I have a CS degree and a history that includes working as a software developer and being a computer magazine columnist back… — Charles Stross Attention Copy Share Image
“After a few seconds to savor his self-derailment, Derek gets back on course.” — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“I am the Eschaton. I am not your God. I am descended from you, and exist in your future. Thou shalt not… — Charles Stross Science fiction Copy Share Image
“I’m going flat out at maybe a hundred and fifty kilometers per hour on the autobahn while some joker is shooting at… — Charles Stross Joker Copy Share Image
“Thou shalt not violate causality within my historic light cone. Or else.” — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“Then the screen comes on, showing a familiar menu on a blue background and I stare at it, transfixed, like a yokel… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
The trouble is, if you go too far towards being polite, the label that applies is "doormat". — Charles Stross Being polite Copy Share Image
Many science fiction writers are literary autodidacts who focus on the genre primarily as a literature of ideas rather than as a… — Charles Stross Art 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
“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
The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These… — Charles Stross Appeals Copy Share Image
“Manfred used to be a flock of pigeons -- literally, his exocortex dispersed among a passel of bird brains, pecking at brightly… — Charles Stross Pigeons 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
“concentrate on my deep breathing and the whole mindfulness shtick and on trying not to casually squeeze the contents of a taxiing… — Charles Stross Mental health Copy Share Image
[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.] — Charles Stross Humans 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 Copy Share Image
“It’s insane, but no more insane than Japan shutting down its entire nuclear reactor fleet in the middle of a heat wave… — Charles Stross Heat wave Copy Share Image
Personally, I avoid deus ex machina like the plague - if you have to use one, it means you failed to set… — Charles Stross Closure Copy Share Image
I wrote two million words of crap. Maybe I'm just a slow learner . — Charles Stross Crap 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
“corruption is defined in narrow terms to nail the poor deluded fool who slips a £20 note inside the cover of their… — Charles Stross Corruption 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
What I've learned during my life is that the near future is 90% identical to the present - if you buy a… — Charles Stross Car Copy Share Image
