Cyberpunk (1990)
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https://archive.org/details/cyberpunk_201410


10:22

So, by definition, in a bureaucracy, any individual who thinks
for herself is considered a hooligan or a smart-ass or a know-it-all
or a troublemaker. The creative child is the troublemaker. So, by
definition, an innovative person -- particularly in technology,
with computers, anyone who get's in there, using a computer for
his or her own purpose, is by definition a hooligan, a punk.


43:07

Because our tools -- Oh my god! You know, it's not my arm, it's a
hammer. Does that mean I've lost power ... to the hammer? Or does
that mean I can build a cathedral? [...] The question isn't whether
or not the medium is intrinsically evil or scary; the question is
whether or not we have a culture and a society and a group of
artists who can rise to the occasion of using it in a way that
enhances us.


45:20

When I started writing the stuff, I'd never touched a computer.
And I think that it gave me a certain strange edge in terms of
imagination, in that I wasn't really hindered by what was possible.
But when I finally went out and bought my little Apple computer
and I got it home and set it off and turned it on, it made this
weird noise ... this kind of grinding sound. And I called the man
very angrily and I said: Look, when I try to do this, it does
``Wrrrr-wrrr''. And he said, Sir, that's the disk drive. And I
said: What's that? And he explained it to me, and as he explained
it to me, I sort of lost something, that I'd had. I somehow thought
that they would be silent, crystalline engines, that ... you know,
I never really thought, I hadn't really thought about how they
worked, and now I realized that there was this piece of clumsy
Victorian technology, spinning a little plastic record around. And
I said: Oh! And at that point, I sort of lost something.