Your attitude determines your altitude. Your ambitions are bigger than life Of course. They must be. They encompass it.

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 past is a kind of future that has already happened.

Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.

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.

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

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