“This is the most extraordinary young man that has encountered my knowledge. It is wonderful how the whelp has written such things.”

“Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.”

“[O]ne must have a certain amount of both intelligence and knowledge to be amazed even at the most extraordinary things.”

“I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”

“Man achieves in life only by commanding the capabilities nature has given him, or by creating them within himself by education and by knowing how to profit by the difficulties encountered.”

“I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an enormous room.”

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

“When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself”

“And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a great explorer who has discovered some extraordinary land from which he can never return to give his knowledge to the world: but the name of this land is hell.”

“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.”