Quotes by Bruce Sterling

Bruce Sterling

(He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits that would shelter them from their own freedom. There were no shelters. There were no final purposes. Futility, and freedom, were Absolute

Finals

Men

Purpose

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

Fall

Noble

Tyrants

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.

Literature

Small Parts

Trends

Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of Postmodern skyscrapers.

Cities

East Berlin

Europe

As a philosophical problem, it comes down to a better way to engage with the passage of time; and I think we’re getting close to one, because the imaginative loss of the future is becoming acute.The most effective political actors on the planet now are people who want to blow themselves up.These are people who really don’t want to get out of the bed in the morning and face another unpredictable day.

Loss

Morning

Philosophical

But from another, deeper perspective: we shouldn’t involve outselves in lines of development where the ultimate victory condition is emulating dead people. There’s no appeal in that. It’s bad for us. That kind of inherent mournfulness is just not a good way to be human.

People

Perspective

Victory

Cloud computing seems to be following this evolutionary path: A – Internet backbone. B – Information Superhighway. C – The Net. D – The Web. E – The Cloud. F – “Ubiquity” G- ???

Clouds

Information

Ubiquity

Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society.

Cyberspace

Mirrors

Don’t become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person.

Belief

People

Smooth

Every passing year brings us more past futures.

Passing

Past

Years

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21st Century

Ambition

Arrogant

Attitude

Being Human

Belief

Believe

Berlin

Bigger Than Life

Century

Cities

Civilization

Class

Clouds

Computer

Counterproductive

Cutting

Cyberspace

D Day

Dark

Data

Different

Dignity

Dream

Dubai

East Berlin

Entertainers

Entertainment

Environmental

Europe

Fall

Finals

Fire

Free Speech

Fun

Gorillas

Grandparent

Guy

Happened

Hats

Home

Humans

Ideas

Ignorance

Imagination

Imagine

Information

Inquiry

Internet

Jobs

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Quotes by Bruce Sterling

Bruce Sterling

(He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits that would shelter them from their own freedom. There were no shelters. There were no final purposes. Futility, and freedom, were Absolute

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

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.

Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of Postmodern skyscrapers.

But from another, deeper perspective: we shouldn’t involve outselves in lines of development where the ultimate victory condition is emulating dead people. There’s no appeal in that. It’s bad for us. That kind of inherent mournfulness is just not a good way to be human.

Cloud computing seems to be following this evolutionary path: A – Internet backbone. B – Information Superhighway. C – The Net. D – The Web. E – The Cloud. F – “Ubiquity” G- ???

Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society.

Don’t become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person.

Every passing year brings us more past futures.

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