“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that every insterstellar colony in search of good fortune must be in need of a banker.” — Charles Stross Banker Copy Share Image
“They can put the code monkey in a suit but they can't take the code out of the monkey.” — Charles Stross Code Copy Share Image
“If you’re a humble believer set on doing your deity’s will, then what are you doing spending the take on Lamborghinis and… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“his arms. Human. Cat. Human. Cat. No doubled vision: it’s a cat, singular. A solitary diurnal ambush hunter with good hearing and… — Charles Stross Dreams Copy Share Image
“America is the place where you cannot kill your Government by killing the men who conduct it. The only way you can… — Charles Stross Men and women Copy Share Image
“You wouldn’t believe the scope for mischief that the Beast of Redmond unintentionally builds into its Office software by letting it execute… — Charles Stross First time Copy Share Image
“We still have cultural attachés?” “We still have pulse-dialing electromechanical Strowger telephone exchanges in the basement”—Lockhart startles me by suddenly rattling off… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written… — Charles Stross Communication Copy Share Image
I have not watched the TV show. I do not generally watch TV sci-fi drama shows. They make me itch. — Charles Stross Drama Copy Share Image
I think that if there's one key insight science can bring to fiction, it's that fiction - the study of the human… — Charles Stross Forever Copy Share Image
“To a many-angled one, we impoverished entities who are stranded in three-plus-one dimensions are fairly harmless; nevertheless, even the inhabitants of flatland… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“They’ll like it even less if I hear any words from them,” I said. You have to be firm with colonial troops:… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
No two books come out the same way. Some I write by the seat of my pants; others are planned in minute… — Charles Stross Book Copy Share Image
“★ ★★What is this eigenplot you keep talking about?★★ I ask. I’m dangerously close to whining. I really hate it when everyone… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness. — Charles Stross Awareness Copy Share Image
I don't keep anything on paper (except within an actual novel in progress, at which point I need a file to keep… — Charles Stross Character Copy Share Image
“Finally, they began to investigate the prime minister, Harold Wilson. Wilson, Wright was convinced, was a KGB agent.” I’m nodding along like… — Charles Stross Prime minister Copy Share Image
“Fifteen minutes later I’m hunched over the steering wheel of a two-seater that looks like something you’d find in your corn flakes… — Charles Stross Corn flakes 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 Baskets Copy Share Image
I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others. — Charles Stross Couple Copy Share Image
“It’s not just the music. When we develop a working AI or upload minds, we’ll need a way of defending it against… — Charles Stross Music Copy Share Image
I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos – in which my existence was… — Charles Stross Atheist Copy Share Image
Book depository is nothing new; there've been outlets selling books internationally via mail order for many decades - the only change is… — Charles Stross Book Copy Share Image
More often than not, piracy is a symptom of an under-provisioned market. — Charles Stross Piracy Copy Share Image
