Bruce Sterling Quotes

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• Your attitude determines your altitude. Your ambitions are bigger than life Of course. They must be. They encompass it.
• I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I…
• Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real…
• The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.
• I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. Thats how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.
• Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building,…
• David Brin is a technological determinist. He thinks that we understand the trend and we need to hop on it. I don't have any such…
• A set of Bollywood actresses are coming through Dallas soon in a live tour; I'd pay a lot to see them, but alas, I'm fully…
• You may be a geek. You may have geek written all over you. You should aim to be the geek they will never forget. Don’t…
• We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide…
• Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer going…
• Anything that can be done to a rat can be done to a human being. And we can do most anything to rats. This is…
• When you can’t imagine how things are going to change, that doesn’t mean that nothing will change. It means that things will change in ways…
• The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.
• Las Vegas is a major family destination. Nevada casinos have become American family values now. It's considered just fine to go into one of these…
• Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person.
• I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the sun came out…
• My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets…
• We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that…
• 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 live…

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