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 hope that straight people will keep you on as some sort of pet. To hell with them, they put you here. You should realize what society has made of you and take full revenge. Get weird. Get way weird. Get dangerously weird. Get sophisticatedly thoroughly weird and don’t do it half way, put every ounce of your horse power into it. Have the artistic courage to realize your significance in culture.
It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud. - Bruce Sterling
It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud.
- Bruce Sterling
The future is a process, not a destination. - Bruce Sterling
The future is a process, not a destination.
Tomorrow composts today. - Bruce Sterling
Tomorrow composts today.
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
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…
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
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 …
I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere. - Bruce Sterling
I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.
The past is a kind of future that has already happened. - Bruce Sterling
The past is a kind of future that has already happened.
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
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…
The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable. - Bruce Sterling
The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable.
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