Famous Charles Stross Quotes

  • Christmas: the one time of year when you can’t avoid the nuts in your family muesli. – Charles Stross

    Christmas: the one time of year when you can’t avoid the nuts in your family muesli.– Charles Stross

  • Identity is theft, don’t trust anyone whose state vector hasn’t forked for more than a gigasecond, change is the only constant, et bloody cetera. – Charles Stross

    Identity is theft, don’t trust anyone whose state vector hasn’t forked for more than a gigasecond, change is the only constant, et bloody cetera.– Charles Stross

  • The five stages of bureaucratic grieving are: denial, anger, committee meetings, scapegoating, and cover-up. – Charles Stross

    The five stages of bureaucratic grieving are: denial, anger, committee meetings, scapegoating, and cover-up.– Charles Stross

  • Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness. – Charles Stross

    Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.– Charles Stross

  • Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown. – Charles Stross

    Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown.– Charles Stross

  • All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night. – Charles Stross

    All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night.– Charles Stross

  • Although I am unconvinced that I desire life, I am not yet ready to embrace death. – Charles Stross

    Although I am unconvinced that I desire life, I am not yet ready to embrace death.– Charles Stross

  • Bob loses saving throw vs. shiny with a penalty of -5. Bob takes 2d8 damage to the credit card. – Charles Stross

    Bob loses saving throw vs. shiny with a penalty of -5. Bob takes 2d8 damage to the credit card.– Charles Stross

  • The encapsulated bird your conspirators sent you to fetch. The sterilized male chicken with the Creator DNA sequences. The plot capon. Where is it? – Charles Stross

    The encapsulated bird your conspirators sent you to fetch. The sterilized male chicken with the Creator DNA sequences. The plot capon. Where is it?– Charles Stross