Bruce Sterling Quotes

The Internet is an audience of one, a million times over.

Twitter is a place where you share your thoughts, yourself... you don't want a plain white backdrop for that. You want the entire page to say something about who you are. Designer or not, if the urge strikes you, go for it. Put up that watercolor you've never shown anyone. Take a photo of that hat you just knitted... whatever it is, share it.

Just as I never liked bumper stickers - even though I do brake for animals, and if I had a kid, she would definitely be an honor student - I don't like the idea of expressing my views through social-media-controlled rainbow-or-anything-else-ification.

I like having my cellphone. I like the Internet. I like being different.

Facebook has woven itself into the fabric of our lives and the foundation of the Internet. I think everything will be redefined because people are using their real identities on the Internet.

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

Creative freedom and self-expression is what MySpace is all about.

If I'm reading my Facebook feed, it's using algorithms, procedures, and methods to give me what I want, or what it thinks that I want, or what suits its business plan.

I think, having grown up with the Internet, things like trolls and the world of having an online life as well as a physical one, it's something I've grown up with.

If you make the Internet, live on the internet.

The Internet is showing us what it thinks we want to see, but not necessarily what we need to see.

When I'm on the net, someone always wants to chat with me. But outside of MySpace, it's a completely different world. I don't get recognized that much on the street.

Why would anyone say this stuff about themselves on the Internet? It's crazy!

There's always going to be a tradeoff between trolling and anonymity, and I guess that's the way life will be. And you can manage it, but you can't cure it.

Rant would tell people: 'You're a different human being to everybody you meet.

Desiring things widely different for their various tastes.

I don't even have Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. Why would I ever want to be viral when I'm not even on the Internet?

The internet is ruthless. And people are very, very happy to let you know when they don't like something.

The Internet gave a place like, 'Oh, I'll do whatever I want now. Nobody's going to see it anyways.' Oddly enough, people started watching and I got more confident, comfortable with it.

My friends actually found a fansite of mine, and they all registered to be in it.

The benefit of an open town hall meeting is one that you get to hear a lot of different views, and two it has credibility.

I take what people feel and think, especially when it's different from, very seriously, and I find it liberating.

I draw a distinction between freedom of the internet and freedom via the internet. In the first case, it's making sure cyberspace is not over regulated and people can say what they want without fear of repercussions. But that's different from this freedom via the internet notion, which is often touted by all sorts of conservatives and neoconservatives who want young people in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world to use Facebook and Twitter and then go oppose their governments.

With the Internet there is even more fractioning since we are in echo chambers. With so much propaganda it is hard to calm down enough to listen.

Facebook was looking at which links I clicked on, and it was noticing that I was clicking more on my liberal friends' links than on my conservative friends' links. And without consulting me about it, it had edited them out. They disappeared.