1. Bruce Sterling
Michael Bruce Sterling is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his seminal work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which helped define the cyberpunk genre.Sterling is, along with William Gibson, Rudy Rucker, John Shirley, more..

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Bruce Sterling: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. #Politicians and Politics

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Bruce Sterling:Years ago, if your husband died in a house fire, you could get a covered wagon and go to Oregon. Now, as soon as you arrive in Oregon, someone could google you. "Oh, well, widow Simpson. Really sorry to hear about the house fire." #America

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Bruce Sterling:We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that "9/11"? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name. #World Affairs

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Bruce Sterling:If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military. #Politicians and Politics

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Bruce Sterling: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. #Education

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Bruce Sterling:Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music. #Music

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Bruce Sterling: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. #Adversity

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Bruce Sterling:What's also very interesting about Dubai, is that it has recently been promoted as the "portal" of the United Arab Emirates. #Mistakes

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Bruce Sterling:If the National Guard never goes home because the weather never gets any better, that's a scenario we Viridians like to call "Khaki Green." #Government

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Bruce Sterling: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. #Peace

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Bruce Sterling:It's going to be really interesting to see what the heroin market does in the next two years or so. One thing you can be pretty sure of. The Afghan peasants who grow poppies won't get rich. The money will end up in places like Dubai. #Money

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Bruce Sterling:I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it. #Fiction

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Bruce Sterling:I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the sun came out of the clouds for me. I love Italy. #Happiness

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Bruce Sterling:There are no fronts, the commanding headquarters of generals can be smashed instantly and are number-one targets, supply lines can be interdicted at will, trans-border invasions by organized national armies are heavily disapproved by large coalitions of nations. #Leaders and Leadership

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Bruce Sterling:If disasters get bad enough, they certainly become national-security threats and the National Guard is called in. #World Affairs

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Bruce Sterling:One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing. #Books - Reading

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Bruce Sterling:The common population would stand aghast as these people did one another in. It would not stop once the surveillance mechanism was there. It would eat generation after generation of KGB members until it decapitated and lobotomized the entire population. #Parents and Parenting

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Bruce Sterling:Hack the hardware, not the Constitution. #Creativity

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Bruce Sterling:I noticed that people are doing a lot of "googling" before a first date nowadays - this represents the real trend. Poindexter's doing this and DARPA allowed him to do it for the propaganda that someone's serious about cyberwar someplace. #Propaganda

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