Charles Stross Quotes
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Manfred decides that he’s going to do something unusual for a change: He’s going to make himself temporarily rich. This is a change because Manfred’s normal profession is making other people rich. Manfred doesn’t believe in scarcity or zero-sum games or competition-his world is too fast and information-dense to accommodate primate hierarchy games.
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Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.
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I think we may be mistaking the elephant’s tail for a bell-pull.
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As every secret policeman knows, there is no such thing as a coincidence; the state has too many enemies.
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I’m wearing black leggings and a loose top festooned with a Menger sponge of empty pockets stitched out of smaller pockets and smaller still, almost down to the limits of visibility-woven in freefall by hordes of tiny otaku spiders, I’m told, their genes programmed by an obsessive-compulsive sartorial topologist.
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Never trust a man who thinks his religion gives him all the answers.
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Human consciousness isn’t optimized for anything, except maybe helping feral hominids survive in the wild.
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It was a lousy plan, the only thing to commend it being the fact that all the alternatives were worse.
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It was an okay vintage, if you could get past the fact that it was wine, and-stripped of the ability to get drunk on it-wine was just sour grape juice.
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He’s been off-line for the best part of six hours and is getting a panicky butterfly stomach at the idea of not being in touch with everything that’s happened in the last twenty kiloseconds.
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Pubs are, disturbingly, where I hatch most of my best idea-sculptures: possibly it's something to do with the disinhibiting effects of alcohol, or maybe it's just having company to yack at.
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'You have an evil mind!''And this is a bad thing how, exactly?'
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Britain is relatively compact and much closer to the borders of the U.S.S.R. than anywhere in North America.
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You got overdraft at the mythology bank.