A Quote by William Gibson

I think the large part of the function of the Internet is it is archival. It's unreliable to the extent that word on the street is unreliable. It's no more unreliable than that. You can find the truth on the street if you work at it. I don't think of the Internet or the virtual as being inherently inferior to the so-called real.

William Gibson

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Quote Author

William Gibson
American - Writer
Born: March 17, 1948

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James Gleick

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Norman Lock

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Lillian Hellman

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