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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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Bruce Sterling
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 14
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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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Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.
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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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Find a client and get a job.
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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.
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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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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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Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society.
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It's counterproductive to blither on about the future. It's always somebody's future, and we're not who we used to be.
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Information wants you to give me a dollar.
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The past is a kind of future that has already happened.
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