Bruce Sterling Quotes - Page 2

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• We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys.

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  Suicide, Class, People

  "Inside the Military-Entertainment Complex". Interview with Krystian Woznicki, www.heise.de. June 16, 2002.

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• 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.

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  Dream, Technology, Twists

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

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  Clouds, Technological Development, Silver

  1993 Opening statement to the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance,Washington DC, 29 Apr.

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• I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.

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  Technology, Thinking, Years

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• Every passing year brings us more past futures.

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  Past, Years, Passing

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Needs, Trends

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

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  People, Guy, Political

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• Las Vegas is a major family destination. Nevada casinos have become American family values now. It's considered just fine to go into one of these windowless scary gambling-malls, drink yourself silly, lose your ass at roulette, and then go ogle showgirls with breast implants. Republicans do this now. Working-class folks do it in polyester stretch pants. It's normal.

  Bruce Sterling

  Silly, Vegas, Gambling

  "Greetings from Burning Man!". www.wired.com. November 01, 1996.

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• You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.

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  Cutting, Data, Starting Over

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• Competence doesn't seem like a big deal until you are forced to realize that your own government has none.

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  Government, Realizing, Bigs

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• Your attitude determines your altitude. Your ambitions are bigger than life Of course. They must be. They encompass it.

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  Attitude, Ambition, Bigger Than Life

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• 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- ???

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  Clouds, Ubiquity, Information

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• The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

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  Ignorance, Data, Literature

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• Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large buildings and aircraft, it's not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin.

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  D Day, Literature, Berlin

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• A dagger is the noble weapon of Brutus. Everyone understands that tyrants fall to daggers. A bomb is a sordid modern device with many complex working parts. Only engineers understand bombs

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  Fall, Tyrants, Noble

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• Everybody wants to disown neocon strategy, including the neocons, because that strategy never worked. Still, it was, in point of fact, a strategy. Nobody else has one.

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  Want, Facts, Strategy

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• I know that the human condition will be radically changed through technical means. Much of this change will be painful, monstrous and horrible. Most mutations are disgusting failures, most experiments are failures. I accept this and I don't find it frightening.

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  Mean, Mutation, Painful

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• The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.

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  Movie, Shoes, Bollywood

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• Information wants to be free. Believe it.

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  Believe, Want, Information

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• "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.

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  Design, Inquiry, Stories

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

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  Latin, Dark, Europe

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• 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.

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• But from another, deeper perspective: we shouldn't involve outselves in lines of development where the ultimate victory condition is emulating dead people. There's no appeal in that. It's bad for us. That kind of inherent mournfulness is just not a good way to be human.

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  People, Perspective, Victory

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• 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.

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• 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.

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  Latin, Dark, Past

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