Bruce Sterling Quotes

Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society.

Bruce Sterling

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• Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Life
  • Details
  • Negotiation

• I'd visually have that idea. I'm diving off the end of the diving board. I'm not going to be worried about if I'm going to dive into a jellyfish or the water's going to be too cold or the boys are going to beat me. I'm just doing it. And if I do it, it's a good chance I'll make it.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Good
  • Water
  • End

• My first job as premier will be to go back to basics.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Job
  • First
  • Basics

• How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.

  

  Fred Brooks
  • Time

• Whether we notice it or not, we spend our days negotiating for something: for our spouse to do more housework, a child to eat just three more bites or go to bed on time, an extended deadline on a project, a salary increase, a better rate on a vacation package.

  

  Christopher Voss
  • Time
  • Vacation
  • Deadline

• Salt is one of the flavors that makes food taste good - salt, sugar and fat. So it's a natural thing for all chefs and cooks to add salt, because it enhances the flavor of the food. If you go out to eat, I guarantee you're going to be eating a lot of salted foods that you are going to have no idea.

  

  Brett Hoebel
  • Good
  • Food

• You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.

  

  Billy Tauzin
  • Water

• We respect every religion. Everyone is free to practice his religion freely... In the Tunisian parliament, we have even Jews.

  

  Beji Caid Essebsi
  • Free
  • Respect
  • Practice

• I'm big on self-confidence.

  

  Ella Mai
  • Confidence

• Everard sighed, switched off his conscience, and began lying.

  

  Poul Anderson

• When people don't know me any more or want my autograph, then I'll think about retiring.

  

  Johnny Weissmuller
  • People

• He was a real thin, real great-in-shape guy, ... Our heart goes out when something like that happens. You usually just imagine one of our guys. It just devastates everybody. It's a huge loss to everybody.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Great
  • Real
  • Heart

• Once the call of God comes to you, start going and never stop.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Stop
  • Comes

• Prohibition cannot be enforced for the simple reason that the majority of American people do not want it enforced and are resisting its enforcement.

  

  Fiorello LaGuardia
  • People
  • American
  • Simple

• You are so lucky I'm too tired to murder you right now.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Tired
  • Murder

• I was like you are. I thought Jesus came and died on the cross. Jesus' being here was about his death and dying on the cross but it really was about him coming to show us how to do it. To show us the Christ-consciousness that he had and that conciousness abides in all of us. That's what I got. That's what I got.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Death
  • Jesus
  • Dying

• Everyone who observes himself doubting observes a truth, and about that which he observes he is certain; therefore he is certain about a truth. Everyone therefore who doubts whether truth exists has in himself a truth on which not to doubt.... Hence one who can doubt at all ought not to doubt the existence of truth.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Truth
  • Doubt

• You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Life
  • Change
  • inspirational

• a king can only work with his best tools.

  

  T. H. White
  • Work
  • King

• Harry, just go down to the lake tomorrow, right, stick your head in, yell at the merpeople to give back whatever they’ve nicked, and see if they chuck it out. Best you can do, mate.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Lake

• Every morning you put on your clothes to cover your nakedness and protect your body from inclement weather. Why don't you also clothe your soul with the garment of faith? Remember each morning the truths of your creed, and look at yourself in the mirror of your faith. Otherwise, your soul will soon be naked with the nakedness of oblivion.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Why
  • Remember
  • Soul

• Every time the diaphragm winks, the camera repeats the question that now travels through cyberspace and invades, as a modern virus, the memories of machines, men and women. The question that history sets forth. The question which forces us to define ourselves and whose answer makes us human: On which side are you?

  

  Subcomandante Marcos
  • Memories
  • Humans
  • Force

• Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society.

  

  Bruce Sterling
  • Mirrors
  • Cyberspace