A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than y...
STERLING HAYDEN Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.
STERLING HAYDEN I don't think I'll have to kill her. Just slap that pretty face into hamburger meat, that...
STERLING HAYDEN I don't think I'll have to kill her. Just slap that pretty face into hamburger meat, that's all.
STERLING HAYDEN A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inqui...
STERLING HAYDEN Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.
JOHN STERLING I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I...
BRUCE STERLING A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially...
BRUCE STERLING The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So t...
BRUCE STERLING Man is a substance clad in shadows.
JOHN STERLING The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else...
JOHN STERLING There will come a time in your life when you lose something that matters to you. You'll fight for it...
J. STERLING Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.
JOHN STERLING There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and...
JOHN STERLING I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ...
BRUCE STERLING The guy has baggy pants, flat feet, the most miserable, bedraggled-looking little bastard you ever s...
STERLING FORD Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.
JOHN STERLING Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got...
BRUCE STERLING I like people who are achievers.
DONALD STERLING My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. A...
BRUCE STERLING You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, the...
BRUCE STERLING It's not that I can't live without you; it's that I don't want to. There's a difference. We all make...
J. STERLING I don't usually get star struck, but I met Sir Paul McCartney randomly on Sunset Boulevard a few...
STERLING KNIGHT We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing midd...
BRUCE STERLING I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.
BRUCE STERLING Breast cancer is scary and no one understands that like another woman who has gone through it too.
MINDY STERLING I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means...
BRUCE STERLING Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land...
BRUCE STERLING A set of Bollywood actresses are coming through Dallas soon in a live tour; I'd pay a lot to see the...
BRUCE STERLING I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. That's how I became the estee...
BRUCE STERLING They stole our revolution and now we're stealing it back and selling it to Yahoo.
BRUCE STERLING It wasn't until I assembled these texts that I realized that they fell naturally into thematic secti...
BRUCE STERLING In a way, staring into a computer screen is like staring into an eclipse. It's brilliant and you don...
BRUCE STERLING Given the moves in the markets, you have to wonder whether Japan is going to surprise on the upside ...
BILL STERLING One of the biggest fears, from an economic point of view, would have been a catastrophe in the oil f...
BILL STERLING I think there's a one word summary out of this thing: War.
BILL STERLING The economy has hit an air pocket, at minimum.
BILL STERLING The idea that there is going to be a war is thoroughly accepted in the financial markets right now. ...
BILL STERLING I personally think that it's going to be quick, that the Iraqi army will join the Italian army in hi...
BILL STERLING Sure, the plan could push Treasury yields up. But if it contributes to an increased efficiency of th...
BILL STERLING The contagion has now hit the financial sector, which is a bigger deal because it can affect every s...
BILL STERLING The guys with the big deficits want to stimulate policy. And the guys with the big surpluses remain ...
BILL STERLING If China slams on the brakes, there's going to be a wave of pricing pressure.
BILL STERLING After Richmond, we went to Dover and tested that week at Kentucky. I was going to Dover and we had t...
STERLING MARLIN I guess everybody saw it. It's a deal where I'd been racing cars a long time and I knew goin...
STERLING MARLIN A guy came to the shop every day. A lot of guys put the foam like stuff that forms to you, kinda lik...
STERLING MARLIN Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it
JOHN STERLING Everyone is still waiting for the book that everyone greets as the big literary book. People thought...
JOHN STERLING It is high, it is far, it is....GONE!
JOHN STERLING The situation is so complex, and books allow reporters and analysts and participants to go deeper, t...
JOHN STERLING We're having a good time. That's what I did last year. If you can't have a good time, yo...
STERLING MARLIN Erasers would taste good with this sauce.
JAN STERLING They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be ...
BRUCE STERLING They're trying to do a lot of different things to provide for a variety of needs out there. They've ...
GREG STERLING When instant messaging is like Las Vegas, with all kinds of advertising banners, it's very distracti...
GREG STERLING There seems to be parallel development going on among all the major players,
GREG STERLING The dot-com logic of paying big prices to enter new markets has come roaring back,
GREG STERLING The adoption curve will be fast because it's not something that has to be explained, ... People get ...
GREG STERLING This whole space is going to consolidate because it can't support lots of players. Ultimately, I exp...
GREG STERLING Over the long-term, competition in search should increase. Growth is still impressive but it's moder...
GREG STERLING The wireless stuff is pretty far out. It'll be a few years at least before there is widespread adopt...
GREG STERLING Newspapers are still in a relatively strong position if they can act, but the local initiatives by t...
GREG STERLING The support I got from the community, the letters from strangers, was stunning. I thought I was goin...
ANDREW STERLING At the end of the day, the fact that he broke my face is more important than he hurt my feelings.
ANDREW STERLING I'm definitely a romantic comedy dude because I'm a big romantic at heart. I'm a softy, ...
STERLING KNIGHT People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin...
BRUCE STERLING When sunset, like a crimson throat to hell, is cavernous...
(“A Wine of Wizardry”)
GEORGE STERLING Within its gates I heard the sound
Of winds in cypress caverns caught
Of huddling tress th...
GEORGE STERLING (He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits tha...
BRUCE STERLING There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can de...
ROD STERLING It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twe...
ROD STERLING Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.
ROD STERLING I recognized you instantly. All of our lives flashed through my mind in a split second. I felt a pul...
J. STERLING It has become unfashionable to be openly homophobic on Howard's campus.
STERLING WASHINGTON Propaganda, however legitimate, can speak no louder than the truth.
STERLING BROWN Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.
JOHN STERLING It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.
ROD STERLING There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space an...
ROD STERLING The poet, whether in prose or verse, the creator, can only stamp his images forcibly on the page, in...
ROD STERLING (Hornworms are) probably the most - at least potentially - devastating insect pest we have on tobacc...
STERLING SOUTHERN War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or re...
BRUCE STERLING We are starting to see brain changes ahead of cognitive changes. We don't know yet if it predicts th...
STERLING JOHNSON I hate watching people blow all operational security, and spew their guts like a teenage burglar, dr...
BRUCE STERLING The missing link is jobs. But I would guess the odds are 70 or 80 percent that we're going to see st...
BILL STERLING A lot of people are going to be watching the employment report for evidence of whether the economy h...
BILL STERLING This is mobile e-mail for the rest of us, who have normal or tiny screens.
GREG STERLING Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness
JOHN STERLING [The] ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.
JOHN STERLING Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.
JOHN STERLING There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and...
JOHN STERLING A prison becomes a home when you have the key.
GEORGE STERLING O Space and Time and stars at strife,
How dreadful your infinity!
Shrined by your termless...
GEORGE STERLING What silence rules the ghostly hours
That guard the close of human sleep!
(“The Testimon...
GEORGE STERLING She smiled and her whole face lit up. Or maybe it was mine. All I know for certain is that smile lit...
J. STERLING Someday the Sun will explode, and what about our journalism and poetry then? Well, so what? To hell ...
BRUCE STERLING If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with ...
BRUCE STERLING Her gaze did not leave her burning groom, nor did her mind abandon the fact that he was not consumed...
ELIZABETH STERLING And starward drifts the stricken world,
Lone in unalterable gloom
Dead, with a universe fo...
GEORGE STERLING There's this whole new grammar Twitter skill set that I do not possess. I'm not a very good ...
STERLING KNIGHT I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. That's how I became the e...
BRUCE STERLING We're just trying to keep the whale calm and throw water over it. They're talking to the whale as we...
CLARE STERLING I promise to stand by you, to hold you up when you’re about to fall, and to always keep you safe. ...
J. STERLING Microsoft has consistently followed its typically aggressive business behavior. Microsoft firmly bel...
HILLARD STERLING A Bush-driven government will look at these cases with great skepticism before authorizing any sort ...
HILLARD STERLING The game is just too far along for a settlement to re-emerge as a viable alternative.
HILLARD STERLING A little while, their hunger unfulfilled,
The mothlike worlds flit 'round the guttering sun. GEORGE STERLING Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and h...
BRUCE STERLING Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to sta...
BRUCE STERLING Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if ...
BRUCE STERLING You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursue...
BRUCE STERLING If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world,...
BRUCE STERLING I wouldn't describe that 'position' as 'parasitic.' I'd describe that experi...
BRUCE STERLING I'm an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex.
BRUCE STERLING Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.
BRUCE STERLING We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with...
BRUCE STERLING I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ...
BRUCE STERLING I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better med...
BRUCE STERLING I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was...
BRUCE STERLING One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.
BRUCE STERLING The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for variou...
BRUCE STERLING Sometimes letting go is the only way to find out who you're meant to hold on to.
J. STERLING Now, for the first time, the President began to look genuinely powerful, even dangerous. This was a ...
BRUCE STERLING Take away America's money, and you've got a country of tribes.
BRUCE STERLING You're something, alright." I laughed into his bare chest, my eyes closing. "I'm your something..." ...
J. STERLING The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them...
BRUCE STERLING «Brixie wasn’t talking to him, or listening to him. Nothing like that at all. Brixie was off in h...
BRUCE STERLING «“Everybody is in trouble with my dad. My dad only sort of gets the Internet. My dad started look...
BRUCE STERLING «She had Google, and she had Wikipedia. She could look up anything obscure, any words or phrases th...
BRUCE STERLING «Once, I went to this little meeting of Microsoft kids. Like, this high-school trip thing, but it w...
BRUCE STERLING I like them because they had some success last year. They beat Kansas in the first round last year.
LEE STERLING We were all sitting around at the staging area and talking to the boys from Springhill, La. We were ...
RONNIE STERLING They were bumping into each other all the time.
ROBERT STERLING Sometimes life gets ugly before it gets beautiful
J. STERLING I'm a career Air Force officer. We have a saying in the Air Force: 'If you want people to be...
MICHAEL HAYDEN I spend so much time with the brightest and most talented and well-rounded people. I've had the ...
HAYDEN PANETTIERE If Snowden really claims that his actions amounted to genuine civil disobedience, he should go to so...
MICHAEL HAYDEN My personal view is that Iran, left to its own devices, will get itself to that step right below a n...
MICHAEL HAYDEN You go on these Internet blogs and people say the meanest things. I'm a normal person. Just beca...
HAYDEN PANETTIERE CIA relies on a partner's focus, linguistic agility, and cultural depth; in return, the partner ...
MICHAEL HAYDEN Chairman Chaffetz was an enthusiastic supporter of the 'USA Freedom Act,' designed to rein i...
MICHAEL HAYDEN Accusations fit on a bumper sticker; the truth takes longer.
MICHAEL HAYDEN I used to have a little saying I used when people said, 'What are your priorities?' I'd ...
MICHAEL HAYDEN When I was at the CIA I asked my civilian advisory board to tackle some tough questions. Among the t...
MICHAEL HAYDEN I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled tog...
HAYDEN FRY My literal responsibility as director of the CIA with regard to covert action was to inform the Cong...
MICHAEL HAYDEN I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how th...
TOM HAYDEN Thoreau points out clearly that civil disobedience gets its moral authority by the willingness to su...
MICHAEL HAYDEN At the end of the 30 Years War then, Europe broadly decided to separate the sacred from the secular ...
MICHAEL HAYDEN The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of histo...
TOM HAYDEN Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the ...
TOM HAYDEN Access to the security clearance database would disgorge even more detailed personal information, in...
MICHAEL HAYDEN My life experience confirms that the U.S. government frequently overclassifies data. But that's ...
MICHAEL HAYDEN Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. Ther...
TOM HAYDEN I've always wanted to be a Meryl Streep or a Natalie Portman. I want to do all kinds of differen...
HAYDEN PANETTIERE I don't want to be overly dramatic, but Iraq and Syria are gone, and they aren't coming back...
MICHAEL HAYDEN People can tell when you're happy with being you and when you're not. It's only cheesy b...
HAYDEN PANETTIERE One of the things that distinguishes the CIA from the State Department is that the CIA is both asked...
MICHAEL HAYDEN There is no part of the executive branch that more exists on the outer edge of executive prerogative...
MICHAEL HAYDEN We commend President Obama and his administration for taking this strong action against Iceland and ...
HAYDEN PANETTIERE I just went to Hebrew school, had a bar mitzvah. No crazy weird Jewish cult.
HAYDEN SCHLOSSBERG One of the things that I miss the most about cricket and batting in particular is that meditation of...
MATTHEW HAYDEN When you watch the first 'American Pie' movie, you're like... 'I know that jock who&...
HAYDEN SCHLOSSBERG One of the things that made 'American Pie' great was also the sexiness of it.
HAYDEN SCHLOSSBERG Apple and Google want to create encryption for which they could not provide you the key. Their busin...
MICHAEL HAYDEN The intelligence community is governed by the same legal and ethical standards as the rest of Americ...
MICHAEL HAYDEN A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imit...
HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN We want people to be as up to date as possible.
BILL HAYDEN We believe it's an important health issue.
BILL HAYDEN will take a look at what they do propose. The main thing we're looking for is, if they are continuin...
BILL HAYDEN People should be concerned about this information. That's why we want to have steps taken immediatel...
BILL HAYDEN We need to come out strong and stay strong, because at the end it didn't play out the way we wanted ...
BILL HAYDEN Our main concern is to reduce mercury. We look at it clearly as a toxic chemical. We've been doing m...
BILL HAYDEN In each case it was just a few dozen, but it's enough that we do want to take a closer look at it.
BILL HAYDEN This is a long-term problem and we know it will take a while to fix.
BILL HAYDEN All together, we played more as a team.  It seemed to come together at the end, but...
BILL HAYDEN They looked at a number of scenarios for operating the plant, and they could not come up with anythi...
BILL HAYDEN The Constitution defends all of us against unreasonable search and seizure. What constitutes reasona...
MICHAEL HAYDEN The first thing I did after getting a Master's degree - and the Air Force was very kind; they le...
MICHAEL HAYDEN There is an unarguable downside to unbreakable encryption.
MICHAEL HAYDEN You just have this freedom when you're younger - this lack of concern to fail or do anything wro...
HAYDEN PANETTIERE ISIS is a learning enemy, and former Deputy Director of NSA Chris Inglis says that they have gone to...
MICHAEL HAYDEN American political elites feel very empowered to criticize the American intelligence community for n...
MICHAEL HAYDEN In the Cold War, a lot of Soviet actions could be explained as extensions of Czarist imperial ambiti...
MICHAEL HAYDEN When asked if I miss being in government, I usually try to lighten the moment by responding that I a...
MICHAEL HAYDEN When I was director of the CIA, I knew that we had been - and I'm choosing my words very careful...
MICHAEL HAYDEN In the great battle of Antietam, still the bloodiest day in American history, Union forces were led ...
MICHAEL HAYDEN Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam.
TOM HAYDEN I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train m...
HAYDEN FRY When it's football season, I'm all football.
HAYDEN FRY One might oppose the CIA program, but Abu Ghraib it ain't.
MICHAEL HAYDEN The frustrating part of it is that you're generally known for what you did last. I've had th...
HAYDEN PANETTIERE I told them that free people always had to decide where to draw the line between their liberty and t...
MICHAEL HAYDEN The arc of technology is in the direction of unbreakable encryption, and no laws are going to get in...
MICHAEL HAYDEN I don't know if the European Union contributes a great deal to espionage. At the union level, th...
MICHAEL HAYDEN Undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith was equally insistent in 2002-2003 about an operational relatio...
MICHAEL HAYDEN The 2007 National Intelligence Estimate that said Iran had paused its nuclear weaponization work als...
MICHAEL HAYDEN Dissenting analysts passionate about their positions are not unusual in the American intelligence co...
MICHAEL HAYDEN President Obama and his successors are dependent on the 100,000-plus people inside the American inte...
MICHAEL HAYDEN If we are going to conduct espionage in the future, we are going to have to make some changes in the...
MICHAEL HAYDEN When I came to the high-performance arena, I was kind of a one-off in a lot of ways. I was as much a...
MATTHEW HAYDEN