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Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.

Bruce Sterling

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Bruce Sterling
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 14
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Tomorrow composts today.
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One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.
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The past is a kind of future that has already happened.
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The future is a process, not a destination. Richard Stallman is a guy my age. I sympathize with Richard rather more than I sympathize with Richard's open-source ideas, but the guy's a mortal human being and so is his social movement. Open-source is a means of production.
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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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It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud.
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Story-tellers should listen seriously to design and architecture without getting all literary and imperial about that. Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.
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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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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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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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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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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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Your attitude determines your altitude. Your ambitions are bigger than life Of course. They must be. They encompass it.
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Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.
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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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A set of Bollywood actresses are coming through Dallas soon in a live tour I'd pay a lot to see them, but alas, I'm fully booked elsewhere.
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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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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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