“Apparently you’re only allowed to demolish Wolverhampton if you’re a property developer like Donald Trump. Crawling eldritch horrors don’t get planning permission… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“For my sins and because I discovered a wunch of bankers suffering from the syndrome to which we’ve assigned the keyword OPERA… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“Because if there’s one thing worse than an IT manager who’s feeling the chill wind of obsolescence blowing down his neck and… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“She extends a fingertip. After a moment's hesitation, Manfred extends a fingertip of his own. They touch, exchanging vCards and instant-messaging handles.… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I have a CS degree and a history that includes working as a software developer and being a computer magazine columnist back… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“And now my blood ran cold. Because if there’s one thing worse than an IT manager who’s feeling the chill wind of… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
The programmers have another saying: 'The question of whether a machine can think is no more interesting than the question of whether… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“They can put the code monkey in a suit but they can't take the code out of the monkey.” — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“- Toma un puro, Sherlock. - Lo siento; sólo echo humo cuando me enchufan a la red eléctrica.” — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Some say the Internet is for porn but you know that in truth the Internet is for spam.” — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
