Bruce Sterling

Every passing year brings us more past futures.

— Bruce Sterling

Information wants you to give me a dollar.

— Bruce Sterling

Find a client and get a job.

— Bruce Sterling

Open-source is a means of production.

— Bruce Sterling

The future is a process, not a destination.

— Bruce Sterling

Information wants to be free. Believe it.

— Bruce Sterling

“They never forget what they can’t have”

— Bruce Sterling

Everybody has a different Internet.

— Bruce Sterling

Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society.

— Bruce Sterling

I'm an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex.

— Bruce Sterling

“You give a guy a license to steal, you've got to expect him to use it.”

— Bruce Sterling

The past is a kind of future that has already happened.

— Bruce Sterling

“Death defeats us in the end. But our children are our revenge against it.”

— Bruce Sterling

“Hey, check this cheap-shot fascist shit,” David muttered, just for the record.”

— Bruce Sterling

Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.

— Bruce Sterling

“Take away America's money, and you've got a country of tribes.”

— Bruce Sterling

“...We'll exchange rings, we'll throw rice. We'll put down roots.' We don't have roots. We're network people. We have aerials.”

— Bruce Sterling

Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is…

— Bruce Sterling

“«“Looks like your sci-fi prediction came true right away, Xavier.” “That can be gratifying,” mused the novelist. “But not all the time.”»”

— Bruce Sterling

A set of Bollywood actresses are coming through Dallas soon in a live tour; I'd pay a lot to see them, but…

— Bruce Sterling

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

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.…

— Bruce Sterling

“Do you remember, Abelard... Once I told you that ecstasy was better than being God." "I remember." "I was wrong, darling. Being…

— Bruce Sterling

My dream appliance circa 2050 has one big dial on it, and when I twist it to the right, my IQ goes…

— Bruce Sterling

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away.…

— Bruce Sterling

Las Vegas is a major family destination. Nevada casinos have become American family values now. It's considered just fine to go into…

— Bruce Sterling

“BRUCE STERLING Homo sapiens declared extinct , Nature, November 11, 1999: Since I've been asked to offer an epitaph," the highly distributed…

— Bruce Sterling

If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can…

— Bruce Sterling

“Now, for the first time, the President began to look genuinely powerful, even dangerous. This was a classic political coalition: it had…

— Bruce Sterling

People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and…

— Bruce Sterling

I think our grandparents were Victor Frankenstein. I basically am the kind of deeply unnatural creature that Mrs Shelley instinctively dreaded. I…

— Bruce Sterling

Anything that can be done to a rat can be done to a human being. And we can do most anything to…

— Bruce Sterling

“Let's throw his ass out the airlock," suggested the Speaker of the House. "We can't do that," said the Chief Justice of…

— Bruce Sterling

I've been asked to explain why I don't worry much about the topics of privacy threat...One reason is that these scenarios seem…

— Bruce Sterling

“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

“«All the Amazon guys around Seattle were also aware of the trend. They all knew that, someday, European haute couture would sell…

— Bruce Sterling

You may be a geek. You may have geek written all over you. You should aim to be the geek they will…

— Bruce Sterling

“«Eliza opened her furry black satchel. She pulled out a portable CD player. “Gav, look here. Once, I loved this machine. Because…

— Bruce Sterling

“This is not to say that science itself is politics. Scientific knowledge is profoundly different from political ideology. Science is an intellectual…

— Bruce Sterling

“I'm Level Eighty on Warcraft." The clerk was stunned. "You're Level Eighty?! Are you Horde, or Alliance?" "What, are you kidding me?…

— Bruce Sterling