Bruce Sterling Quotes

• 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.

  Bruce Sterling

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Corrupt, Distribution

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

  Bruce Sterling

  Topics in Ability

  Tags in Ignorance

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War, Peace

• We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that “9/11”? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we’d give that huge event a different name.

  Bruce Sterling

  Topics in Work

  Tags in War

• They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they’ll be called “war” too. And there will still be no conventional war.

  Bruce Sterling

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Unthinkable

• 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.

  Bruce Sterling

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Might

• 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.

  Bruce Sterling

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Topic

• 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.

  Bruce Sterling

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Evidence

• 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.

  Bruce Sterling

  Topics in Technology

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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