You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Christmas: the one time of year when you can’t avoid the nuts in your family muesli. — 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
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
“What you or I would recognize as an alien invasion by tentacled horrors from beyond spacetime Angleton would see as a teachable… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“But I can’t be in three places at once!” “Tough,” says Mo, and that shell-like expression cracks into a grin. “You’re management… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
The paucity of near-future U.S. scifi is about the country becoming pessimistic, not being able to see the future clearly. There's a… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“It’s lovely, like the moment of stunned disbelief immediately after you finally snap and tell the world’s most annoying office-mate to shut… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
What I've learned during my life is that the near future is 90% identical to the present - if you buy a… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I am a lazy, cynical, middle-aged guy who has long since come to the conclusion that most historical periods really sucked, for… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“Never bring a knife to a gun fight," I tell Mr. Crispy as I turn away from him. His right arm thinks… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“the geas in question draws its power from the sum over time of the entire loyal British population’s faith in the Crown… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“If they’re smart enough to be useful they get ideas about making themselves indispensable—ideas about getting above their station, as you Brits… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“See, it’s the sudden cognitive whiplash that does it. One moment you’re cruising along effortlessly at thirty thousand feet while the cabin… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“Hopefully we don’t end up as someone else’s dinner.” For a moment I feel a stab of remorse for the lamb: born… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“Your health is probably good if you have just been reinstantiated, and is likely to remain good for some time. Most diseases… — 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 am the Eschaton. I am not your God. I am descended from you, and exist in your future. Thou shalt not… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I have time to write 1-2 novels per year, and get roughly novel-sized ideas every month. I have to perform triage on… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“All life is based on the destruction of other life, even on tremendous scales of space and time... Our ancestors understood that… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“I let the happy times slip through my fingers and gripped on to the sad times as if they were my heart's… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“One moment you’re cruising along effortlessly at thirty thousand feet while the cabin crew slosh the whisky around in business class, the… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“Not everyone is concerned with the deep future,” Manfred interrupts. “It’s important! If we live or die, that doesn’t matter—that’s not 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 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
