Bruce Sterling

When you can’t imagine how things are going to change, that doesn’t mean that nothing will change. It means that things will…

— Bruce Sterling

Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society.

— Bruce Sterling

My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great…

— Bruce Sterling

The future isn't just unwritten, it's unsearched.

— Bruce Sterling

“For a moment, sincere human fury had burned through the training, touched a hot core of genuine rage. He felt shaken, but…

— Bruce Sterling

Open-source is a means of production.

— Bruce Sterling

“You see, I'm from your government, and I'm here to help you.”

— Bruce Sterling

Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other…

— Bruce Sterling

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

It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud.

— Bruce Sterling

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

— 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

Everybody wants to disown neocon strategy, including the neocons, because that strategy never worked. Still, it was, in point of fact, a…

— Bruce Sterling

I know that the human condition will be radically changed through technical means. Much of this change will be painful, monstrous and…

— Bruce Sterling

We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons.…

— Bruce Sterling

The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.

— Bruce Sterling

Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin.

— 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

“«She had Google, and she had Wikipedia. She could look up anything obscure, any words or phrases that she didn’t understand. A…

— Bruce Sterling

David Brin is a technological determinist. He thinks that we understand the trend and we need to hop on it. I don't…

— Bruce Sterling

“«Gavin did not enjoy his hard work. The optimistic startup guys sending in these crazy proposals were guys who enjoyed their work.…

— Bruce Sterling

Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.

— 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

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

— Bruce Sterling

“I am not ranting. I possess a perspective here that you people, who are locked in the ivory basements of your own…

— Bruce Sterling