"--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."
— Charles Stross (Saturn's Children)

"Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children."
— Charles Stross (Toast)

"MINUS TEN POINTS FOR PUBLIC NUDITY."
— Charles Stross

"Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!"
— Charles Stross

"We are Bay Aryans from Berkeley: prepare to be reengineered in an attractive range of color schemes for your safety and comfort!"
— Charles Stross (On Her Majesty's Occult Service)

""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 (Saturn's Children)

"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

""You've just spent an entire prehistoric human lifetime as an ice ghoul and people are needling you for having too many arms?" I shake my head. "I just assume you have a good reason.""
— Charles Stross

"Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again."
— Charles Stross (The Atrocity Archives)

"Jest upalny letni wtorek. Stoi na placu przed dworcem Centraal, ma włączone gałki oczne. Kanał skrzy się słońcem, wokół śmigają skutery i rowerzyści-kamikadze, ze wszystkich stron trajkocą turyści. Plac pachnie wodą, ziemią, rozgrzanym metalem i spalinami z zimnych katalizatorów, jak pierdnięciem; w tle podzwaniają tramwaje, nad głową fruwają ptaki. "
— Charles Stross (Accelerando)