364 Quotes by Charles Stross

Are you a psychiatrist?” “I don’t think so.” He shuffles forward, heading towards a side bay that, as I approach it, turns out to be a day room of some sort. “Then I’m not Napoleon Bonaparte!

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

It was one of ours originally, but no human being can sprint around a building with their helmet off and backpack missing in a fimbulwinter cold enough to freeze liquid oxygen.

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

Book depository is nothing new; there’ve been outlets selling books internationally via mail order for many decades – the only change is that it’s now easier to find and use such services.

It’s usually quite easy to shrug and write something else instead.

I argued for a Kindle but they pointed out that if it could be associated with me, then the information bleed – Amazon logging every page turn and annotation – was a potential security hazard. Not to mention the darker esoteric potential of spending too much time staring at a device controlled by a secretive billionaire in Seattle. The void stares also, and so on.

There are two types of people in this world,” Pete volunteers helpfully, “those who think there are only two types of people in the world, and everybody else.

American cops are so heavily militarized these days that the only way I can tell the difference between them and the army is the color of their body armor – that, and the army is less trigger-happy.