All Charles Stross Quotes
- 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… Battleground
- I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos – in which my existence was a random roll… Arrives
- 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… Average
- To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it? Boldly
- One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time. Ape
- Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness. Awareness
- Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy. 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… Bacon
- 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… All
- [Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.] All
- 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… Accidents
- 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. Array
- --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. Annoying
- Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now! Gene
- We are Bay Aryans from Berkeley: prepare to be reengineered in an attractive range of color schemes for your safety and comfort! Aryans
- Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children. Any
- Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again. Absorb
- 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… C Programmer
- Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown. Brown
- Christmas: the one time of year when you can’t avoid the nuts in your family muesli. Avoid
- Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint. And that's just scratching the surface... Bullshit
- Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its presence until it's… Bit
- 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 kind… Agony
- Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends… All