The future is there… looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.
– William Gibson
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- Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window. – Peter F Drucker
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- The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed. – William Gibson
- The future is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet. – William Gibson
- It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. – Mark Twain
- Do you think that anger is a sincere emotion, or just the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain? – Andrea Gibson
- Life is about trying to find our ways back to our one shared soul. When we’re looking out at the stars, we’re looking into ourselves. – Edward Fahey
- Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. – Yann Martel
- Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. – Yann Martel
- Then sense. Use your sense. Not all of us are born for greatness, but all of us have sense. Make use of it. Think. Think long and well. – Richard Llewellyn
- That’s something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applications turn up on a battlefield, or in a gallery. – William Gibson
- His smile was the nightmare in my back pocket.(Speaking about Ronald Reagan) – William Gibson
- When you want to know how things really work, study them when they’re coming apart. – William Gibson
- Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye. – William Gibson
- Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky. – William Gibson
- Secrets…are the very root of cool. – William Gibson
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- Eternity is not just looking to the future and our place with God in Heaven, but it is looking at our Eternity as if it were only moments away. – Beth Nimmo
- Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense. – William Thomson
- Become the destroyer of sects – become the breaker of privileges -“ become the messenger of equality -“ become the prophet of goodness. – Abhijit Naskar
- When we become silent, we become whole. And when we become whole, we become holy. – Swami Dhyan Giten
- When we become silent, we become whole. And when we become whole, we become holy. – Swami Dhyan Giten
- Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience. – Joyce Rachelle
- Non fiction? Non fiction?! Listen, reality is what got me into this mess in the first place. – Justin Alcala
- Fiction described reality better than non-fiction. – Tommy Wallach
- General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else. – Marvin Minsky
- I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows. – EM Forster
- Memory is like fiction: or else it’s fiction that’s like memory. – Haruki Murakami
- Memory is like fiction: or else it’ fiction that’s like memory. – Haruki Murakami
- All story fiction is both truth that happens and never happens. Fiction is always about humanity, even if no subject is humanitarian or even human. – Richard Bunning
- We make fiction because we are fiction … It lived us into being and it lives us still. – Russell Hoban
- Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction. – John Cheever
- Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn’t. – Neil Gaiman
- I’d always had a guilty preference for fiction. Since I seemed now to be living fiction, this proved to have been an entirely reasonable choice. – Robin McKinley
- The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable. – Mark Twain
- To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention. – Ursula K Le Guin
- I don’t want to write soft, easy fiction; I want to write fiction that challenges. – Brian A McBride
- I love science fiction, always have, always will. But it’s the kind of science fiction that I love which I think is an important distinction. – Matthew S Williams