Bruce Sterling: Quotes about people

Bruce Sterling is American writer, speaker, futurist, and design instructor. Explore interesting quotes on people.

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“"Mashups […] nobody's going to listen to mashups in another ten years. Mashups are novelty music. They're like "The Monster Mash." They have no musical staying power. You're pursuing a phantom there. It's bad music, I mean, it's not bad— it's a pastiche, it's like magazine collage— which can be good for what it is. But to pretend that that's like tremendous creative work— No! It's a tremendous creative power— and it can have a tremendous audience, but it's not tremendously good. And we need a little bit of aesthetic honesty in confronting things like this. Just because it's new, and people with laptops can do it, and get away with it, and find an audience for it, does not make it a real cultural advance. It's an epiphenomenon."”

Bruce Sterling

in SXSW 2007  Bruce Sterling Rant (2007).

People , Music

“As a philosophical problem, it comes down to a better way to engage with the passage of time; and I think we're getting close to one, because the imaginative loss of the future is becoming acute.
The most effective political actors on the planet now are people who want to blow themselves up.
These are people who really don't want to get out of the bed in the morning and face another unpredictable day.”

Bruce Sterling

in the Long Now talk "The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole" (2004).

People , Way , Imagination , Problem

“When the People march in one direction, it only hurts to ask awkward questions.”

Bruce Sterling book Islands in the Net

Source: Islands in the Net (1988), Chapter 4 (p. 109)

Hurt , Question , People

“The autumn sun shone brightly. It was still the same sun and the same clouds. The sun didn’t care about the landscape inside people’s heads.”

Bruce Sterling book Islands in the Net

Source: Islands in the Net (1988), Chapter 1 (p. 16)

Sun , Autumn , People