Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The trouble is, if you go too far towards being polite, the label that applies is doormat.
Charles Stross
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Charles Stross
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 18
Pharmacist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Charlie Stross
Trouble
Doormat
Applies
Label
Polite
Labels
Towards
More quotes by Charles Stross
I have not watched the TV show. I do not generally watch TV sci-fi drama shows. They make me itch.
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.
Charles Stross
Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything.
Charles Stross
I suspect losing paper maps but gaining GPS and online maps is a similar step function: maps still exist, but they're vastly more useful, not to say permanently up to date, in their new form. Again, I won't be shedding any tears, but I'll keep a paper road atlas in the back of my car for another few years, I think, Just In Case.
Charles Stross
[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]
Charles Stross
The problem with ebook filesharing is simply one of scale. But I think the piracy problem is massively over-rated.
Charles Stross
I've reached an age at which I'd rather pay more for something that just works than roll up my sleeves, reach for a spanner, and make it work. Time is money, and the older we get the less of it we've got left.
Charles Stross
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.
Charles Stross
Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.
Charles Stross
Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.
Charles Stross
Biggest influence: my mother.
Charles Stross
You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else.
Charles Stross
I was an early adopter: have been on the internet continuously since late 1989, barring a six-month loss of access in the early 90s.
Charles Stross
The chip that functions abnormally will be desoldered, as they say.
Charles Stross
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.
Charles Stross
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.)
Charles Stross
No two books come out the same way. Some I write by the seat of my pants others are planned in minute detail.
Charles Stross
My favourite movie is: Dr Strangelove. (I haven't seen any films released in the past 2-5 years, I'm afraid: I don't do TV/cinema).
Charles Stross
A dark-skinned human with four arms walks toward me across the floor of the club, clad only in a belt strung with human skulls.
Charles Stross
I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.
Charles Stross