Bruce Sterling
Bruce Sterling
Michael Bruce Sterlingis an American science fiction author known for his novels and work on the Mirrorshades anthology. This work helped to define the cyberpunk genre...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth14 April 1954
CountryUnited States of America
Bruce Sterling quotes about
mirrors cyberspace
Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society.
morning philosophical loss
As a philosophical problem, it comes down to a better way to engage with the passage of time; and I think we're getting close to one, because the imaginative loss of the future is becoming acute.The most effective political actors on the planet now are people who want to blow themselves up.These are people who really don't want to get out of the bed in the morning and face another unpredictable day.
The future is a process, not a destination.
today tomorrow compost
Tomorrow composts today.
victory being-human humans
There's no victory-condition for being human.
dubai years two
It's going to be really interesting to see what the heroin market does in the next two years or so. One thing you can be pretty sure of. The Afghan peasants who grow poppies won't get rich. The money will end up in places like Dubai.
It's counterproductive to blither on about "the" future. It's always somebody's future, and we're not who we used to be.
organization fire worry
I've been asked to explain why I don't worry much about the topics of privacy threat...One reason is that these scenarios seem to assume that there will be large, monolithic bureaucracies...that are capable of harnessing computers for one-way surveillance of an unsuspecting populace. I've come to feel that computation just doesn't work that way. Being afraid of monolithic organizations especially when they have computers, is like being afraid of really big gorillas especially when they are on fire.
believe information want
Information wants to be free. Believe it.
dope government worry
But even the Four Horsemen of Kidporn, Dope Dealers, Mafia and Terrorists don't worry me as much as totalitarian governments. It's been a long century, and we've had enough of them.
arrogant spirit geek
Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.
fire worry gorillas
Worrying about a large institution, especially when it has computers, is like worrying about a large gorilla, especially when it's on fire.
men shelter limits
(He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits that would shelter them from their own freedom. There were no shelters. There were no final purposes. Futility, and freedom, were Absolute
real imagination people
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.