Charles Stross Quotes

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• Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond…
• I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos – in which my existence was a random roll…
• Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient…
• To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?
• One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time.
• Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.
• Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy.
• A religious college in Cairo is considering issues of nanotechnology: If replicators are used to prepare a copy of a strip of bacon, right down…
• The real world is devoid of narratives, after all. Narratives are just a thing that our brains do with facts in order to draw a…
• [Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]
• Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop…
• You'll still get guys with an array of badges to demonstrate their importance, but that just excludes people. I think fandom is more inclusive now.
• --but I find her personality annoying. It's like being molested by a sleeping bag that speaks in Comic Sans with little love-hearts over the i's.
• Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!
• We are Bay Aryans from Berkeley: prepare to be reengineered in an attractive range of color schemes for your safety and comfort!
• Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.
• Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.
• Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get…
• Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown.
• Christmas: the one time of year when you can’t avoid the nuts in your family muesli.

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