Bruce Sterling Quotes - Page 2

• Maybe we're about to radically change the operating system of the human condition. If so, then this would be a really good time to make backups of our civilization.

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  Civilization, Would Be, Good Times

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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  Tecnología, Pensamiento, Años

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Movie, Shoes, Bollywood

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• 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.

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  Peace, War, Literature

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• In a start-up society, huge sums can fall on innocent parties, almost by accident .

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  Party, Fall, Innocent

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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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• 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.

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  Military, Hands, Pockets

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

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• I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.

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  Writing, Data, Names

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

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• 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.

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  Literature, Trends, Small Parts

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

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• Creo que nuestros abuelos eran Victor Frankenstein. Básicamente soy el tipo de criatura profundamente antinatural que la Sra. Shelley temía instintivamente. No sólo me como sus vacas sagradas, sino que me las como con ketchup. Aunque entiendo su punto de vista, creo que la monstruosidad transgresora y la manipulación de la fuerza vital son mucho más divertidas de lo que ella sospechaba.

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  Fun, Thinking, Grandparent

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• Okay, are you really 'experimenting'? How do you know if you're really experimenting? You're working on it methodically and you're publishing the results! It's not an experiment if you don't publish the results in some verifiable and falsifiable form, okay?

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  Form, Results, Okay

  "Transcript of reboot 11 speech by Bruce Sterling, 25-6-2009". www.wired.com. February 25, 2011.

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• Information wants to be free. Believe it.

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  Believe, Want, Information

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