Charles Stross Quotes - Page 2

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• Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.

  Charles Stross

  Emotional, Self, Brilliant

  Charles Stross (2005). “Accelerando”, p.439, Penguin

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• I'm a fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberal, and I think fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberalism is an ideological stance that needs defending-if necessary, with a hob-nailed boot-kick to the bollocks of budding totalitarianism.

  Charles Stross

  Thinking, Needs, Boots

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• We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on.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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• I tend to think that immortal souls, invisible sky daddies, and Santa Claus all belong in the same basket. The disposition of that basket is left as an exercise for the reader.

  Charles Stross

  Exercise, Thinking, Sky

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• I wrote two million words of crap. Maybe I'm just a slow learner .

  Charles Stross

  Two, Crap, Learners

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• Most people think spies are afraid of guns, or KGB guards, or barbed wire, but in point of fact the most dangerous thing they face is paper. Papers carry secrets. Papers carry death warrants. Papers like this one, this folio with its blurry eighteen year old faked missile photographs and estimates of time/survivor curves and pervasive psychosis ratios, can give you nightmares, dragging you awake screaming in the middle of the night.

  Charles Stross

  Thinking, Gun, Night

  "Toast: And Other Rusted Futures". Book by Charles Stross, 2002.

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• A religious college in Cairo is considering issues of nanotechnology: If replicators are used to prepare a copy of a strip of bacon, right down to the molecular level, but without it ever being part of a pig, how is it to be treated?

  Charles Stross

  Religious, College, Issues

  Charles Stross (2005). “Accelerando”, p.156, 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.

  Charles Stross

  Running, Europe, Usa

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• Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything.

  Charles Stross

  Memories, Dictator, Amnesia

  Charles Stross (2006). “Glasshouse”, p.222, Penguin

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• The chip that functions abnormally will be desoldered, as they say.

  Charles Stross

  Chips, Function

  Charles Stross (2008). “Saturn's Children”, p.97, Penguin

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• I'm wearing black leggings and a loose top festooned with a Menger sponge of empty pockets stitched out of smaller pockets and smaller still, almost down to the limits of visibility woven in freefall by hordes of tiny otaku spiders, I'm told, their genes programmed by an obsessive-compulsive sartorial topologist.

  Charles Stross

  Wearing Black, Pockets, Obsessive Compulsive

  Charles Stross (2010). “Glasshouse”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• I believe modern SF needs to at least be aware of the singularity, if only so that it can dismiss it intelligently (or work around it). But I suspect the singularity is like faster-than-light travel for the IT generation. We may hope for it, and the rules don't forbid it, but we don't know how to do it yet (and it may not be possible).

  Charles Stross

  Believe, Light, Needs

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

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• Had enough of my poetry yet? That's why they pay me to fight demons instead.

  Charles Stross

  Fighting, Pay, Had Enough

  Charles Stross (2010). “Overtime: A Tor.Com Original”, p.15, Macmillan

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• Well then. Will the naysayers please leave the universe?

  Charles Stross

  Naysayers, Please, Wells

  Charles Stross (2005). “Accelerando”, p.230, Penguin

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• You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else.

  Charles Stross

  Mind, Needed, Knows

  Charles Stross (2006). “Glasshouse”, p.197, Penguin

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• I do not click on random youtube videos.

  Charles Stross

  Video, Youtube, Clicks

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• You'll still get guys with an array of badges to demonstrate their importance, but that just excludes people. I think fandom is more inclusive now.

  Charles Stross

  Thinking, People, Guy

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

  Charles Stross

  Memories, Liberty, Might

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

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• I'm trapped in a fun-house mirror reflection of a historical society where everyone was crazy by default, driven mad by irrational laws and meaningless customs.

  Charles Stross

  Fun, Crazy, Reflection

  Charles Stross (2006). “Glasshouse”, p.88, Penguin

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• More often than not, piracy is a symptom of an under-provisioned market.

  Charles Stross

  Symptoms, Piracy

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

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• Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?

  Charles Stross

  Running, Wall, Real

  Charles Stross (2005). “Accelerando”, p.388, Penguin

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

  Charles Stross

  Smart, Matter, Singularity

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

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• One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time.

  Charles Stross

  Religious, Hallucinations, Apes

  Charles Stross (2005). “Accelerando”, p.440, Penguin

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• [Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]

  Charles Stross

  Soul, Immortal, Software

  Charles Stross (2005). “Accelerando”, p.354, Penguin

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• Christmas: the one time of year when you can’t avoid the nuts in your family muesli.

  Charles Stross

  Years, Nuts, One Time

  Charles Stross (2010). “Overtime: A Tor.Com Original”, p.5, Macmillan

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