364 Quotes by Charles Stross


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    Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style is utterly unlike the spoken word.

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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.

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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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    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?

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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).

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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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