Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr
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William Gibson is one of history's most quotable sf writers: "The future is here, it's not evenly distributed"; "Don't let the little fuckers generation-gap you"; "Cyberspace is everting"; and the immortal: "The street finds its own uses for things":

en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_

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Two boxers squaring off. One (with blue gloves) has the head of William Gibson. The other (red gloves) has the head of Margaret Thatcher. The background is an engraving of a 16th century complex machine. Image: Dylan Parker (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Uncle_Gibby.jpg CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en
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