Quotes from Bruce Sterling

A massive rate of change is normalcy for America. What we need is planned change—Progress. We need Progress!

Gene replacement therapy--they tell me it really hurts. It always hurts... It all hurts. Everything hurts. For as long as you can still feel it.

One of the great beauties of politicians as an art form was its lack of restriction to merely standard forms of realism.

Hey, check this cheap-shot fascist shit," David muttered, just for the record.

If America suffers from drugs, perhaps you should ask what America is lacking, ["What an asshole,"] Eric King commented suddenly. They ignored him.

I can't ask you to change," her husband said. "People only change if you give them time.

Wellspring looked grave. "You realize that an entire future destiny might accrete around this momentary utterance? It's from just such nuclei of free will that the future grows, in smooth determinism.

We," he intoned, "are the opportunity that recognizes itself.

Recently SCHISMATRIX became my first novel to come out in Finland. Perhaps there's a quality in a good translation that can't be captured with the original.

The thrill of the uncanny lies in the piquancy of oxymoron.

The Net was a lot like television, another former wonder of the age. The Net was a vast glass mirror. It reflected what it was shown. Mostly human banality. ?

I knew suddenly that I could not endure another week in Venice, not another day of their gentle melancholy, not another hour of fashionable despair.

The terms of the Vienna Convention require me to tell you of your legal position. First, your speech is being recorded and you are being filmed. Your statements will be kept on file by various agencies of Vienna Convention signatory governments. I am not required to specify these agencies or the number or the amount or location of the data from this investigation. Vienna treaty investigations are not subject to freedom-of-information or privacy laws.

Do you remember, Abelard.… Once I told you that ecstasy was better than being God." "I remember." "I was wrong, darling. Being God is better.

bio-safety rules were ten times as strict, or supposed to be. Maybe plutonium was bad, but it couldn't jump out of a tank and grow by itself.

He could see time lying on the world like a sheen, a frozen blur of movement chopped out of context and painted onto the surface of the cold stone like alien shellac.

The Internet of Things is not a capitalist marketplace. It's a new platform for radically broadening digital activity.

He knew suddenly that if he fell he would fall forever. Into the abyss, plunging into his own terror and defeat, endlessly, through the self-spinning labyrinth, mind frozen in boundless anguish, a maze of unending experience, unending fright, implacable walls, halls, steps, ramps, crypts, vaults, passages, always icy, always out of reach.

The Internet of Things is supposed to be invisible to all but its corporate and military masters. But the Internet itself is hugely obvious and famous—because, even though the Internet is also corporate and military in its origins, for about a decade the Internet was all anybody talked about.

Because these things never work out as you plan. Reality's a horde of mice, nibbling away in the basement of your dreams.…

A true commitment to the side of Life demands the moral act of Creation

This is work," Andrei said. "Not a game." "We don't make that distinction," David told him seriously. "We do not have to 'work' in Rizome—just things to do and people to do them.

The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.

The Dark Girl laughed aloud, revealing a gray mouthful of sharp, serrated teeth. "You ask me to prophesy? I am the Mother of Fantasies, the Mother of Faith, Hope, and the Church." De Maillet stared, clutching his ebony cane to his chest. "You are Ignorance.