I write almost entlirely on Macs, because: Windows gives me hives. — Charles Stross Give me Copy Share Image
I don't like Amazon (wearing my author hat, not my customer hat). — Charles Stross Amazon Copy Share Image
I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer. — Charles Stross Designer Copy Share Image
Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness. — Charles Stross Awareness Copy Share Image
“Nobody ever imagined a bunch of Orcs would steal a database table…” — Charles Stross Steal Copy Share Image
If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty. — Charles Stross Forget Copy Share Image
--but I find her personality annoying. It's like being molested by a sleeping bag that speaks in Comic Sans with little love-hearts… — Charles Stross Annoying 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 Alien invasion Copy Share Image
“Please note your extensive customs briefing and remember to relinquish any illegal tools or concepts you may be carrying before debarkation.” — Charles Stross Concepts Copy Share Image
“As long as you expect someone or something else to take responsibility for you, you’re a child.” — Charles Stross Child Copy Share Image
“He monologued at me. With PowerPoint.★★ ★★He what? And you’re still sane? Obviously I underestimated you.★★” — Charles Stross Obviously Copy Share Image
“Identity is theft, don’t trust anyone whose state vector hasn’t forked for more than a gigasecond, change is the only constant, et… — Charles Stross Change Copy Share Image
I don't do football. (Grew up in Leeds in the 1970s. Football there was indellibly associated with the National Front, i.e. violent… — Charles Stross Fascist Copy Share Image
“The Rapture of the Nerds has been followed by the Resurrection of the Extremely Confused. (318)” — Charles Stross Eschatology Copy Share Image
Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating… — Charles Stross Brain Copy Share Image
“...A vision from a universe where the Equal Rights Amendment--with its redefinition of personhood--is rejected by the house of deputies: A universe… — Charles Stross Civil rights 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 Corporations Copy Share Image
“My computer terminal whistles at me: YOU HAVE MAIL. No shit, Sherlock, I always have mail. It's an existential thing: if I… — Charles Stross Computers Copy Share Image
Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard… — Charles Stross Books 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
The business of fiction is the study of the human condition, and gender is something that many humans are obsessed with, thus… — Charles Stross Business Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think death is even more inevitable than taxes," his grandmother replies bleakly. "Humans don’t live in a vacuum; we’re part… — Charles Stross Death Copy Share Image
“NASA are idiots. They want to send canned meat to Mars!” Manfred swallows a mouthful of beer, aggressively plonks his glass on… — Charles Stross Mars Copy Share Image
“Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness," Aineko says with a theatrical sigh. "You're as stupid as it's possible for an… — Charles Stross Memory Copy Share Image
“By dawn on Sunday he had been awake for over thirty hours, tracking a crisis of ever-expanding but indeterminate scope. A large… — Charles Stross Crisis Copy Share Image
“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely… — Charles Stross Nineteenth century Copy Share Image
Most people think spies are afraid of guns, or KGB guards, or barbed wire, but in point of fact the most dangerous… — Charles Stross Awake Copy Share Image
I suspect losing paper maps but gaining GPS and online maps is a similar step function: maps still exist, but they're vastly… — Charles Stross Atlas 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 have a fear of nuclear annihilation. I'm a child of the cold war: I didn't live more than 10 miles from… — Charles Stross Aliens Copy Share Image
Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time. — Charles Stross Available Copy Share Image
“He looks like the bastard offspring of a multitool and a mangabot.” — Charles Stross Bastard Copy Share Image
“Of course I grew it in a fucking tank! What do you think I am, a farmer?” — Charles Stross Farm Copy Share Image
“But otherwise it’s darkness, darkness, as far as the eye can see.” — Charles Stross Darkness Copy Share Image
Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown. — Charles Stross Brown Copy Share Image
