The programmers have another saying: 'The question of whether a machine can think is no more interesting than the question of whether… — Charles Stross Computers Copy Share Image
Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting. — Charles Stross Books Copy Share Image
“experience has taught me that it is best never knowingly to underestimate the lethality of a sufficiently determined butler.” — Charles Stross Butler Copy Share Image
“I spent six hours becoming one with a shrubbery last night. There were three cloudbursts and a rain of small and very… — Charles Stross Frogs Copy Share Image
“This has serveral consequences, starting with screwing over most cryptography algorithms--translation: all your bank account are belong to us--” — Charles Stross Bank account 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
To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it? — Charles Stross Certain Copy Share Image
“Bob loses saving throw vs. shiny with a penalty of -5. Bob takes 2d8 damage to the credit card.” — Charles Stross Apple Copy Share Image
“Imagine, Sir David, the end of all you ever wanted brought about because an idiot banker did not prioritize highly enough a… — Charles Stross Sir David 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
Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its… — Charles Stross Gone Copy Share Image
The real challenge in this line of work is being able to weed the productive ones from the chaff, to decide which… — Charles Stross Nine months 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
An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format… — Charles Stross Acquire Copy Share Image
For a sampler, you could try my short story collection "Wireless". Which contains one novella that scooped a Locus award, and one… — Charles Stross Awards Copy Share Image
Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to… — Charles Stross Book Copy Share Image
“That’s all right, pay no attention to me, just make yourself at home,” I tell the self-propelled whoopee cushion, then audit the… — Charles Stross Bottom line Copy Share Image
“Annette sighs. Manfred's been upgrading this robot cat for years, and his ex-wife Pamela used to mess with its neural configuration, too:… — Charles Stross Cats Copy Share Image
I believe modern SF needs to at least be aware of the singularity, if only so that it can dismiss it intelligently… — Charles Stross Believe Copy Share Image
“The morning after her date with her nerdishly cute prince of darkness, Cassie is scheduled for a lecture at nine o’clock. She… — Charles Stross Life's too short Copy Share Image
“AFTER WE DO THE WASHING-UP, I GET TO SPEND THE REST OF the evening reading FAQs on cat maintenance on the web.… — Charles Stross Maintenance Copy Share Image
“The food’s very good,” I offer defensively. “It’s not that”—she gazes past my shoulder—“it’s the culture. It’s very Californian. I wasn’t expecting… — Charles Stross Californian 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
“Your health is probably good if you have just been reinstantiated, and is likely to remain good for some time. Most diseases… — Charles Stross Doctor Copy Share Image
I am a lazy, cynical, middle-aged guy who has long since come to the conclusion that most historical periods really sucked, for… — Charles Stross Cynical Copy Share Image
One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time. — Charles Stross Apes Copy Share Image
“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
“The male ego is a curious thing. It’s about the size of a small continent but it’s extremely brittle.” — Charles Stross Male Copy Share Image
“But, as Andy pointed out, if being a smart-arse was an offence, the Laundry would not exist in the first place.” — Charles Stross First place Copy Share Image
“Never bring a knife to a gun fight," I tell Mr. Crispy as I turn away from him. His right arm thinks… — Charles Stross Humor 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
Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint. And that's just scratching the surface... — Charles Stross Bullshit Copy Share Image
“can’t decide whether his next show should be a sitcom about government bureaucrats or a horror series” — Charles Stross Politics 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
It turns out that the killer application for virtual reality is other human beings. Build a world that people want to inhabit,… — Charles Stross Human Copy Share Image
I was an early adopter: have been on the internet continuously since late 1989, barring a six-month loss of access in the… — Charles Stross Access Copy Share Image
Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything. — Charles Stross Amnesia Copy Share Image
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
“The encapsulated bird your conspirators sent you to fetch. The sterilized male chicken with the Creator DNA sequences. The plot capon. Where… — Charles Stross Chicken Copy Share Image
If an idea is compelling enough it'll stick in my head until I am forced to write it. If it's forgettable, who… — Charles Stross Care Copy Share Image
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