Cyberpunk Quotes

Quotes from cyberpunk literature and film, as well as pre- and post-cyberpunk.

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The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn’t understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

Eric Schmidt (via dystopiantimes)

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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

William Gibson, Neuromancer

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You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity.

Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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Be grateful that you only see the outward man. Be grateful that you never see the passions, the hatreds, the jealousies, the malice, the sicknesses… Be grateful you rarely see the frightening truth in people.

Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man

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Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.

Cory Doctorow, Little Brother

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I can’t go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

Cory Doctorow, Little Brother

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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

Isaac Asimov

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The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.

Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon

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Have you any idea how successful censorship is on TV? Don’t know the answer? Hmm. Successful, isn’t it?

Max Headroom, Max Headroom

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It’s impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. Fragments that can be retrieved, amplified…

William Gibson, Johnny Mnemonic

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In a way, staring into a computer screen is like staring into an eclipse. It’s brilliant and you don’t realize the damage until its too late.

Bruce Sterling

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His mouth filled with an aching taste of blue. His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines.

William Gibson, Neuromancer

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I'm queueing up some of my favourite quotes from the archives. Again, if you have a quote from cyberpunk literature, film, or television, or from any other source, submit it to Cyberpunk Quotes.

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The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

William Gibson

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No matter where you go, everyone's connected.

Lain Iwakura, Serial Experiments: Lain

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An imagination is a powerful tool. It can tint memories of the past, shade perceptions of the present, or paint a future so vivid that it can entice... or terrify, all depending upon how we conduct ourselves today.

Jim Davis

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And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

William Gibson, Count Zero