Every passing year brings us more past futures. Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to….

You may be a geek. You may have geek written all over you. You should aim to be the geek they will never forget. Don’t aim to be civilized. Don’t hop….

The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier..

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

The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable..

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

The past is a kind of future that has already happened..

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

Tomorrow composts today..

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 ….

But even the Four Horsemen of Kidporn, Dope Dealers, Mafia and Terrorists don't worry me as much as totalitarian governments. It's been a long centur….

You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up….

The future is a process, not a destination..

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..

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….

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 i….

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing..

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 an….

It's counterproductive to blither on about "the" future. It's always somebody's future, and we're not who we used to be..

A set of Bollywood actresses are coming through Dallas soon in a live tour; I'd pay a lot to see them, but alas, I'm fully booked elsewhere..

People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they cons….