Bruce Sterling Quotes

It's really weird watching the government watch me.

It's creepy, knowing someone might be watching me. Why do they need that?

Surveillance is just getting too easy right now. And this is only because of technology..

'1984,' one of the most important works ever written, helped us understand the Cold War. In '1984,' the dictatorship was always surveilling you. Now, young people want to be surveyed. They want people to know where they are at all times.

Someone is always watching or listening.

The global threat of 'Big Brother' can actually be conquered purely by technology.

Big Brother is home. He is installed in the item you just dragged home from the Apple store.

Whether or not Big Brother is watching us, we certainly have to watch him, which may be even worse.

If the FBI parks a van bristling with cameras outside your house, you are justified in closing your blinds.

What the government wants is something they never had before. They want total awareness. The question is, is that something we should be allowing?

I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to communicate with each other in privacy, without it being monitored, without it being measured or analyzed or sort of judged by these shadowy figures or systems, any time they mention anything that travels across public lines.

NSA surveillance is a complex subject - legally, technically and operationally.

There was a possibility I could have been under surveillance.

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.

Everything I say and do, I assume that I am being spied on.

Even if you’re not doing anything wrong, you’re still being watched and recorded.

I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.

The fact that Facebook presents facial recognition programmes as a desirable development, well, that in itself is a decisive step toward fascism, as far as I'm concerned.

Closed Circuit' came out of a general anxiety about surveillance. Government surveillance and private surveillance.

The term Big Brother is from George Orwell's book 1984 - where everyone's watched over by a network of cameras called Big Brother. I've never understood why Orwell chose that phrase for somebody watching you all the time. Isn't that more like Creepy Uncle?

We are being watched. It's now time for us to watch the watchers.

Nothing we do is ever going unnoticed. It's on CCTV cameras, it's on iphones, it's everywhere.

Have you noticed the people most likely to be up in arms about governments apparently spying on us tend to be the most non-private people you know? The people launching petitions and wailing about Big Brother and data collection are most likely to be the most constant self-presenters.

Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut its doors.

Big Brother doesn't like all these Little Brothers looking at it.