Paul > Paul's Quotes

“Apprehend. Be humble in the face of the universe. Do good. Eleven words. Three rules.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Long Utopia

“Yippee. I haven’t had this much fun since I was in the Transhuman Police, mixing it up with superpowered neo-Nazis, and by fun I mean fuck me I demand a pay rise and a nice quiet office job—”
― Charles Stross, The Labyrinth Index

“History is written by the survivors, a narrative they compose to explain events to themselves. So the historicity of journals like this one—their accuracy and authenticity—is a function of the reliability of the narrator”
― Charles Stross, The Labyrinth Index

“the sacrificial repository at Arlington”
― Charles Stross, The Labyrinth Index

“His Infernal Majesty leans towards me confidingly. “You have imposter syndrome,” He says, “but paradoxically, that’s often a sign of competence. Only people who understand their work well enough to be intimidated by it can be terrified by their own ignorance. It’s the opposite of Dunning-Kruger syndrome, where the miserably incompetent think they’re on top of the job because they don’t understand it.”
― Charles Stross, The Labyrinth Index

“American cops are so heavily militarized these days that the only way I can tell the difference between them and the army is the color of their body armor—that, and the army is less trigger-happy.”
― Charles Stross, The Labyrinth Index