Charles Stross Quotes - Page 3

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• We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on.

  Charles Stross

  Skills, Novelists, Networking

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• Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity.

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  Smart, Matter, Singularity

  Charles Stross (2005). “Accelerando”, p.344, Penguin

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• We are, after all, homo economicus.

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  Charles Stross (2013). “Neptune's Brood”, p.77, Penguin

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• Personal pride is probably a bad guide to merit.

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  Pride, Merit, Guides

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 02, 2012.

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• If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.

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  Memories, Liberty, Might

  Charles Stross (2006). “Glasshouse”, p.174, Penguin

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• I don't do football. (Grew up in Leeds in the 1970s. Football there was indellibly associated with the National Front, i.e. violent fascist skinheads.)

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  Football, Violent, Grew Up

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• Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown.

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  Goth, Brown, Steampunk

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• People want to buy mp3s but can't? Piracy ensues. Then Apple strong-arms the music studios into the iTunes store and music piracy drops somewhat. The same, I believe, is also happening with ebooks.

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  Strong, Believe, Mp3

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• Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the first place.

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  Book, Writing, Finals

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• I'm an atheist .I was raised in British reform Judaism, which is not like American reform Judaism, much less any other strain of organised religion. So: no cults here.

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  Atheist, Reform, British

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• Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time.

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  Writing, Novel, Available

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• I do not click on random youtube videos.

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  Video, Youtube, Clicks

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• Experiments in digitizing and running neural wetware under emulation are well established; some radical libertarians claim that, as the technology matures, death with its draconian curtailment of property and voting rights will become the biggest civil rights issue of all.

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  Running, Technology, Rights

  Charles Stross (2010). “Accelerando”, p.49, Hachette UK

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• The Magician's Land is a triumphant climax to the best fantasy trilogy of the decade.

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  Land, Fantasy, Trilogies

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• The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These people manipulate the worm, customizing its payload to establish quisling dictatorships in its shadow, and the horrors these gauleiters invent in its service are far worse than the crude but direct tactics the original worm used.

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  Ideas, Yellow, People

  Charles Stross (2006). “Glasshouse”, p.164, Penguin

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• My gut feeling is that SF as we know it today is actually a heavily propagandized field that grew out of a specific set of cultural trends running in the USA and Europe between 1918 and 1950, during the post-imperial modernization period.

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  Running, Europe, Usa

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• Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard to keep the reader interested ...)

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  Writing, Fiction, Firsts

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• Starships are all work and no fun.

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  Fun

  Charles Stross (2013). “Neptune's Brood”, p.44, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Dark, Skulls, Four

  Charles Stross (2006). “Glasshouse”, p.9, Penguin

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• If I write too much of anything for too long, I burn out on it. So it helps to vary my output from year to year.

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  Writing, Years, Long

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 02, 2012.

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• I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life.

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  Self, Ecosystems, Space

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• I don't do flash fiction.

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  Fiction, Flash

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• What I've learned during my life is that the near future is 90% identical to the present - if you buy a new car today, it'll probably still be on the road in 2022.

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  Car, Today, Life Is

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 2, 2012.

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• I'd like to be proven wrong on the difficulty of handling the medical side-effects of long term exposure to deep space (both microgravity induced illnesses and radiation damage).

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  Space, Long, Radiation

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 02, 2012.

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• I suspect losing paper maps but gaining GPS and online maps is a similar step function: maps still exist, but they're vastly more useful, not to say permanently up to date, in their new form. Again, I won't be shedding any tears, but I'll keep a paper road atlas in the back of my car for another few years, I think, Just In Case.

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  Thinking, Gps, Years

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