171 Quotes by Bruce Sterling

"The future isn't just unwritten, it's unsearched."

"My dream appliance circa 2050 has one big dial on it, and when I twist it to the right, my IQ goes up to 450."

"Las Vegas is a major family destination. Nevada casinos have become American family values now. It's considered just fine to go into one of these windowless scary gambling-malls, drink yourself silly, lose your ass at roulette, and then go ogle showgirls with breast implants. Republicans do this now. Working-class folks do it in polyester stretch pants. It's normal."

"In a start-up society, huge sums can fall on innocent parties, almost by accident ."

"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 - ???..."

"Unfortunately, computers are?stupid.Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate."

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

"The future is unwritten. Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society, reflects our values and our faults, sometimes in terrifying exaggerations. It doesn't matter who you are today, if you don't show up in that mirror you are just not going to matter very much. Our kids have to show up in the mirror."

""Story-tellers" should listen seriously to design and architecture without getting all literary and imperial about that. Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry."

"Maybe we're about to radically change the operating system of the human condition. If so, then this would be a really good time to make backups of our civilization."