Bruce Sterling Quotes

• If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We can play with Big Ideas because the garish motley of our pulp origins make us seem harmless.

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  Wise, Play, Ideas

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• The future is a process, not a destination.

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  Process, Destination

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• 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.

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  Dope, Government, Long

  "So, people, we have a fight on our hands" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. July 1, 1994.

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• The past is a kind of future that has already happened.

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  Past, Kind, Happened

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• The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable.

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  Ruins, Frontiers

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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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  Mean, Thinking, Media

  "Big Brother and the Next 50 years". Interview with Declan McCullagh, www.cnet.com. June 05, 2003.

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• Tomorrow composts today.

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  Today, Tomorrow, Compost

  "Shaping Things". Book by Bruce Sterling, 2005.

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• Anything that can be done to a rat can be done to a human being. And we can do most anything to rats. This is a hard thing to think about, but it's the truth. It won't go away because we cover our eyes. THAT is cyberpunk.

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  Eye, Thinking, Going Away

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• You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it's shining on the same physical landscape, all the atoms are in place.

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  Morning, Shining, Atoms

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• The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.

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  Accountability, Four, Honest

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• Puede que seas un friki. Puede que lo lleves escrito por todas partes. Debes aspirar a ser el friki que nunca olvidarán. No pretendas ser civilizado. No esperes que los heterosexuales te tengan como una especie de mascota. Al diablo con ellos, ellos te pusieron aquí. Date cuenta de lo que la sociedad ha hecho de ti y véngate. Vuélvete raro. Sé muy raro. Sé peligrosamente raro. Vuélvete sofisticadamente raro y no lo hagas a medias, pon toda tu fuerza en ello. Ten el valor artístico de darte cuenta de tu importancia en la cultura.

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  Horse, Revenge, People

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• When you can’t imagine how things are going to change, that doesn’t mean that nothing will change. It means that things will change in ways that are unimaginable.

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  Mean, Way, Imagine

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• Me han pedido que explique por qué no me preocupan mucho los temas de amenaza a la privacidad... Una razón es que estos escenarios parecen asumir que habrá grandes burocracias monolíticas... capaces de aprovechar los ordenadores para la vigilancia unidireccional de una población desprevenida. He llegado a pensar que la computación no funciona así. Tener miedo de las organizaciones monolíticas, especialmente cuando tienen ordenadores, es como tener miedo de gorilas muy grandes, especialmente cuando están ardiendo.

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  Fire, Organization, Worry

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• No te conviertas en una persona equilibrada. Las personas equilibradas son suaves y tranquilas. Conviértete en una persona completamente espinosa.

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  People, Belief, Smooth

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• El futuro no está escrito. El ciberespacio es el espejo de nuestra propia sociedad, refleja nuestros valores y nuestros defectos, a veces con exageraciones aterradoras. No importa quién seas hoy, si no apareces en ese espejo no vas a importar mucho. Nuestros hijos tienen que aparecer en el espejo.

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  Kids, Mirrors, Cyberspace

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• Worrying about a large institution, especially when it has computers, is like worrying about a large gorilla, especially when it's on fire.

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  Fire, Worry, Gorillas

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

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  Military, Entertainment, Entertainers

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

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• 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.

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  Real, People, Imagination

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• In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?

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  World, Littles, Dignity

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• 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.

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  East Berlin, Europe, Cities

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• I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. Thats how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.

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  Literature, Today, Students

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• La universidad, como institución, es anterior a la economía de la información en muchos siglos y no es una entidad cultural con ánimo de lucro cuya razón de ser (supuestamente) es descubrir la verdad, codificarla mediante técnicas de erudición y luego enseñarla. Las universidades están destinadas a transmitir la antorcha de la civilización, no sólo a descargar datos en los cráneos de los estudiantes.

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  Data, Civilization, Skulls

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• Information wants you to give me a dollar.

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  Giving, Dollars, Want

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• Everybody has a different Internet.

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  Different, Internet, Free Speech

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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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