Agency — Quotes
Imported from: Clippings/Gibson-Agency.md
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Author: William Gibson Source: Goodreads
40 quotes, one page each — split at import because this page carried more quoted words than the wiki publishes on a single page.
Agency
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- “They’re still a bit in advance of the…”
- “The plus sign is a hipster ampersand…”
- “As the jackpot got seriously going, after the…”
- “Authoritarian societies are inherently corrupt, and corrupt societies…”
- “Authoritarian societies are inherently corrupt, and corrupt societies…”
- “Are you familiar with the strategic concept of…”
- “In Franklins, a million weighs twenty-two pounds. If…”
- “Nothing before the 2020s has ever seemed entirely…”
- “You feel like you have emotions, to me.’…”
- “Once again, then,” she said, “the divide between…”
- “Ash and Conner are silent. Our three locals…”
- “The drivers for the jackpot are still in…”
- “Seated here, none too comfortably, on a truncated…”
- “I dislike calling them stubs,” Lowbeer said. “They’re…”
- “You’re too young to remember it,” Verity’s mother…”
- “The City, Netherton had heard Lowbeer say, explaining…”
- “Google ‘tulpa,’” Eunice said, “you get Tibetan occult…”
- “Situational awareness…”
- “Observe, orient, decide, act…”
- “But it looks a lot like finding the…”
- “It bent its knees backward, shoulders canting slightly…”
- “Dymaxion…”
- “How do you keep this all sorted?” “My…”
- “Whatever it is, there’s a budget for illegalities.”…”
- “Untethered Noetic Irregular Support System…”
- “Is this business,” Caitlin asked, closing the door…”
- “Would someone take over the bar, at 3.7?…”
- “Climbing into her car, he found it configured…”
- “Say somebody wrote a self-replicating platform,” he said…”
- “She raced it toward the horizon, executing a…”
- “Sometimes, if DoD doubles down hard enough on…”
- “But then something about her earnestly nerdy exposition…”
- “How’s that different from being paranoid?” “Same. Except…”
- “Branch plant made the call. He’s infosec. And…”
- “It always makes me uncomfortable,” Netherton said, “to…”
- “A celebration of the president’s bravery during the…”
- “Tactical, so-called, by virtue of a Jedi-style hood…”
- “Netherton said nothing, something he’d only recently been…”
- “She tried to imagine his future London with…”
Pattern Recognition
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