Glasshouse Quotes

“They need a social mechanism to make us require conformity of one other, and the best way to do that is to provide a mechanism to make us punish our own deviants.”
― Charles Stross, Glasshouse

“MINUS TEN POINTS FOR PUBLIC NUDITY.”
― Charles Stross, Glasshouse

“All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night.”
― Charles Stross, Glasshouse

“Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.”
― Charles Stross, Glasshouse

“You've just spent an entire prehistoric human lifetime as an ice ghoul and people are needling you for having too many arms?" I shake my head. "I just assume you have a good reason.”
― Charles Stross, Glasshouse

“Never bring a knife to a gun fight," I tell Mr. Crispy as I turn away from him. His right arm thinks about it for a moment, then falls off.”
― Charles Stross, Glasshouse