Music Quote by Bruce Sterling

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

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

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“America hadn't really been suited for its long and tiresome role as the Last Superpower, the World's Policeman. As a patriotic American, Oscar was quite content to watch other people's military coming home in boxes for a while. The American national character wasn't suited for global police duties. It never had been. Tidy and meticulous people such as the Swiss…

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“But the economy's out of control. Money just doesn't need human beings anymore. Most of us only get in the way.”

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Information wants you to give me a dollar.

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Information wants to be free. Believe it.

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

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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 I am today.

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

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“Forget trying to pass for normal. Follow your geekdom. Embrace nerditude. In the immortal words of Lafcadio Hearn, a geek of incredible obscurity whose work is still in print after a hundred years, “Woo the muse of the odd.” You may be a geek. You may have geek written all over you. You should aim to be one geek they'll…

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