222 quotes
Human consciousness isn’t optimized for anything, except maybe helping feral hominids survive in the wild.
Rule 34 (2011)
No plan of battle survives contact with the enemy, and time is the ultimate opponent.
Rule 34 (2011)
Never trust a man who thinks his religion gives him all the answers.
Halting State (2007)
In my experience, the best way to deal with such people is to politely agree with everything they say, then ignore them.
Glasshouse (2006)
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a sane employee in possession of his wits must be in want of a good manager.
The Fuller Memorandum (2010)
I hate it when people let their professionalism get in the way of real life.
The Atrocity Archives (2004)
Superficial appearances are misleading precisely because, so much of the time, they’re accurate.
The Rhesus Chart (2014)
As every secret policeman knows, there is no such thing as a coincidence; the state has too many enemies.
Singularity Sky (2003)
A man so wrapped in secrecy that his shadow doesn’t have a high enough security clearance to stick to his heels.
The Apocalypse Codex (2012)
Policing, as with all procedural jobs, expands to fill all the time and consume all the resources available for it.
Rule 34 (2011)
Let’s just say that you can’t always trust the historical record and move swiftly on.
The Fuller Memorandum (2010)
Never attribute to incompetence that which can be adequately explained by jet lag.
The Apocalypse Codex (2012)
There is good management and bad management: good management is like air—you don’t know it’s there until it’s gone away.
The Apocalypse Codex (2012)
Politics is shit; it corrupts everything it touches, and getting involved in it only leads to misery and dissatisfaction.
Saturn's Children (2008)
Ninety-five percent of all human-readable traffic over the net is spam, a figure virtually unchanged since the late noughties.
Rule 34 (2011)
A dark-skinned human with four arms walks toward me across the floor of the club, clad only in a belt strung with human skulls.
Glasshouse (2006)
You keep invoking some God but I don’t think he’s listening right now.
The Nightmare Stacks (2016)
On the other hand, unreliability never stopped anyone from using a given technology—just look at Microsoft if you don’t believe me.
The Fuller Memorandum (2010)
Contingency time is useless wasted time, right until you need it.
The Labyrinth Index (2018)
Policing is one of those jobs that will always revolve around a meatspace hub, if only because you can’t build a cellblock in cyberspace.
Rule 34 (2011)