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William Gibson

"I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary."

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"I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary."

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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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"Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old."
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