Information wants you to give me a dollar.

I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. Thats how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.

Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.

One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.

The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.

I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.

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.