Bruce Sterling Quotes
Worrying about a large institution, especially when it has computers, is like worrying about a large gorilla, especially when it's on fire.
Sterling, Bruce. Keynote Address. Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference (CFP), 1993.
There are several different strategies for fighting forest fires. Some argue to let them burn themselves out. Others want to burn old brush regularly under control. Still others want to fight every fire regardless of size. Most communities have not reached any decision on these points and as a result, for most communities, none of the strategies prove effective since none are planned for.
Michael Bruce Sterling is an American science fiction author known for his novels and short fiction and editorship of the Mirrorshades anthology. Sterling's first science fiction story, Man-Made Self, was sold in 1976. He is the author of science fiction novels including Schismatrix (1985), Islands In The Net (1988), and Heavy Weather (1994). In 1992, he published his first nonfiction book, The Hacker Crackdown: Law And Disorder On The Electronic Frontier.