War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize "world peace" even when we get it.

Worrying about a large institution, especially when it has computers, is like worrying about a large gorilla, especially when it's on fire.

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.

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

But from another, deeper perspective: we shouldn't involve outselves in lines of development where the ultimate victory condition is emulating dead people. There's no appeal in that. It's bad for us. That kind of inherent mournfulness is just not a good way to be human.

Find a client and get a job.

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