Bruce Sterling Quotations

Anything that can be done to a rat can be done to a human being. And we can do most anything to rats. This is a hard thing to think about, but it's the truth. It won't go away because we cover our eyes. THAT is cyberpunk.

I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.

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

I'm an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex.

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

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.

I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.

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.

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.

The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.