364 Quotes by Charles Stross

His remit will be to monitor the use of reality-modification weapons by both sides in the conflict and to assure the civilized worlds that the New Republic does not engage in gratuitous use of time travel as a weapon of mass destruction.

Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it’s being unoriginal.

Jupiter is a gibbous streaky horror riding across the zenith of the night black sky – it.

To put it bluntly, there are too many humans on this planet. Six-billion-plus primates. And we think too loudly. Our brains are neurocomputers, incredibly complex. The more observers there are, the more quantum weirdness is observed, and the more inconsistencies creep into our reality.

The one thing that does happen, every time, though, is that I never get to write a book until I’ve already been thinking about it for a period of months to years.

It’s a bit like cricket,” Pete agrees. “Weeks of endless boredom interspersed with the occasional moment of existential terror.

As Terry Pratchett observed, inside every eighty-year-old man is an eight-year-old wondering what the hell just happened to him; in.

There will be plenty of backup and support, but she’s still going to have to do heartbreaking things to people who probably don’t understand why the pale woman with the bone-white violin and blood dripping from her fingertips is coming for them.

The bastard knows I need to know what he knows and he knows I can’t say no.