Hopeless causes are the only ones worth fighting for. The fight for the taxpayer is the most hopeless of them all.

I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.

I do not believe they've run out of surprises.

There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press.

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!