Rule 34 Quotes

“Some say the Internet is for porn but you know that in truth the Internet is for spam.”
― Charles Stross, Rule 34

“The European Parliament responded by focusing on corporate governance. If corporations wanted to be legal citizens they could damned well shoulder the responsibilities of good citizenship as well as the benefits. Social as well as financial audits were the order of the day. Directives outlining standards for corporate citizenship were drafted and a lucrative niche for a new generation of management consultants emerged - those who could look at an organization and sound a warning if its structure rewarded pathological behaviour.”
― Charles Stross, Rule 34

“You take after your dad, a high-functioning sociopath with an incurable organic personality disorder. It’s one of the special-sauce variety, the kind with a known genetic cause. Your uncle Albert was something different, and worse: He was a man of faith.”
― Charles Stross, Rule 34

“You can collar criminals until the cows come home, and there’ll still be a never-ending supply of greedy fuckwits and chancers.”
― Charles Stross, Rule 34

“And then the Internet happened: and the panopticon society, cameras everywhere and augmented-reality tools gobbling up your peripheral vision and greedily indexing your every spoken word on duty.”
― Charles Stross, Rule 34