I have no policy, for or against: only a personal style. Which is to say, I use them when I think it's… — 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… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I'm a fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberal, and I think fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberalism is an ideological stance that needs defending-if necessary, with a hob-nailed… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I suspect losing paper maps but gaining GPS and online maps is a similar step function: maps still exist, but they're vastly… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
You'll still get guys with an array of badges to demonstrate their importance, but that just excludes people. I think fandom is… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
The problem with ebook filesharing is simply one of scale. But I think the "piracy" problem is massively over-rated. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
What I really think is that our current model of copyright is fundamentally broken. We badly need to replace it with a… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Back in the pre-internet age there were pirate publishers, especially in the third world, who would print physical copies of books, sell… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
The one thing that does happen, every time, though, is that I never get to write a book until I've already been… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I don't think most of my opinions, political or social, are so far outside of the mainstream that they'd cause massive outrage… — 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
Most people think spies are afraid of guns, or KGB guards, or barbed wire, but in point of fact the most dangerous… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I tend to think that immortal souls, invisible sky daddies, and Santa Claus all belong in the same basket. The disposition of… — 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