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Charles Stross

Geburtstag: 18. Oktober 1964
Andere Namen: צ'ארלס סטרוס

Charles David George Stross ist ein britischer Science-Fiction-, Horror- und Fantasy-Autor, der in Edinburgh lebt. Wikipedia

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„Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!“

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— Charles Stross, The Atrocity Archives

Quelle: The Atrocity Archives

„Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error. (Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.)“

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— Charles Stross, The Laundry Files

The Fuller Memorandum (2010)
The Laundry Files
Quelle: Overtime

„Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.“

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— Charles Stross, The Atrocity Archives

Quelle: The Atrocity Archives

„Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.“

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— Charles Stross

Quelle: Toast, and Other Stories

„but I find her personality annoying. It's like being molested by a sleeping bag that speaks in Comic Sans with little love-hearts over the i's.“

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— Charles Stross, Saturn's Children

Quelle: Saturn's Children

„Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown.“

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— Charles Stross

„Unfortunately it’s also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen—it’s invisible and you don’t notice its presence until it’s gone, and then you’re sorry.“

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— Charles Stross, buch The Fuller Memorandum

Quelle: The Laundry Files, The Fuller Memorandum (2010), Chapter 2, “Pointing the Finger” (p. 32)

„If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.“

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— Charles Stross, buch Glasshouse

Quelle: Glasshouse (2006), Chapter 13, “Climb” (p. 224)

„Truly the jaws of irony are agape!“

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— Charles Stross, buch Rule 34

Quelle: Rule 34 (2011), Chapter 13, “Kemal: Spamcop” (p. 157)

„And that’s when it turned intae the full-dress faeco-ventilatory intersection scene.“

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— Charles Stross, buch Iron Sunrise

Quelle: Iron Sunrise (2004), Chapter 2, “Out of the Frying Pan” (p. 45)

„Friendly fascism,” says Sadeq. “It matters not, whosoever is in charge. I could tell you tales from my parents, of growing up with a revolution. To never harbor self-doubt is poison for the soul, and these aliens want to inflict their certainties upon us.“

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— Charles Stross, buch Accelerando

Quelle: Accelerando (2005), Chapter 5 (“Router”), p. 201

„A religious college in Cairo is considering issues of nanotechnology: If replicators are used to prepare a copy of a strip of bacon, right down to the molecular level, but without it ever being part of a pig, how is it to be treated? (If the mind of one of the faithful is copied into a computing machine’s memory by mapping and simulating all its synapses, is the computer now a Moslem? If not, why not? If so, what are its rights and duties?)“

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— Charles Stross, buch Accelerando

Quelle: Accelerando (2005), Chapter 4 (“Halo”), pp. 146-147

„“You have an evil mind!”
“And this is a bad thing how, exactly?”“

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— Charles Stross, buch Halting State

Quelle: Halting State (2007), Chapter 28, “Jack: Sex Offender” (p. 235)

„Well, moving swiftly sideways into cognitive neuroscience…In the past twenty years we’ve made huge strides, using imaging tools, direct brain interfaces, and software simulations. We’ve pretty much disproved the existence of free will, at least as philosophers thought they understood it. A lot of our decision-making mechanics are subconscious; we only become aware of our choices once we’ve begun to act on them. And a whole lot of other things that were once thought to correlate with free will turn out also to be mechanical. If we use transcranial magnetic stimulation to disrupt the right temporoparietal junction, we can suppress subjects’ ability to make moral judgements; we can induce mystical religious experiences: We can suppress voluntary movements, and the patients will report that they didn’t move because they didn’t want to move. The TMPJ finding is deeply significant in the philosophy of law, by the way: It strongly supports the theory that we are not actually free moral agents who make decisions—such as whether or not to break the law—of our own free will.
“In a nutshell, then, what I’m getting at is that the project of law, ever since the Code of Hammurabi—the entire idea that we can maintain social order by obtaining voluntary adherence to a code of permissible behaviour, under threat of retribution—is fundamentally misguided.” His eyes are alight; you can see him in the Cartesian lecture-theatre of your mind, pacing door-to-door as he addresses his audience. “If people don’t have free will or criminal intent in any meaningful sense, then how can they be held responsible for their actions? And if the requirements of managing a complex society mean the number of laws have exploded until nobody can keep track of them without an expert system, how can people be expected to comply with them?“

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— Charles Stross, buch Rule 34

Quelle: Rule 34 (2011), Chapter 26, “Liz: It’s Complicated” (pp. 286-287)

„You’re like a priest who awakens one day and realizes that his god has been replaced by a cardboard cut-out, and he’s no longer able to ignore his own disbelief. And, like the priest, you’ve sacrificed all hope of a normal life on the altar of something you no longer believe in.“

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— Charles Stross, buch Rule 34

Quelle: Rule 34 (2011), Chapter 20, “Liz: Bereavement Counselling” (p. 229)

„Now, consciousness. That’s a fun thing, isn’t it? Product of an arms race between predators and prey. If you watch a cat creeping up on a mouse, you’ll be able to impute to the cat intentions that are most easily explained by the cat having a theory of mind concerning the mouse—an internal simulation of the mouse’s likely behavior when it notices the predator. Which way to run, for example. And the cat will use its theory of mind to optimize its attack strategy. Meanwhile, prey species that are complex enough to have a theory of mind are at a defensive advantage if they can anticipate a predator’s actions. Eventually this very mammalian arms race gave us a species of social ape that used its theory of mind to facilitate signaling—so the tribe could work collectively—and then reflexively, to simulate the individual’s own inner states. Put the two things together, signaling and introspective simulation, and you’ve got human-level consciousness, with language thrown in as a bonus—signaling that transmits information about internal states, not just crude signals such as ‘predator here’ or ‘food there.“

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— Charles Stross, buch Accelerando

Quelle: Accelerando (2005), Chapter 9 (“Survivor”), p. 397

„People didn’t always follow their best interests. Human beings were distressingly bad at risk analysis, lousy with hidden motivations and neuroses, anything but the clean rational actors that economists or diplomats wanted so desperately to believe in, and diplomats had to go by capabilities, not intentions.“

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— Charles Stross, buch Iron Sunrise

Quelle: Iron Sunrise (2004), Chapter 15, “Preparing for Ghosts and Dogs” (pp. 245-246)

„Time travel destabilizes history.
History is a child of contingency; so many events depend on critical misunderstandings or transient encounters that even the apocryphal butterfly’s wing is apt to stir up a storm in short order.“

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— Charles Stross, buch Singularity Sky

Quelle: Singularity Sky (2003), Chapter 8, “Confessions” (p. 177)

„Intelligence and infinite knowledge were not, it seemed, compatible with stable human existence.“

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— Charles Stross, buch Singularity Sky

Quelle: Singularity Sky (2003), Chapter 9, “Diplomatic Behavior” (p. 198)

„I’m not going to make the mistake of appealing to your patriotism: It’s a deflating currency these days, and an ambiguous one. But I would like to put a word in for ethics, fair play, and enlightened self-interest.“

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— Charles Stross, buch Halting State

Quelle: Halting State (2007), Chapter 33, “Elaine: Gentlemen and Players” (p. 274)

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