Sprawl trilogy

"He was good as new. How good was that? He didn’t know. He took the things the Dutchman gave him and flew out of Singapore. Home was the next airport Hyatt."

"Wintermute was hive mind, decision maker, effecting change in the world outside. Neuromancer was personality. Neuromancer was immortality. Marie-France must have built something into Wintermute, the compulsion that had driven the thing to free itself, to unite with Neuromancer."

"Look, she said to Lanette, showing her the picture, they got this glow. It’s called money, Lanette said."

"It was raining when they got to the airport, Florida rain, pissing down warm out of a nowhere sky. [Mona Lisa] had never been to an airport before, but she knew them from the stims."

"But Neuromancer and its two sequels are not about computers. They may pretend, at times, and often rather badly, to be about computers, but really theyre about technology in some broader sense. Personally, I suspect theyre actually about Industrial Culture; about what we do with machines, what machines do with us, and how wholly unconscious (and usually unlegislated) this process has been, is, and will be. Had I actually known a great deal (by 1981 standards) about real computing, I doubt very much I would (or could) have written Neuromancer. Perhaps it all goes to prove that there are situations (literary ones, at least) in which a little knowledge is not only a dangerous thing, but the best tool for the job at hand."

"That’s interesting in itself, because it shows you how adept they were at obscurity. They used their money to keep themselves out of the news."

"Somewhere, very close, the laugh that wasnt laughter."

"Id buy him a drink, but I dont know if Id loan him any money."

"COUNT ZERO INTERRUPT—On receiving an interrupt, decrement the counter to zero."

"I think of Neuromancer as being, in a good sense, an adolescent book. Its a young mans book. It was written very young-mans-book. It was written by a man who was not very young, when he wrote it, but who was sufficiently immature."

"Its a world where there arent families. Its the world of a young person going out into the wilderness, cities, and sort of in a way creating a family. You know, its kind of like... its not that its a "goth book," but its kind of rather the same stuff that makes kids be goths."

"I am no spy." "Then start being your own. If Tokyos the frying pan, you may just have landed in the fire."