Technology Quotes 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!

— 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…

— Charles Stross

Generating ideas isn't some mystical talent that you have to be born with: it's a skill you can develop.

— 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.

— Charles Stross

Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.

— Charles Stross

“- Toma un puro, Sherlock. - Lo siento; sólo echo humo cuando me enchufan a la red eléctrica.”

— 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;…

— Charles Stross

“To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before”

— 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…

— Charles Stross

I don't like Amazon (wearing my author hat, not my customer hat).

— Charles Stross

“Some say the Internet is for porn but you know that in truth the Internet is for spam.”

— Charles Stross

If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.

— 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…

— Charles Stross

“Crawling eldritch horrors don’t get planning permission unless they’re Trump’s hairpiece.)”

— 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?”

— Charles Stross