Charles Stross

Writer

1964-10-18

Quotes by Charles Stross

• Although I am unconvinced that I desire life, I am not yet ready to embrace death.

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• Old Enochian running on neural wetware is not the fastest procedural language ever invented, and it's semantics make AppleScript look like a thing of elegance and beauty

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• The encapsulated bird your conspirators sent you to fetch. The sterilized male chicken with the Creator DNA sequences. The plot capon. Where is it?

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• It is a truth universally acknowledged that a sane employee in possession of his wits must be in want of a good manager.

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• Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.

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• Bob loses saving throw vs. shiny with a penalty of -5. Bob takes 2d8 damage to the credit card.

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• Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error. (Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.)

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• I am me and I have been Juliette and both of us have dreamed this dream repeatedly. And what makes this dream so unfortunate is that it is a true thing that happened to someone else ... who is both of us.

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• The rules of physics are, in some cases, suspiciously anthropic.

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• Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.

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• I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the kind of religion that posits a Creator. To my way of thinking, an omnipotent being who sets up a universe in which thinking beings proliferate, grow old, and die (usually in agony, alone, and in fear) is a cosmic sadist.

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• Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its presence until it's gone, and then you're sorry.

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• Although I am unconvinced that I desire life, I am not yet ready to embrace death.

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• The rules of physics are, in some cases, suspiciously anthropic.

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• Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.

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• Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its presence until it's gone, and then you're sorry.

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• Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error. (Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.)

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• Bob loses saving throw vs. shiny with a penalty of -5. Bob takes 2d8 damage to the credit card.

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• I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the kind of religion that posits a Creator. To my way of thinking, an omnipotent being who sets up a universe in which thinking beings proliferate, grow old, and die (usually in agony, alone, and in fear) is a cosmic sadist.

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• Old Enochian running on neural wetware is not the fastest procedural language ever invented, and it's semantics make AppleScript look like a thing of elegance and beauty

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