Empire Games Quotes

“Revolutions (she'd long since learned) ran on committees just like any other government, once you got past the screaming-and-shooting stage.”
― Charles Stross, Empire Games

“Technologies are not neutral: they come with attached agendas, with associated ways of thinking. Industrial revolutions are inherently political revolutions.”
― Charles Stross, Empire Games

“Sociopath" was one of the most useful concepts that Miriam's Memetic Engineering Task Force had imported from the United States: Erasmus's Propaganda Ministry had been working overtime to raise awareness of it as an Anti-Democratic Problem: "People who think People are Things.”
― Charles Stross, Empire Games

“The iron law of bureaucracy dictates that most of the people in any large organization will, after a time, be more preoccupied with preserving their own jobs than with fulfilling the mission statement of the agency.”
― Charles Stross, Empire Games

“I’m afraid we shall find evidence of treason: if not, look harder.”
― Charles Stross, Empire Games