Bruce Sterling Quotes
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Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
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I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
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One time, I pranked my sister: I put red solo cups in her room on her floor and filled them with water. Then I put string all over so you couldn't get anywhere.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.
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Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.
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Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.
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I was used to having a job - ballet was my job, and I felt like I needed something artistic to focus on after I quit.
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Harry Dresden: Death is only frightening from the near side.
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There is a smallest unit of space. Its minimum value is given by the cube of the Planck length... If you take a volume of space and measure it to a very fine precision... It has to fall into some discrete series of numbers, just like the energy of an electron in an atom. ...we can calculate the discrete areas and volumes from the theory.
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I think Gingrich has embarrassed the party over time. Whether he'll do it again in the future, I don't know. But Gov. Romney never has.
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[The publication of his first poem] was wonderful ... but it taught me early on that the only thing that really matters is writing the next poem. Publication is best seen as a happy accident.
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In a start-up society, huge sums can fall on innocent parties, almost by accident .
