imagination like no other. You never feel quite so far from home as you do in Japan, yet there are no other people on the planet that make you feel as comfortable.

  • To me there's very few actresses who've had twenty years experience who have that cyberpunk aesthetic already baked in. Scarlett Johansson comes from such edgy films from Lost in Translation to Under the Skin - she's got an incredible body of work and the attitude and the toughness of her really is to me, the Major.

    Attitude   Skins   Film  
    Source: www.gamesradar.com
  • The 'Net is a waste of time.

    "The Net Is a Waste of Time". The New York Times Magazine column, www.nytimes.com. July 14, 1996.
  • Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

    Time   Memories   Moving  
    William Gibson (2012). “Distrust That Particular Flavor”, p.37, Penguin
  • The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.

    Color   Sky   Television  
    Neuromancer ch. 1 (1984)
  • As far as I know Misha wrote the first cyberpunk poetry.

  • In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.

  • Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.

  • When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.

    William Gibson (2010). “Zero History”, p.183, Penguin
  • Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.

    1984 Neuromancer. This is the first recorded use of the term 'cyberspace'.
  • The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly with peers over networks. Digital technology would create tremendous slack, allow us to apply its asynchronous, decentralized qualities to our own work and lives.

    Home   Technology   Ideas  
    "Living In The Present Is A Disorder". Interview with R.U. Sirius, www.wired.com. April 8, 2013.
  • Anything that can be done to a rat can be done to a human being. And we can do most anything to rats. This is a hard thing to think about, but it's the truth. It won't go away because we cover our eyes. THAT is cyberpunk.

  • I wanted to make room for antiheroes.

  • The street finds its own uses for things.

    Use   Streets   Cyberpunk  
    William Gibson (2012). “Distrust That Particular Flavor”, p.14, Penguin
  • And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

    Money   Eye   Blue  
    William Gibson (1987). “Count Zero”, p.24, Penguin
  • For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.

    Heart   Boys   Years  
    William Gibson (1974). “A season in heaven: being the log of an expedition after that legendary beast, cosmic consciousness”, Scribner
  • A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.

    Light   Data   Cities  
    1984 Neuromancer. This is the first recorded use of the term 'cyberspace'.
  • It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.

    William Gibson (2014). “Burning Chrome”, p.17, Harper Collins
  • I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign.

    William Gibson (2012). “Distrust That Particular Flavor”, p.22, Penguin
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