Latest Bruce Sterling Quotes from Interviews

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• The future is a process, not a destination.

  Bruce Sterling

  Process, Destination

• Open-source is a means of production.

  Bruce Sterling

  Mean, Source, Open Source

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

  Bruce Sterling

  Latin, Dark, Europe

• It's counterproductive to blither on about "the" future. It's always somebody's future, and we're not who we used to be.

  Bruce Sterling

  Used, Used To Be, Counterproductive

• Every passing year brings us more past futures.

  Bruce Sterling

  Past, Years, Passing

• Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of Postmodern skyscrapers.

  Bruce Sterling

  East Berlin, Europe, Cities

• Find a client and get a job.

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  Jobs, Clients

  "Bruce Sterling: Notes from the Near Future". Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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

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  Inquiry, Arrogant, Spirit

  "Bruce Sterling: Notes from the Near Future". Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 10, 2012.

• The future is a process, not a destination. Richard Stallman is a guy my age. I sympathize with Richard rather more than I sympathize with Richard's open-source ideas, but the guy's a mortal human being and so is his social movement. Open-source is a means of production.

  Bruce Sterling

  Mean, Ideas, Guy

• Every passing year brings us more past futures. Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin. It's counterproductive to blither on about "the" future. It's always somebody's future, and we're not who we used to be.

  Bruce Sterling

  Latin, Dark, Past

• Cloud computing seems to be following this evolutionary path: A - Internet backbone. B - Information Superhighway. C - The Net. D - The Web. E - The Cloud. F - "Ubiquity" G- ???

  Bruce Sterling

  Clouds, Ubiquity, Information

• "Story-tellers" should listen seriously to design and architecture without getting all literary and imperial about that. Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.

  Bruce Sterling

  Design, Inquiry, Stories