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

~Bruce Sterling

Topics: About Basic Doing Get Like Nonfiction Paid Pleasant Research Some Write

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I'm an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex.

~Bruce Sterling

Topics: Complex Entertainer

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I wouldn't describe that 'position' as 'parasitic.' I'd describe that experience as 'edifying.' I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here.

~Bruce Sterling

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I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the sun came out of the clouds for me. I love Italy.

~Bruce Sterling

Topics: Ages Came Clouds Felt Good Had Happy Italy Just Like Love Me Out Really September Since Sun Time I Love

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I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. That's how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.

~Bruce Sterling

Topics: Am Became Cultural Esteemed Figure Hooked How Once Punk Scenarios Screwed-Up Student Today I Am T-Shirt

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We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys.

~Bruce Sterling

Topics: Apocalypse Bombs Brink Class Guys Instead Middle Middle Class Middle-Class Might People Poor Poor People Rich Started Suicide

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If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.

~Bruce Sterling

Topics: Business Commonly Course Developing Developing World Disasters Ecological Fail Massive Met Military Politics Quite Repeated Us Will World

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The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.

~Bruce Sterling

Topics: Actress Bollywood Corrupt Could Distribution Making Making Money Maybe Money Movies Off Sell Shoes Some Stepped System Trouble Turned Up

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

~Bruce Sterling

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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 and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.

~Bruce Sterling

Topics: Always Chain Cut Data Evidence Forming Get Going Information Leaks Little Over Pursued Shadow Start Thousands Which You Your

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: April 14th, 1954

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