We are, after all, homo economicus.

- Charles Stross

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

- Charles Stross

More often than not, piracy is a symptom of an under-provisioned market.

- Charles Stross

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 des…

- Charles Stross

To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?

- 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 er…

- 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 calle…

- Charles Stross

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…

- Charles Stross

What I'm hoping for is something that goes much, much further than the conservative enablers of dog-eat-dog capitalism putting on a puppet show of cl…

- Charles Stross