Bruce Sterling Quotes

I don't think there will ever be a time when people will stop wanting to bring about change.

Progress is the life-style of man.

We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution.

Ideas do not make a movement; they are themselves merely the product of concrete situations, the intellectual precipitate of particular conditions of life. Movements arise only from the immediate and practical necessities of social life and are never the result of purely abstract ideas. But they acquire their irresistible force and their inner certainty of victory only when they are vitalised by a great idea, which gives them life and intellectual content

America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of its exhausted ideas.

What makes us fully human is the relentless quest for making things a little bit better.

Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.

We would solve a lot of huge problems that are causing massive suffering. Poverty, violence, homophobia, heterosexism, racism, the environment - all these things that are crippling us. We need big, bold, dangerous, crazy ideas to solve these problems. When failure is not an option, innovation and creativity are not options.

The human species is forever in a state of change, forever becoming.

I mean, we're always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.

Karl Marx said, “The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.” A variant to keep in mind is that if you want to change the world you’d better try to understand it. That doesn’t mean listening to a talk or reading a book, though that’s helpful sometimes. You learn from participating. You learn from others. You learn from the people you’re trying to organize. We all have to gain the understanding and the experience to formulate and implement ideas.

You have to keep evolving.

I do not think that there is any time in our history when things were perfect. I do not expect such times in the near future either. But I think every generation has to examine what needs to be done, what belongs to its peace and proceed. And so what needs to be done will change with time depending on the conditions, whatever the conditions happen to be. And they will not be the same for generation after generation.

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.

Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.

Life change for us every single week so.. It's good but I know this aint the peak though.

If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

Society never progresses because the majority one day wakes up and says, “Let’s do things differently.” The majority didn’t wake up and say, “Oh, let’s just free the slaves.” ... Society always progressed because a relatively small group of people — usually considered outrageous radicals by the status quo of their time — had a better idea and articulated another way. That’s simply how evolution works; it’s the mutation — the member of the species who does things differently - that points the way to the future because they’re better adapted for survival.

Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many.

This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.

The history of human growth is at the same time the history of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn, and the brighter dawn has always been considered illegal, outside of the law.

Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word.

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.

We are all just a work in progress.

The future is a process, not a destination.