In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

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

The brightest minds in our field have been trying to find a definition of science fiction for these past seventy years. The short answer is, science fiction stories are given as possible, not necessarily here and now, but somewhere, sometime.

I am trying to prevent a bloodbath. Is that clear enough for you? I'm trying to prevent a civil war that could kill half the people in this world.

Intelligence is just a tool to be used toward a goal, and goals are not always chosen intelligently.

Anything that can go wrong, will

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!