Charles Stross Quotes

The five stages of bureaucratic grieving are: denial, anger, committee meetings, scapegoating, and c...

Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place...

I am me and I have been Juliette and both of us have dreamed this dream repeatedly. And what makes t...

Some say the Internet is for porn but you know that in truth the Internet is for spam.

Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you...

Christmas: the one time of year when you can’t avoid the nuts in your family muesli.

Private ownerships of a ...slave chip is illegal in many polities. It tends to be a government monop...

Only debt is forever.

All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night.

They need a social mechanism to make us require conformity of one other, and the best way to do that...

First and most importantly, death is just the absence of life—oh, and for human beings, the absence ...

Annette sighs. Manfred's been upgrading this robot cat for years, and his ex-wife Pamela used to mes...

...A vision from a universe where the Equal Rights Amendment--with its redefinition of personhood--i...

Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when languag...

Your health is probably good if you have just been reinstantiated, and is likely to remain good for ...

Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.

Don’t you have any concept of individuality?" she asks, annoyed by its presumption at meddling with ...

Identity is theft, don’t trust anyone whose state vector hasn’t forked for more than a gigasecond, c...

NASA are idiots. They want to send canned primates to Mars!" Manfred swallows a mouthful of beer, ag...

The rules of physics are, in some cases, suspiciously anthropic.

Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown.

I let the happy times slip through my fingers and gripped on to the sad times as if they were my hea...

Science fiction was rocket-mad for about 40 years until aerospace hit a brick wall about 1970. I wou...

One of my earliest recollections is being woken up at some ungodly hour in the morning by my parents...

Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, ...

Although I am unconvinced that I desire life, I am not yet ready to embrace death.

The encapsulated bird your conspirators sent you to fetch. The sterilized male chicken with the Crea...

I am the Eschaton. I am not your God.I am descended from you, and exist in your future.Thou shalt no...

This has serveral consequences, starting with screwing over most cryptography algorithms--translatio...

Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb...

There are good ways and bad ways to get my attention. Whacking on my ego with a crowbar will get my ...

Bob loses saving throw vs. shiny with a penalty of -5. Bob takes 2d8 damage to the credit card.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a sane employee in possession of his wits must be in wan...

Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and y...

There is a philosophy by which many people live their lives, and it is this: life is a shit sandwich...

I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone...

Old Enochian running on neural wetware is not the fastest procedural language ever invented, and it’...

We are medium-sized mammals who only prosper because we've developed a half-arsed ability to terrafo...

Helpfiles are traditionally outnumbered by no-help files, which superficially resemble a helpfile in...