364 Quotes by Charles Stross

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.

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.

We shouldn’t even be here, I think distantly as I raise my weapon and take aim, we’re management, not heroes.

We have chickens! And ostriches – they’re like a chicken, only bigger! One of my colleagues is working on a Tyrannosaur – that’s like a really huge chicken, with teeth – but for architectural reasons we can’t let it roam free just yet.

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

The icky part was knowing I was in the presence of a woman so crazy that she thought her highest calling was to incubate encapsulated alien teratomas until they came squirting out of her body and walked around on their own legs. I have heard of some bizarre vocations in my life, but seldom anything quite so disgusting.

The trouble is, if you go too far towards being polite, the label that applies is “doormat”.

Down in the park with a friend called Five.

Twelve percent of all the photographs ever taken in human history have been taken in the last twelve months. And 40 percent of them are on Facebook.