"Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance."

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Bruce Sterling

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“Beauty matters. It is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings. If we ignore this need we find ourselves in a spiritual desert.”
“In a certain sense I made a living for five or six years out of that one star [Ï… Sagittarii] and it is still a fascinating, not understood, star. It's the first star in which you could clearly demonstrate an enormous difference in chemical composition from the sun. It had almost no hydrogen. It was made largely of helium, and had much too much nitrogen and neon. It's still a mystery in many ways ... But it was the first star ever analysed that had a different composition, and I started that area of spectroscopy in the late thirties.”
“I'm quite dyslexic in school.”

Source : "Georgia May Jagger: The Interview" by Christine Lennon, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 15, 2010.
“It's not the possibility of Stalinism in the U.S. that's worrying me, it's the fact that the Stalinist C.P. seems doomed to fail and to bring down with it all the humanitarian tendencies I personally believe in--all the while acting as a mould on which its obverse the fascist mentality is made--and this recent massacre is certainly a sign of Stalinism's weakness not of its strength. None of that has anything to do with Marx's work--but it certainly does influence one's attitude towards a given political party.”
“The invention of printing radically changed ways of thinking ¾ not just how things are communicated, but what can be thought”
“I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored.”
“It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt.”
“When diving to attack always leave a proportion of your formation above to act as top guard.”

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