All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night. — Charles Stross Islands Copy Share Image
Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme… — Charles Stross Average 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
“Waaant equity," hisses the alien intruder. "You can't be Pamela Macx," says Pierre, his back to the wall, keeping the sword point… — Charles Stross Algorithm Copy Share Image
I suspect political fiction is at its best precisely when it doesn't preach, but restricts itself to showing the reader a different… — Charles Stross Best Copy Share Image
“The dirty little secret of the intelligence-gathering job is that information doesn’t just want to be free—it wants to hang out on… — Charles Stross Intelligence Copy Share Image
The problem with ebook filesharing is simply one of scale. But I think the "piracy" problem is massively over-rated. — Charles Stross Piracy Copy Share Image
A dark-skinned human with four arms walks toward me across the floor of the club, clad only in a belt strung with… — Charles Stross Arms Copy Share Image
If you're going to write for a living, you should find something fun to write. — Charles Stross Find Copy Share Image
“Then the red light comes on above the camera, and I’m live on a Monday evening special crisis edition of Newsnight.” — Charles Stross Red light Copy Share Image
Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among… — Charles Stross Debate Copy Share Image
I drink tea pretty much continuously at a rate of around 1 imperial pint/hour, which sort of enforces screen/keyboard breaks. — Charles Stross Break Copy Share Image
“Back to my question: is it better to reign in Hell—or should I aspire to be a citizen in the early years… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“Bet you he’s a smart sociopath, the kind that does well in midlevel management, all fur coat and no knickers—and willing to… — Charles Stross Management Copy Share Image
“Nobody ever imagined a bunch of Orcs would steal a database table…” — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“But I can’t be in three places at once!” “Tough,” says Mo, and that shell-like expression cracks into a grin. “You’re management… — Charles Stross Management Copy Share Image
There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down… — Charles Stross Age Copy Share Image
“[...] Howard Phillips Lovecraft of Providence, Rhode Island, for cultivating a florid and overblown prose style that covered the entire spectrum from… — Charles Stross Rhode island 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 Copy Share Image
I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer. — Charles Stross Designer 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
“where it’s not unusual for certain senior personnel to keep such a low profile that only the payroll computers in HR can… — Charles Stross Senior Copy Share Image
