364 Quotes by Charles Stross

As far as my fellow students go, I’m one of the two dangerous rebels who turned up in office casual; the rest are so desperately sober that if you could bottle them you could put the Betty Ford Clinic out of business.

His Infernal Majesty leans towards me confidingly. “You have imposter syndrome,” He says, “but paradoxically, that’s often a sign of competence. Only people who understand their work well enough to be intimidated by it can be terrified by their own ignorance. It’s the opposite of Dunning-Kruger syndrome, where the miserably incompetent think they’re on top of the job because they don’t understand it.

I’m told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

Lockhart twitches. “I do not think Stockholm syndrome means quite what you think it means.” “What, the tendency of people – usually women – in unfamiliar societies to enculturate rapidly?” Lockhart inclines his head. “Point.

Someday I’ll write a textbook about personality profiling through possessions; but for now let’s just say this example is screaming “megalomaniac!” at me.

We’re going to need swords: lots of swords.

I am me and I have been Juliette and both of us have dreamed this dream repeatedly. And what makes this dream so unfortunate is that it is a true thing that happened to someone else... who is both of us.

I’m not planning a kickstarter game. And I’m not really a game designer.

Old Enochian running on neural wetware is not the fastest procedural language ever invented, and it’s semantics make AppleScript look like a thing of elegance and beauty.