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Quotes from Halting State — Charles Stross

born 1964 England

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Never trust a man who thinks his religion gives him all the answers.

Halting State (2007)

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)

“You have an evil mind!”
“And this is a bad thing how, exactly?”

Halting State (2007)

It’s a thing of beauty, the ability to spin the cloth of reality, and you’re a sucker for it: Isn’t story-telling what being human is all about?

Halting State (2007)

There used to be an old joke in role-playing circles—it isn’t funny these days—that there were only a thousand real people in the UK—everybody else was a non-player character. Now it’s pretty much the reverse.

Halting State (2007)

You know there’s no advantage to be gained by murdering idiots—it doesn’t teach the idiot anything and it might give onlookers the idea that you take them seriously.

Halting State (2007)

I’m not going to make the mistake of appealing to your patriotism: It’s a deflating currency these days, and an ambiguous one. But I would like to put a word in for ethics, fair play, and enlightened self-interest.

Halting State (2007)

Attribution

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