#on

The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#amps #bollywood #corrupt #could #distribution

They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called "war" too. And there will still be no conventional war. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#called #conventional #insane #madmen #place

War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize "world peace" even when we get it. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#any #even #get #however #just

We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that "9/11"? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#call #case #cloud #committed #different

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#coward #forgave #forgive #his #how

It's my privilege to love you. ↗

— Jessica Shirvington

#love

You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#chain #cut #data #evidence #forming

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness. ↗

— John Sterling

#instinct #intelligence #self-consciousness

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords. ↗

— John Sterling

#affords #fiercest #lords #our #own

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one. ↗

— John Sterling

#joy #life #noble #own #pain