The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable. — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
It's counterproductive to blither on about "the" future. It's always somebody's future, and we're not who we used to be. — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
Maybe we're about to radically change the operating system of the human condition. If so, then this would be a really good… — 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
The future is a process, not a destination. Richard Stallman is a guy my age. I sympathize with Richard rather more than… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“For a moment, sincere human fury had burned through the training, touched a hot core of genuine rage. He felt shaken, but… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
The future is unwritten. Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society, reflects our values and our faults, sometimes in terrifying… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
Every passing year brings us more past futures. Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“«Once, I went to this little meeting of Microsoft kids. Like, this high-school trip thing, but it was very exclusive. We met… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them are great fun to write about… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
As a philosophical problem, it comes down to a better way to engage with the passage of time; and I think we're… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“The gifts we received from the dead: those were the world's only genuine gifts. All other things in the world were commodities.… — 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
