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Neuromancer

Neuromancer
Coming up with a word like neuromancer is something that would earn you a really fine vacation if you worked in an ad agency. It was a kind of booby-trapped portmanteau that contained considerable potential for cognitive dissonance, that pleasurable buzz of feeling slightly unsettled.
William Gibson on his invention of the word “neuromancer” in The Paris Review, William Gibson, The Art of Fiction No. 211

I love this quote so much I have my own small writing project dedicated to it.