Charles Stross Quotes

We're a bit more upbeat and there's an openness about there being a future for us

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You'll still get guys with an array of badges to demonstrate their importance, but that just excludes people. I think fandom is more inclusive now.

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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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Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.

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

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

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

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