Bruce Sterling Quotes About Literature

• Mi idea de una historia de parque de atracciones es hacer que los aventureros recorran zonas de catástrofe medioambiental. Al fin y al cabo, si toda la Gran Barrera de Coral muere, lo que parece una posibilidad extremadamente viva, ¿qué vas a hacer con toda esa piedra caliza podrida?

  Bruce Sterling

  Ideas, Environmental, Parks

• I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the sun came out of the clouds for me. I love Italy.

  Bruce Sterling

  Clouds, September 11, Age

• 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.

  Bruce Sterling

  Dubai, Years, Two

• I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here.

  Bruce Sterling

  Distance, Writing, Intellectual

• El sistema de distribución de Bollywood es tan corrupto que les cuesta ganar dinero con las películas. Así que venden zapatos que pisó una actriz. Si subieran un poco los amplificadores, tal vez podrían vender a las actrices.

  Bruce Sterling

  Movie, Shoes, Bollywood

• 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

  Peace, War, Literature

• 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

  D Day, Literature, Berlin

• 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.

  Bruce Sterling

  Literature, Today, Students

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

  Bruce Sterling

  People, Guy, Political

• 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

  Suicide, Class, People

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

• A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend.

  Bruce Sterling

  Literature, Trends, Small Parts

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

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

  Bruce Sterling

  Ignorance, Data, Literature

• If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with its hands in its pockets, wondering what's supposed to come next.

  Bruce Sterling

  Military, Hands, Pockets

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

• Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.

  Bruce Sterling

  Home, Ignorance, Literature

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

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