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I'm an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex.
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Posthumanism offers fluidity and freedom, and a metaphysic daring enough to think a whole world into life.
— Bruce Sterling
One of the great beauties of politics as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism.
— Bruce Sterling
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.
— 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 I am today.
— Bruce Sterling
Everybody has a different Internet.
— Bruce Sterling
Information wants to be free. Believe it.
— Bruce Sterling
The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.
— Bruce Sterling
They can't strike against smugglers! We're not the government. We are a criminal private-enterprise operation!
— Bruce Sterling
Getting what you want is a serious matter. It is far more transformative than frustration.
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The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century's frontier.
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In a start-up society, huge sums can fall on innocent parties, almost by accident .
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The future isn't just unwritten, it's unsearched.
— Bruce Sterling
Competence doesn't seem like a big deal until you are forced to realize that your own government has none.
— Bruce Sterling
Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person.
— Bruce Sterling
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.
— Bruce Sterling
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.
— Bruce Sterling
The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable.
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You see, I'm from your government, and I'm here to help you.
— Bruce Sterling
I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.
— Bruce Sterling
It was a frightening thing, to see two mentally incompetent sidewalk buskers, with battered folk musicians, who might any moment burst into song.
— Bruce Sterling
Information wants you to give me a dollar.
— Bruce Sterling
Worrying about a large institution, especially when it has computers, is like worrying about a large gorilla, especially when it's on fire.
— 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 people call real life.
— Bruce Sterling
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.
— Bruce Sterling
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. — Bruce Sterling
Your audience are whores, oxygen farmers, two dozen pirate bands, and fifty runaway mathematicians. They would all love to see dancing and fighting.
— Bruce Sterling
There's no victory-condition for being human.
— 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
It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud.
— 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 have any such illusions.
— Bruce Sterling
We need common sense and political stability and sensible, workable policies. That's what government is for.
— Bruce Sterling
One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.
— Bruce Sterling
The Internet of Things is not a capitalist marketplace. It's a new platform for radically broadening digital activity.
— Bruce Sterling
Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society.
— Bruce Sterling
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. — Bruce Sterling
Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.
— Bruce Sterling
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.
— Bruce Sterling
A massive rate of change is normalcy for America. What we need is planned change - Progress. We need Progress!
— Bruce Sterling
He spread his arms in benediction, like that Jesus statue in Brazil before the Maoists blew it up.
— Bruce Sterling
The digital revolution reduces everybody to the state of musicians.
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I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.
— Bruce Sterling
Unfortunately, computers are?stupid.Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate.
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Since the Internet of Things is built on silicon, on the tremendous instability of modern electronics, it's built on literal sand.
— Bruce Sterling
Mankind had always been surrounded by the miraculous. Nothing much had ever come of it.
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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?
— 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.
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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.
— Bruce Sterling
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.
— Bruce Sterling
Google created Google+ as its effort to steal Facebook's oxygen, but it turns out that social networks aren't commodities.
— Bruce Sterling
The past is a kind of future that has already happened.
— Bruce Sterling