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> [“As Terry Pratchett observed, inside every eighty-year-old man is an eight-year-old wondering what the hell just happened to him”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-stross/as-terry-pratchett-observed-inside-every-eighty-year-old-man-is-an/)

[Charles Stross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-stross/)

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## More by Charles Stross

> [We are Bay Aryans from Berkeley: prepare to be reengineered in an attractive range of color schemes for your safety and comfort!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-stross/we-are-bay-aryans-from-berkeley-prepare-to-be-reengineered-in-an/)

[Charles Stross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-stross/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-stross/shut-up-stand-up-put-this-on-that-s-right-if-you-were-the-kind-of-man/)

[Charles Stross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-stross/)

> [Generating ideas isn't some mystical talent that you have to be born with: it's a skill you can develop.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-stross/generating-ideas-isn-t-some-mystical-talent-that-you-have-to-be-born/)

[Charles Stross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-stross/)

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-stross/any-replacement-to-the-current-copyright-position-life-plus-70-years/)

[Charles Stross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-stross/)

> [Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-stross/time-is-a-corrosive-fluid-dissolving-motivation-destroying-novelty/)

[Charles Stross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-stross/)

> [“- Toma un puro, Sherlock. - Lo siento; sólo echo humo cuando me enchufan a la red eléctrica.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-stross/toma-un-puro-sherlock-lo-siento-s-lo-echo-humo-cuando-me-enchufan-a/)

[Charles Stross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-stross/)

> [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;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-stross/i-have-no-policy-for-or-against-only-a-personal-style-which-is-to-say/)

[Charles Stross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-stross/)

> [“To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-stross/to-boldly-go-where-no-uploaded-metahuman-colony-has-gone-before/)

[Charles Stross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-stross/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-stross/i-was-raised-thinking-that-moral-and-ethical-standards-are-universals/)

[Charles Stross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-stross/)

> [I don't like Amazon (wearing my author hat, not my customer hat).](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-stross/i-don-t-like-amazon-wearing-my-author-hat-not-my-customer-hat/)

[Charles Stross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-stross/)

> [“Some say the Internet is for porn but you know that in truth the Internet is for spam.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-stross/some-say-the-internet-is-for-porn-but-you-know-that-in-truth-the/)

[Charles Stross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-stross/)

> [If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-stross/if-i-forget-then-it-might-as-well-never-have-happened-memory-is/)

[Charles Stross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-stross/)

> [“If he wakes the ancient sleeping horrors I am going to have to brief the private secretary and the Joint Intelligence Oversight Committee so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-stross/if-he-wakes-the-ancient-sleeping-horrors-i-am-going-to-have-to-brief/)

[Charles Stross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-stross/)

> [“Crawling eldritch horrors don’t get planning permission unless they’re Trump’s hairpiece.)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-stross/crawling-eldritch-horrors-don-t-get-planning-permission-unless-they/)

[Charles Stross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-stross/)

> [“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?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-stross/a-historian-who-works-for-a-bank-that-s-not-the-most-likely/)

[Charles Stross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-stross/)

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