# Burning Chrome  ## Metadata - Author: [[William Gibson]] - Full Title: Burning Chrome - Category: #books ## Highlights - But history, I’ve since come to believe, is the ultimate in speculative narrative, subject to ongoing and inevitable revision. ([Location 84](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00ICMWZH4&location=84)) - If they think you’re crude, go technical; if they think you’re technical, go crude. I’m a very technical boy. So I decided to get as crude as possible. ([Location 134](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00ICMWZH4&location=134)) - I checked myself out in the chrome siding of a coffee kiosk, your basic sharp-faced Caucasoid with a ruff of stiff, dark hair. ([Location 139](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00ICMWZH4&location=139)) - The concrete walls were overlaid with graffiti, years of them twisting into a single metascrawl of rage and frustration. ([Location 257](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00ICMWZH4&location=257)) # Burning Chrome  ## Metadata - Author: [[William Gibson]] - Full Title: Burning Chrome - Category: #books ## Highlights - But history, I’ve since come to believe, is the ultimate in speculative narrative, subject to ongoing and inevitable revision. ([Location 84](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00ICMWZH4&location=84)) - If they think you’re crude, go technical; if they think you’re technical, go crude. I’m a very technical boy. So I decided to get as crude as possible. ([Location 134](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00ICMWZH4&location=134)) - I checked myself out in the chrome siding of a coffee kiosk, your basic sharp-faced Caucasoid with a ruff of stiff, dark hair. ([Location 139](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00ICMWZH4&location=139)) - The concrete walls were overlaid with graffiti, years of them twisting into a single metascrawl of rage and frustration. ([Location 257](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00ICMWZH4&location=257))