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Zero History (Blue Ant, #3) QUOTES

Zero History (Blue Ant, #3) QUOTES

1 " When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart. "

― William Gibson , Zero History (Blue Ant, #3)

2 " She hung up before he could say goodbye. Stood there with her arm cocked, phone at ear-level, suddenly aware of the iconic nature of her unconscious pose. Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places, that had once belong to cigarettes, now belonged to phones. "

― William Gibson , Zero History (Blue Ant, #3)

3 " Our best analyst thinks it's not a tactical design. Something for mall ninjas....
Young men who dress to feel they'll be mistaken for having special capability. A species of cosplay, really. Endemic. Lots of boys are playing soldier now. The men who run the world aren't, and neither are the boys most effectively bent on running it next. Or the ones who're actually having to be soldiers, of course. But many of the rest have gone gear-queer, to one extent or another. "

― William Gibson , Zero History (Blue Ant, #3)

4 " It’s about atemporality. About opting out of the industrialization of novelty. It’s about deeper code. "

― William Gibson , Zero History (Blue Ant, #3)

5 " She was big on patination. That was how quality wore in, she said, as opposed to out. Distressing, on the other hand, was the faking of patination, and was actually a way of concealing a lack of quality. "

― William Gibson , Zero History (Blue Ant, #3)

6 " Heidi’s room looked like the aftermath of a not-very-successful airplane bombing. Something that blew open every suitcase in the luggage compartment without bringing the plane down. "

― William Gibson , Zero History (Blue Ant, #3)

7 " Addictions [...] started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn't seen, were fun. But came, through some gradual dire alchemy, to make decisions for you. Eventually, they were making your most crucial life-decisions. And they were [...] less intelligent than goldfish. "

― William Gibson , Zero History (Blue Ant, #3)

8 " Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones. "

― William Gibson , Zero History (Blue Ant, #3)

9 " Reading, his therapist had suggested, had likely been his first drug. "

― William Gibson , Zero History (Blue Ant, #3)

10 " What you need to remember, with these guys, is that they don't know they're con men. They're wildly overconfident. Omnipotence, omniscience--that's part of the mythology that surrounds the Special Forces....Your guy can walk in the door and promise training in something he personally doesn't know how to do, and not even realize he's bullshitting about his own capabilities. It's a special kind of gullibility.... "

― William Gibson , Zero History (Blue Ant, #3)

11 " Fables from before the Anaheiming. "

― William Gibson , Zero History (Blue Ant, #3)

12 " I did not come to this country for the terror from paramilitary," declared Voytek, hoarsely. "I did not come to this country for motherfucker. But motherfucker is waiting. Always. Is carceral state, surveillance state. Orwell. You have read Orwell? "

― William Gibson , Zero History (Blue Ant, #3)

13 " Hollis blew gently on the thin tan island of foam afloat in her half pint of Guinness, to see it move, then drank some. Always a mysterious beverage to her. Unsure why she’d asked for it. She liked the way it looked more than how it tasted. How would it taste, she wondered, if it tasted the way she thought it looked? No idea. "

― William Gibson , Zero History (Blue Ant, #3)

14 " Even the delusionally paranoid have enemies. "

― William Gibson , Zero History (Blue Ant, #3)

15 " Listen to your enemies,’ ” Bigend said, “ ‘for God is speaking. "

― William Gibson , Zero History (Blue Ant, #3)

16 " Why were these giant projects so relatively common in Europe? He’d grown up with the unquestioned assumption that America was the home of heroic infrastructure, but was it, now? He didn’t think so. How did they pay for these things here? Taxes? "

― William Gibson , Zero History (Blue Ant, #3)

17 " Nice bra.” “Israeli,” said Heidi. She looked around, taking in the contents of the room. “Jesus Christ,” she said. “The wallpaper’s like Hendrix’s pants.” “I think it’s satin.” Vertically striped, in green, burgundy, ecru, and black. "

― William Gibson , Zero History (Blue Ant, #3)

18 " Not that he was unconcerned with the pain he saw in Hollis’s eyes, or with the fate of her friend, but that there was some language required here that he’d never learned. "

― William Gibson , Zero History (Blue Ant, #3)

19 " Everything I know about being a fashion model in the 21st Century I learned from Jenna Sauers’ wonderful Jezebel memoir, “I Am The Anonymous Model.” Meredith’s modeling career is based on it. Available with a quick Google. "

― William Gibson , Zero History (Blue Ant, #3)

20 " Voytek is here, to fuck penguin. "

― William Gibson , Zero History (Blue Ant, #3)