The Difference Engine Quotes

“When you raise the dead, they bring their baggage.”
― William Gibson, The Difference Engine

“You can’t get clever men to fight such a system, as it makes too much sense to ’em.”
― William Gibson, The Difference Engine

“The factory might have given us the millionfold productivity increases that yielded the Industrial Revolution, but it achieved those gains by chaining us to machines, deskilling the artisan and turning him into a cog in the factory, stripped of judgment and dignity and disconnected from the rhythms of his spirit and the world around him.”
― William Gibson, The Difference Engine

“let us go somewhere where we can do some genuine, blackguard, poverty-stricken drinking, with no false gingerbread glitter thrown over everything!”
― William Gibson, The Difference Engine

“The bosses, the big'uns, they can take all manner of things away from us. With their bloody laws and factories and courts and banks...they can make the world to their pleasure, they can take away your home and kin and even the work you do. But they can't ever take what you know, now can they, Sybil? They can't ever take that".”
― William Gibson, The Difference Engine

“The bosses, the big'uns, they can take all manner of things away from us. With their bloody laws and factories and courts and banks......They can make the world to their pleasure, they can take away your home and kin and even the work you do......" Mick shrugged angrily, his lean shoulders denting the heavy fabric of the greatcoat. "And even rob a hero's daughter of her virtue, if I'm not too bold in speaking of it." He pressed her hand against his sleeve, a hard, trapping grip. "But they can't ever take what you know, now can they, Sybil? They can't ever take that.”
― William Gibson, The Difference Engine

“Why was she doing this? Because Mick was strong, and she was weak? Because he knew secrets that she didn't? For the first time it occurred to her that she might be in love with him. Perhaps she did love him, in some strange way, and if that were true, it might explain matters to her, in a way which was almost soothing. If she were in love, she had a right to burn her bridges, to walk on air, to live by impulse. And if she loved Radley, it was finally something she knew, which he didn't. Her secrets alone.”
― William Gibson, The Difference Engine

“The Negro nodded. he spread his open palms, gently, a gesture like blessing. "You were right, sir, and he was quite wrong. There is nothing to history. No progress, no justice. There is nothing but random horror”
― William Gibson, The Difference Engine

“Más que la tierra o el dinero, más que la cuna. Información. Eso es lo que importa.”
― William Gibson, The Difference Engine

“money, more than birth. Information. Very”
― William Gibson, The Difference Engine