“can’t decide whether his next show should be a sitcom about government bureaucrats or a horror series” — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“Private ownerships of a ...slave chip is illegal in many polities. It tends to be a government monopoly, much like other forms… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“Europe has achieved peaceful political union for the first time ever: They're using this unprecedented state of affairs to harmonize the curvature… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“And because this is now a political problem, the usual political syllogism applies: (a) is a problem: Something Must Be Done, (b)… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“April 5th. You know what that means to me? That means the budget for the project expired at the end of financial… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“America is the place where you cannot kill your Government by killing the men who conduct it. The only way you can… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I suspect political fiction is at its best precisely when it doesn't preach, but restricts itself to showing the reader a different… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“There are races that do not enslave, do not slay, do not war. There are races which do not lie or falsify.… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“What are the consequences when the government, the media, and the leaders of commerce all speak with one voice? Why, it means… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“The European Parliament responded by focusing on corporate governance. If corporations wanted to be legal citizens they could damned well shoulder the… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
We are Bay Aryans from Berkeley: prepare to be reengineered in an attractive range of color schemes for your safety and comfort! — Charles Stross Copy Share
“Shut up. Stand up. Put this on. That’s right . . . if you were the kind of man who found it easy to do that kind… — Charles Stross Copy Share
Generating ideas isn't some mystical talent that you have to be born with: it's a skill you can develop. — Charles Stross Copy Share
Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases. — Charles Stross Copy Share
Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life. — Charles Stross Copy Share
“- Toma un puro, Sherlock. - Lo siento; sólo echo humo cuando me enchufan a la red eléctrica.” — Charles Stross Copy Share
I have no policy, for or against: only a personal style. Which is to say, I use them when I think it's appropriate to;… — Charles Stross Copy Share
I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the… — Charles Stross Copy Share
“Some say the Internet is for porn but you know that in truth the Internet is for spam.” — Charles Stross Copy Share
If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty. — Charles Stross Copy Share
“If he wakes the ancient sleeping horrors I am going to have to brief the private secretary and the Joint Intelligence Oversight Committee so… — Charles Stross Copy Share
“Crawling eldritch horrors don’t get planning permission unless they’re Trump’s hairpiece.)” — Charles Stross Copy Share
“A historian who works for a bank: That’s not the most likely background for someone who capers around the cosmos having adventures, is it?” — Charles Stross Copy Share
