Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music. — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“They can't strike against smugglers! We're not the government. We are a criminal private-enterprise operation!” — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“One of the great beauties of politics as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism.” — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
But even the Four Horsemen of Kidporn, Dope Dealers, Mafia and Terrorists don't worry me as much as totalitarian governments. It's been… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them. — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“Now, for the first time, the President began to look genuinely powerful, even dangerous. This was a classic political coalition: it had… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“This is not to say that science itself is politics. Scientific knowledge is profoundly different from political ideology. Science is an intellectual… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called 'war' too. And there… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share
“America hadn't really been suited for its long and tiresome role as the Last Superpower, the World's Policeman. As a patriotic American, Oscar was… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share
“But the economy's out of control. Money just doesn't need human beings anymore. Most of us only get in the way.” — Bruce Sterling Copy Share
It's going to be really interesting to see what the heroin market does in the next two years or so. One thing you can… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share
Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share
The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them. — Bruce Sterling Copy Share
I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. That's how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share
“If America suffers from drugs, perhaps you should ask what America is lacking, [“What an asshole,”] Eric King commented suddenly. They ignored him.” — Bruce Sterling Copy Share
“Forget trying to pass for normal. Follow your geekdom. Embrace nerditude. In the immortal words of Lafcadio Hearn, a geek of incredible obscurity whose… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share
I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it. — Bruce Sterling Copy Share
I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share
