Charles Stross Quotes
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Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy.
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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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Adams fancies himself as a big swinging dick in risk analytics: Leave out the 'big' and 'swinging' and he’s right.
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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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A curious horror overtook him, then. His skin crawled; the back of his neck turned damp and cold. I can’t go yet, he thought. It’s not fair! He shuddered. The void seemed to speak to him. Fairness has nothing to do with it. This will happen, and your wishes are meaningless.
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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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Never trust a man who thinks his religion gives him all the answers.
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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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I just don’t like it, for extremely large values of don’t and like.
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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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'We have a problem, sir.''What do you mean, a problem?' demanded the Admiral. 'We’re not supposed to have problems-that’s the enemy’s job!'
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You got overdraft at the mythology bank.