Charles Stross Quotes

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Charles David George "Charlie" Stross (born 18 October 1964 in Leeds) is a writer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. His works range from science fiction and Lovecraftian horror to fantasy.

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Never underestimate the intrinsic, as opposed to ideological, conservatism of an idea like revolution once it’s got some momentum behind it.

Singularity Sky (2003)

Almost everything in the pop culture lexicon of vampirism is basically fiction—and fiction is the art of telling entertaining lies for money.

The Rhesus Chart (2014)

Er, I can’t confirm or deny, but that’s a good guess.

Iron Sunrise (2004)

What price an immortal soul, when booty beckons?

The Apocalypse Codex (2012)

She’s half-past overdrawn at the bank of life.

The Fuller Memorandum (2010)

Any job I do—if it doesn’t work, somebody pays. Possibly hundreds or thousands of somebodies. That’s the price of good engineering; nobody notices you did your job right.

Singularity Sky (2003)

One of the great besetting problems of the modern age is what to do with too much information.

The Rhesus Chart (2014)

It’s amazing how much work you can get done in three days if you hold a blowtorch to each end of the candle.

The Annihilation Score (2015)

Beauty may be skin-deep, but horror goes all the way down to the desiccated bone beneath.

The Fuller Memorandum (2010)

Adams fancies himself as a big swinging dick in risk analytics: Leave out the “big” and “swinging” and he’s right.

Halting State (2007)

Liz isn’t simply not going by the book, she’s just about throwing it in the shredder.

Halting State (2007)

I’m beyond introspective self-loathing by now—you lose it fast in this line of work.

The Atrocity Archives (2004)

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

Accelerando (2005)

Some of the worst crimes against humanity are committed by architecture students.

The Jennifer Morgue (2006)

Mo used to be a troubleshooter: whenever the organization had a spot of trouble she shot it until it stopped twitching.

The Delirium Brief (2017)

The trouble is, you can ignore history—but history won’t necessarily ignore you.

The Fuller Memorandum (2010)

Any sufficiently advanced lingerie is indistinguishable from a lethal weapon.

The Apocalypse Codex (2012)

Do you want me to strangle him now, or wait till he’s finished annoying you?

The Atrocity Archives (2004)

Mhari consults her conscience and takes another step into the twilight borderland between bending the rules and breaking them.

The Delirium Brief (2017)

The truth hurts, but not as much as the consequences of willful ignorance.

Iron Sunrise (2004)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Charles Stross (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.