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

- Bruce Sterling

Tomorrow composts today.

- Bruce Sterling

The future is a process, not a destination.

- Bruce Sterling

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

- Bruce Sterling

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

- Bruce Sterling

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…

- Bruce Sterling

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 …

- Bruce Sterling

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…

- Bruce Sterling

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

- Bruce Sterling