This book is truly a classic that I read in the 80's it has stood the test of time. It has only has gotten better as the layers of nostalgia that Gibson layered into the original read one way in the late 80's now read with an additional patina of nostalgia that makes them even sensuous, luxurious, and grotesque yet still with a word; Greater.

“Things aren't different. Things are things.”

“When the past is always with you, it may as well be present; and if it is present, it will be future as well.”

“The Matrix has its roots in primitive arcade games,' said the voice-over, 'in early graphics programs and military experimentation with cranial jacks.' On the Sony, a two-dimensional space war faded behind a forest of mathematically generated ferns, demonstrating the spatial possibilities of logarithmic spirals; cold blue military footage burned through, lab animals wired into test systems, helmets feeding into fire control circuits of tanks and war planes. 'Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. ”