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William Gibson Interview @ AICN

Posted by michael on from the idoru dept.

Well, the slashdot crew is all out killing time and brain cells giving away the Beanie Awards at LinuxWorld (Best Real Propeller Beanie: Jay Sulzberger of the NYLUG). Look for the chock-full-of-fun wrap-up tomorrow, but in the meantime, forge5 writes "Ain't It Cool News has an excellent article on Alexandra DuPont interviewing William "FREAKING" Gibson. They talk about The Matrix, his books, and his X-Files episode. Check it out! "

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  1. Best out-of-context quote: by KodaK · · Score: 4

    This is the best out-of-context quote I think I've ever seen:

    "Well, I'm playing with it, but it hasn't yet completely entangled me. If I play with it sufficiently, it probably will."
    -- William Gibson

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    --J(K) DOS is like Unix in exactly the same way that a pinto is like an aircraft carrier.
  2. Re:my author can beat up your author by Kaa · · Score: 4

    So WHY do you prefer Gibson?

    I am not the poster you are answering, but I'll give it a try. Stephenson writes very cool, highly entertaining plot-and-software/technical-gadgets-driven fiction. I like Stephenson very much. Gibson, however, writes high literature as opposed to just fiction. He writes imagery, mood, concepts and feelings that are not expressable in three-word sentences. The genres are different -- you can like both (I do), but Gibson is much more classy.

    Gibson seems to do a Katz

    Oh-oh. If you don't understand the difference between Gibson and Katz, it's going to be hard to have a meaningful conversation with you. Read both. Think. Reread. Repeat as necessary.

    Kaa

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    Kaa
    Kaa's Law: In any sufficiently large group of people most are idiots.
  3. Offtopic: I have an addiction here. by Shoeboy · · Score: 5

    8 hours before story posts? I can't deal with that. I know the /. crew is busy at linuxworld and all - but for those of us who work for a certain company in redmond, that's not considered a good excuse.
    It's been awful. Around 7:00 PST one of my developers started twitching and muttering 'need slashdot, need slashdot.' By 8:00 he was screaming about being attacked by snakes. Then he went nuts and started attacking us. By this time the rest of us were shaking so badly we couldn't fight him off. We would have been in trouble if my non-techie boss hadn't arrived and beat him senseless with an unsold copy of MS Bob. (see, it is good for something.)
    Please don't do this again.
    I need my fix.
    --Shoeboy