Bruce Sterling Quotes
Top 55 wise famous quotes and sayings by Bruce Sterling
Bruce Sterling Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Posthumanism offers fluidity and freedom, and a metaphysic daring enough to think a whole world into life.
One of the great beauties of politics as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism.
War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.
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.
The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.
They can't strike against smugglers! We're not the government. We are a criminal private-enterprise operation!
Competence doesn't seem like a big deal until you are forced to realize that your own government has none.
Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person.
I am not ranting. I possess a perspective here that you people, who are locked in the ivory basements of your own sub-cultures, simply do not possess.
My dream appliance circa 2050 has one big dial on it, and when I twist it to the right, my IQ goes up to 450.
I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.
It was a frightening thing, to see two mentally incompetent sidewalk buskers, with battered folk musicians, who might any moment burst into song.
Worrying about a large institution, especially when it has computers, is like worrying about a large gorilla, especially when it's on fire.
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 life.
To run the world, you had to find it in yourself to grit your teeth and just fake it. Just stare them down, never back off.
Do you remember, Abelard ... Once I told you that ecstasy was better than being God."
"I remember."
"I was wrong, darling. Being God is better.
"I remember."
"I was wrong, darling. Being God is better.
Your audience are whores, oxygen farmers, two dozen pirate bands, and fifty runaway mathematicians. They would all love to see dancing and fighting.
Stripping's bad form, these days," he said. "It's lost all meaning. People do it just to punctuate a conversation.
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 illusions.
We need common sense and political stability and sensible, workable policies. That's what government is for.
The Internet of Things is not a capitalist marketplace. It's a new platform for radically broadening digital activity.
We'll exchange rings, we'll throw rice. We'll put down roots.'
We don't have roots. We're network people. We have aerials.
We don't have roots. We're network people. We have aerials.
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 booked elsewhere.
A massive rate of change is normalcy for America. What we need is planned change - Progress. We need Progress!
Unfortunately, computers are?stupid.Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate.
Since the Internet of Things is built on silicon, on the tremendous instability of modern electronics, it's built on literal sand.
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?
But the economy's out of control. Money just doesn't need human beings anymore. Most of us only get in the way.
My IQ? No. I can't read," she said proudly. "But I'm Rep One, the majority whip in the House. And I'm married to Senator One.
I knew suddenly that I could not endure another week in Venice, not another day of their gentle melancholy, not another hour of fashionable despair.