Charles Stross Quotes

'Democracy 2.0.' He shudders briefly. 'I’m not sure about the validity of voting projects at all, these days. The assumption that all people are of equal importance seems frighteningly obsolescent.'

Charles Stross

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• Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Why
  • Name
  • Last

• I talk every day about doing the right thing.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Day
  • Doing The Right Thing

• I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Want
  • Science
  • Learning

• Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Great
  • Change
  • Years

• I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment, and how easy it is to fix some of those things.

  

  Aaron Peirsol
  • People
  • Hope
  • Day

• From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Money

• All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Responsibility

• Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • People
  • Great
  • Science

• A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.

  

  Vera Wang
  • She
  • Woman
  • Never

• A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Think
  • Balance
  • Difficult

• A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Like

• Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Produce
  • Extraordinary

• These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • You
  • Know
  • Fifties

• When decentralized blockchain protocols start displacing the centralized web services that dominate the current Internet, we'll start to see real internet-based sovereignty. The future Internet will be decentralized.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • Real
  • Future
  • Start

• I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Stronger
  • Redhead

• Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.

  

  Hansjorg Wyss
  • Hope
  • Me
  • Knows

• The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Children
  • Race
  • Possesses

• Oh my gosh, if I could be on '30 Rock', my life would be made. That is my favorite show. My absolute favorite show.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Life
  • Rock
  • My Life

• I was born in Senegal in 1996. My mom moved to New York when I was two years old, so I was raised by my aunt back home.

  

  Khoudia Diop
  • Home
  • Mom
  • Aunt

• I love doing stuff in a harness. It's surprising what you can actually do. I'm reasonably coordinated, so I can do flips and the flipping kicks.

  

  Melanie Scrofano

• With experience, you understand expectations, you understand consequences, but sometimes it gets a little bit hard, especially for me, that I'm a perfectionist - I want to analyse everything. And sometimes it's most important to just let go and trust your instincts. This is what I need to do more of.

  

  Ana Ivanovic
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Trust

• In the late afternoons and early evenings, the crowd is easily over 1 million. That many people simply can't fit in Independence Square. The demonstration spills in to the streets for several blocks.

  

  Bob Schaffer
  • People

• In the wake of the housing debacle in California, more people are buying less expensive homes, making bigger down payments, and staying away from 'creative' and risky financing. It is amazing how fast people learn when they are not insulated from the consequences of their decisions.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Decision
  • Creative

• 'Democracy 2.0.' He shudders briefly. 'I’m not sure about the validity of voting projects at all, these days. The assumption that all people are of equal importance seems frighteningly obsolescent.'

  

  Charles Stross
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Assumption