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"I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it."
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"Find as much information about your subject as you can."
"But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story."
"Young writers should definitely research the current sounds and styles."
"They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not."
"The biologically harmful effects of man-made environmental radiation was a jigsaw of existing information that needed to be assembled by a group of independent researchers that had a broad range of knowledge and were free of corrupt corporate government influence."
"Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better."
"I'm trying to finish my book on the Kennedy assassination."
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"People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they consider that a legitimate thing to do, but they're having mixed success at the job."
"Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music."
"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."
"I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote."
"I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet."
"If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with its hands in its pockets, wondering what's supposed to come next."
"The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing."
"I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere."
"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."
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