Charles Stross Quotes

I don’t get enough practice at killing people to not feel bad about it; I hope I never do, although that’s looking like a forlorn wish these days.

Unfortunately his IQ seems to be off the scale, in the wrong direction.

Let’s just say that you can’t always trust the historical record and move swiftly on.

If life hands your research department lemons and a recipe, you shouldn’t be surprised if they make lemonade for you. Or, better still, anti-lemonade countermeasures.

Some of the worst crimes against humanity are committed by architecture students.

What price an immortal soul, when booty beckons?

I’m not one hundred percent clear on the clinical definition of death, but I’m pretty sure that lying trapped in my own unbreathing body meets some of the requirements.

No plan of battle survives contact with the enemy, and time is the ultimate opponent.

What happens if we don't do this?"
"I don't know. Probably we don't die. I mean, maybe probably. Possibly maybe probably."

One of the great besetting problems of the modern age is what to do with too much information.

The sheer waste of human potential that was the New Republic’s raison d’être offended her sensibilities as badly as a public book-burning, or a massacre of innocents.

I imagine looking after a sixteen-year-old must be a bit of a headache.
""Oh, it's mostly about building trust. She's still in the ugh, parents, uncool stage, but she's self-aware enough to know that it's just something she's going through. So I'm trying to give her enough space that she doesn't feel the need to burn bridges she might want to maintain later. The best thing you can do is provide them with a support framework rather than a cage. Don't try to micromanage and overprotect them, let them know they can come to you when they've got problems, and as long as they've got a reasonably level head, that's what they'll do." He pauses. "And I try to keep a poker face whenever she introduces me to a boyfriend."

I’m beyond introspective self-loathing by now—you lose it fast in this line of work.

Politics is shit; it corrupts everything it touches, and getting involved in it only leads to misery and dissatisfaction.

Quote, the viability of a postsingularity economy of scarcity is indicated by the transition from an indirection-layer-based economy using markers of exchange of goods and services to a tree-structured economy characterized by optimal allocation of productivity systems in accordance with iterated tit-for-tat prisoner’s dilemma. Money is a symptom of poverty and inefficiency. Unquote.