Charles Stross Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.”
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“Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends without charging: we called them "librarians".”
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“We are, after all, ***** economicus.”
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“The programmers have another saying: 'The question of whether a machine can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.'”
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“The chip that functions abnormally will be desoldered, as they say.”
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“Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.”
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“All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night.”
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“A religious college in Cairo is considering issues of nanotechnology: If replicators are used to prepare a copy of a strip of bacon, right down to the molecular level, but without it ever being part of a pig, how is it to be treated?”
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“The real world is devoid of narratives, after all. Narratives are just a thing that our brains do with facts in order to draw a line around the incomprehensible largeness of reality and wrestle it into something learnable and manipulable. Existence is devoid of plot, theme, and most of all moral.”
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“[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]”
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“Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.”
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“I'm wearing black leggings and a loose top festooned with a Menger sponge of empty pockets stitched out of smaller pockets and smaller still, almost down to the limits of visibility woven in freefall by hordes of tiny otaku spiders, I'm told, their genes programmed by an obsessive-compulsive sartorial topologist.”
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“Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error. (Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.)”
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“Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.”
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“One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time.”
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“To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?”
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“Christmas: the one time of year when you can’t avoid the nuts in your family muesli.”
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“Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown.”
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“Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.”
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“We are Bay Aryans from Berkeley: prepare to be reengineered in an attractive range of color schemes for your safety and comfort!”
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“--but I find her personality annoying. It's like being molested by a sleeping bag that speaks in Comic Sans with little love-hearts over the i's.”
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“Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its presence until it's gone, and then you're sorry.”
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“I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the kind of religion that posits a Creator. To my way of thinking, an omnipotent being who sets up a universe in which thinking beings proliferate, grow old, and die (usually in agony, alone, and in fear) is a cosmic sadist.”
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“Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?"”
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“I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos – in which my existence was a random roll of the dice and I was destined to die and rot and then be gone forever – was infinitely more comforting than the truth. Because the truth is that my God is coming back. When he arrives I’ll be waiting for him with a shotgun. And I’m keeping the last shell for myself.”
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“Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.”
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“Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint. And that's just scratching the surface...”
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