Lorelei

“Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein

“Money. An instrument invented in ancient temple complexes, to keep track of debt: counters that acquired mobility and went a-walking, weaving webs of debt into vast and intricate meshes, enslaving and directing the labor of billions in service of the obligations created by its issuance. . . . Money: a shadow play projected on the walls of our minds by the dark sun of debt.”
― Charles Stross, Neptune's Brood

“I argued for a Kindle but they pointed out that if it could be associated with me, then the information bleed—Amazon logging every page turn and annotation—was a potential security hazard. Not to mention the darker esoteric potential of spending too much time staring at a device controlled by a secretive billionaire in Seattle. The void stares also, and so on.”
― Charles Stross, The Rhesus Chart

“Shallots are for babies; onions are for men; garlic is for heroes.”
― Anonymous