Charles Stross Quotes
'Sounds kind of long-term to me. Just how far ahead do you think?''Very long-term-at least twenty, thirty years. And you can forget governments for this market, Bob; if they can’t tax it, they won’t understand it.'
Quotes to Explore
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
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I didn't have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude... I didn't have anyone who looked like me. And by the time I was old enough to have what could have been a role model, they were my peers. Aziz Ansari is my peer. Kal Penn is my peer.
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When companies minimize their costs, they can spend more on R & D and marketing. It's just very logical.
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Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don't pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a bathtub or in front of a cow in the countryside with dirt everywhere, well, the dresses come back... ready to be put in the garbage.
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I'm not a materialistic person.
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I was definitely the kid in the back of the class with his head down the whole time not wanting to speak up and say anything.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
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I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life.
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He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.
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I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.
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I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts from all my friends going, 'What's the matter with you?' But I haven't ever made a big attempt to have any particular image. And I don't really worry about it. If it's funny, I don't care.
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The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.
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Those trying to get support for their iPhones don't necessary trust their carriers, so they ask their friends for help.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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(On being called cynical & skeptical): 'I do have a healthy skepticism, I think we all should. But I think if you listen closely enough, you’ll find that my message, if I as a joke-blower could be pompous enough to have one, is that we’re all alright and it’s gonna work out. I don’t find that cynical at all.'
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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I think there's a special relationship between the center and quarterback.
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To live is to war with trolls.
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'Sounds kind of long-term to me. Just how far ahead do you think?''Very long-term-at least twenty, thirty years. And you can forget governments for this market, Bob; if they can’t tax it, they won’t understand it.'
