Equoid Quotes

“You wouldn’t believe the scope for mischief that the Beast of Redmond unintentionally builds into its Office software by letting it execute macros that have unlimited access to the hardware. I remember a particular post-prandial PowerPoint presentation where I was one of only two survivors (and the other wasn’t entirely human). However, this is the first time I’ve seen a Word document eat a man’s soul.”
― Charles Stross, Equoid

“(Americans think we Brits drink tea because we’re polite and genteel or something, whereas we really drink it because it’s a stimulant and it’s hot enough to sterilize cholera bacteria.)”
― Charles Stross, Equoid

“[...] Howard Phillips Lovecraft of Providence, Rhode Island, for cultivating a florid and overblown prose style that covered the entire spectrum from purple to ultraviolet and took sixteen volumes of interminable epistles to get to the point [...]”
― Charles Stross, Equoid

“Georgina darts forward, grabs my hand, and pumps it up and down while peering at my face as if she’s wondering why water isn’t gushing from my mouth.”
― Charles Stross, Equoid

“I remember a particular post-prandial PowerPoint presentation where I was one of only two survivors (and the other wasn't entirely human). However this is the first time I've seen a Word document eat a man's soul.”
― Charles Stross, Equoid

“There is cold comfort to be drawn from the sure and certain knowledge that the correct way to deal with the problem you’re facing in your job involves napalm, if”
― Charles Stross, Equoid

“Reasons for cancellation order: 1. Baby-eating aquatic faerie equines do not exist.”
― Charles Stross, Equoid

“There is cold comfort to be drawn from the sure and certain knowledge that the correct way to deal with the problem you’re facing in your job involves napalm, if you find yourself confronting a dragon and you aren’t even carrying a cigarette lighter.”
― Charles Stross, Equoid

“his beard is about thirty centimeters long, grizzled and salted and bifurcated. It has so much character that it’s probably being hunted by a posse of typographers.”
― Charles Stross, Equoid

“After a couple of years of death by bureaucratic snu-snu (too many committee meetings, too many tedious IT admin jobs)”
― Charles Stross, Equoid

“I shake my head. The EQUESTRIAN”
― Charles Stross, Equoid

“This is rural England, after all; please set your watch back thirty years ”
― Charles Stross, Equoid

“It has so much character that it’s probably being hunted by a posse of typographers.”
― Charles Stross, Equoid

“A young filly is leading her mater in. They’re both wearing green wellies, and there’s something so indefinably horsey about them that I have to pinch myself and remember that were-ponies do not exist outside the pages of a certain bestselling kid-lit series.”
― Charles Stross, Equoid