Bruce Sterling Quotes

born 1954 United States

Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his seminal work on the Mirrorshades anthology.

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When the People march in one direction, it only hurts to ask awkward questions.

Islands in the Net (1988)

Agriculture is the oldest and most vicious of humanity’s bio-technologies.

Islands in the Net (1988)

It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud.

She’d read somewhere once that 90 percent of the world’s havoc was committed by men between fifteen and twenty-five.

Islands in the Net (1988)

Interstitialism is very postmodern, in that it calls old definitions into question without bothering to invent plausible new ones.

I’ll grant you good intentions, but intentions don’t count for much. Corruption—that’s what counts.

Islands in the Net (1988)

The world doesn’t give a shit how noble your motives are—it’ll roll right over you. That’s how it works.

Islands in the Net (1988)

Centralized bureaucracies always protect the status quo. They don’t innovate. And it’s innovation that’s the real threat.

Islands in the Net (1988)

Warm, kindly, humane Wikipedia didn't grow up in today's Internet. Now it's like a hothouse orchid the size of a barn.

Don't become a well-rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and dull. Become a thoroughly spiky person. Grow spikes from every angle. Stick in their throats like a pufferfish.

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?!?

Clearly, Mother de Gupta dearly loved motherhood – mostly, for the chance that it offered her to boss around small, helpless people.

The Peak of Eternal Light (2012)

The autumn sun shone brightly. It was still the same sun and the same clouds. The sun didn’t care about the landscape inside people’s heads.

Islands in the Net (1988)

Where there’s war, there’s whores.

Islands in the Net (1988)

You can get a hell of a lot done in a popular medium just by knocking it off with the bullshit.

Real life was where the baby was.

Islands in the Net (1988)

As tempers rose, a compromise was urged by certain moderates, whom everyone ignored.

The Peak of Eternal Light (2012)

The Net was a lot like television, another former wonder of the age. The Net was a vast glass mirror. It reflected what it was shown. Mostly human banality.

Islands in the Net (1988)

Laura listened to their crude P. R. with sour amusement. They wouldn’t crank out this level of rhetoric unless they were trying to hide a real weakness, she thought.

Islands in the Net (1988)

A great war requires some great military powers, ready and eager to risk all. The New World Disorder lacks the muscle for conventional warfare. The New World Order has plenty of muscle but a problem finding foes to war with.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bruce Sterling (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.