We are Bay Aryans from Berkeley: prepare to be reengineered in an attractive range of color schemes for your safety and comfort! — Charles Stross Attractive 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… — 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 Born 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,… — Charles Stross Answers Copy Share Image
Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life. — Charles Stross Destroying 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… — Charles Stross Adverbs 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 Agony Copy Share Image
I don't like Amazon (wearing my author hat, not my customer hat). — Charles Stross Amazon Copy Share Image
“Some say the Internet is for porn but you know that in truth the Internet is for spam.” — Charles Stross Internet Copy Share Image
If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty. — Charles Stross Forget Copy Share Image
“If he wakes the ancient sleeping horrors I am going to have to brief the private secretary and the Joint Intelligence Oversight… — Charles Stross Prime minister Copy Share Image
“Crawling eldritch horrors don’t get planning permission unless they’re Trump’s hairpiece.)” — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“A historian who works for a bank: That’s not the most likely background for someone who capers around the cosmos having adventures,… — Charles Stross Adventure Copy Share Image
“MONDAY DAWNS BRIGHT AND HOT AND EARLY, AND I FIND MY SELF waking to the happy knowledge that I can go back… — Charles Stross Monday Copy Share Image
“and go looking for a potted plant that appears hardy enough to survive being irrigated with the stuff.” — Charles Stross Gardening Copy Share Image
“reach into my travel bag and pull out my hacked Palm computer,” — Charles Stross Travel Copy Share Image
“Apparently you’re only allowed to demolish Wolverhampton if you’re a property developer like Donald Trump. Crawling eldritch horrors don’t get planning permission… — Charles Stross Footnote Copy Share Image
“For my sins and because I discovered a wunch of bankers suffering from the syndrome to which we’ve assigned the keyword OPERA… — Charles Stross Programming Copy Share Image
Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again. — Charles Stross Administrators Copy Share Image
“I try not to notice the exploded eyeballs or the ruptured tongue bursting through the blackened lips. This job is quite gross… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I reckon I can count on 30 more writing years, averaging a book a year (I can't keep up the 2-2.5 a… — Charles Stross Book Copy Share Image
I'm an individual. I do not want to get into a pissing match with an organization that is a de-facto gigadollar-turnover multinational! — Charles Stross Individual Copy Share Image
If I write too much of anything for too long, I burn out on it. So it helps to vary my output… — Charles Stross Burn out Copy Share Image
