Bruce Sterling Quotes

• Cyberspace is the fun house mirror of our own society.

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

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

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• I don’t think there’s much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.

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• I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.

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• A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend.

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• Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer going to work as it is no longer technically possible.

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• I haven’t had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the sun came out of the clouds for me. I love Italy.

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• I’m an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex.

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• If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with its hands in its pockets, wondering what’s supposed to come next.

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• If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.

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• My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?

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• Political people don’t solve stuff – not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.

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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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• 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. I actually live around here.

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

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• People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They’re trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they consider that a legitimate thing to do, but they’re having mixed success at the job.

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• One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.

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• Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone’s illiterate, but you wouldn’t really call that privacy. That’s ignorance.

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• Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that’s going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don’t have many illusions about this, but I’m not cynical about it.

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Bruce Sterling (29)

Birth:	14th April, 1954
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Writer

About

Bruce Sterling was born in Brownsville, Texas. He is an American science fiction writer who is best known for his novels and his work on the Mirrorshades anthology. This work helped to define the cyberpunk genre. He won Hugo Awards for his novelettes Bicycle Repairman and Taklamakan. His first novel, Involution Ocean, published in 1977, features the world Nullaqua where all the atmosphere is contained in a single, miles-deep crater. From April 2009 through May 2009, he was an editor at Cool Tools. His most recent novel is Love Is Strange, a Paranormal Romance.

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