Open-source is a means of production. Bruce Sterling More Quotes by Bruce Sterling More Quotes From Bruce Sterling My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone? Bruce Sterling environmentalparksideas Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music. Bruce Sterling politicalguypeople A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend. Bruce Sterling small-partstrendsliterature If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with its hands in its pockets, wondering what's supposed to come next. Bruce Sterling pocketsmilitaryhands Tomorrow composts today. Bruce Sterling composttomorrowtoday Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society. Bruce Sterling cyberspacemirrors It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud. Bruce Sterling technological-developmentsilverclouds Unfortunately, computers are?stupid.Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate. Bruce Sterling computerstupidprofound In a start-up society, huge sums can fall on innocent parties, almost by accident . Bruce Sterling innocentpartyfall The future isn't just unwritten, it's unsearched. Bruce Sterling unwritten People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they consider that a legitimate thing to do, but they're having mixed success at the job. Bruce Sterling successjobspeople As a philosophical problem, it comes down to a better way to engage with the passage of time; and I think we're getting close to one, because the imaginative loss of the future is becoming acute.The most effective political actors on the planet now are people who want to blow themselves up.These are people who really don't want to get out of the bed in the morning and face another unpredictable day. Bruce Sterling philosophicallossmorning It's counterproductive to blither on about "the" future. It's always somebody's future, and we're not who we used to be. Bruce Sterling counterproductiveused-to-beused Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin. Bruce Sterling darklatineurope Every passing year brings us more past futures. Bruce Sterling passingpastyears Find a client and get a job. Bruce Sterling clientsjobs Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry. Bruce Sterling arrogantinquiryspirit The future is a process, not a destination. Richard Stallman is a guy my age. I sympathize with Richard rather more than I sympathize with Richard's open-source ideas, but the guy's a mortal human being and so is his social movement. Open-source is a means of production. Bruce Sterling guymeanideas Every passing year brings us more past futures. Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin. It's counterproductive to blither on about "the" future. It's always somebody's future, and we're not who we used to be. Bruce Sterling darklatinpast "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. Bruce Sterling inquirydesignstories
