All Bruce Sterling Quotes
- Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list… Cynical
- I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere. Better
- I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it. Basic
- I'm an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex. Complex
- Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music. Guy
- A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to… Cams
- I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have… Bruce
- If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with its hands in its pockets, wondering what's… Bin
- Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's… Call
- The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them. Accountability
- The future isn't just unwritten, it's unsearched. Funny
- In a start-up society, huge sums can fall on innocent parties, almost by accident . Accident
- One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing. Destabilizing
- Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just… Aircraft
- (He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits that would shelter them from their own freedom.… Absolute
- You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up… All
- The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them are great fun to write about if you' re… Best
- In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity? Absence
- A dagger is the noble weapon of Brutus. Everyone understands that tyrants fall to daggers. A bomb is a sordid modern device with many complex… Bomb
- If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter… Big
- 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 be… Afghan
- 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 will… Acts
- You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming… Always Going