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

Bruce Sterling

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Bruce Sterling
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 14
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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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The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.
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Find a client and get a job.
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Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!?
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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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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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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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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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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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Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.
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Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin.
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The future isn't just unwritten, it's unsearched.
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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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One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.
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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 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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The future is unwritten. Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society, reflects our values and our faults, sometimes in terrifying exaggerations. It doesn't matter who you are today, if you don't show up in that mirror you are just not going to matter very much. Our kids have to show up in the mirror.
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