364 Quotes by Charles Stross

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.

Can I remember "I remember lots," I say. How much of what I remember is true is another matter.

We were created for a world where the rule of law did not extend to our kind, and our earliest templates were trained and triaged, so that only the obedient survived. Just imagining the act of disobeying an instruction from one of our Creators can bring about physically disturbing symptoms – Then they all died. And the society we built for ourselves in the twilit afterlife of their world, using the rules they laid out for us, is diseased.

There is good management and bad management: good management is like air – you don’t know it’s there until it’s gone away.

Who knows? It’s a long shot, but it just might work.

Nobody taught me how to say no when a beautiful naked woman begs me to take my clothes off.

That looks nasty, I hope you’ve got a change of clothes back at the office. I guess now we know why real superheroes wear artificial fibers.

And convincing someone that an outrageous ritual has caused them to forget the constitutional bedrock of their society is hard.

If I wanted to be in movies, I’d have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big hint about what I prefer to do!