Bruce Sterling

They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called 'war' too.…

— Bruce Sterling

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

— Bruce Sterling

“America hadn't really been suited for its long and tiresome role as the Last Superpower, the World's Policeman. As a patriotic American,…

— Bruce Sterling

“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

It's going to be really interesting to see what the heroin market does in the next two years or so. One thing…

— Bruce Sterling

Information wants you to give me a dollar.

— Bruce Sterling

Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty…

— Bruce Sterling

Information wants to be free. Believe it.

— Bruce Sterling

The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.

— Bruce Sterling

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…

— Bruce Sterling

“If America suffers from drugs, perhaps you should ask what America is lacking, [“What an asshole,”] Eric King commented suddenly. They ignored…

— Bruce Sterling

“Forget trying to pass for normal. Follow your geekdom. Embrace nerditude. In the immortal words of Lafcadio Hearn, a geek of incredible…

— Bruce Sterling

I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.

— Bruce Sterling

Find a client and get a job.

— 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

Every passing year brings us more past futures.

— Bruce Sterling

“Stripping's bad form, these days," he said. "It's lost all meaning. People do it just to punctuate a conversation.”

— Bruce Sterling

A dagger is the noble weapon of Brutus. Everyone understands that tyrants fall to daggers. A bomb is a sordid modern device…

— Bruce Sterling

Unfortunately, computers are?stupid.Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate.

— 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

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

— Bruce Sterling

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

— 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

“Because you’re a straight, Laura.” “Stop calling me that!” Laura said. “What makes you so different?” “Look at you,” Carlotta said. “You’re…

— Bruce Sterling

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