When you canโt imagine how things are going to change, that doesnโt mean that nothing will change. It means that things will change in ways that are unimaginable.
Bruce SterlingWe may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that "9/11"? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.
Bruce SterlingPolitical people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.
Bruce SterlingSaying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.
Bruce Sterling