8 Charles Stross Quotes for You to Enjoy

Charles Stross

British Writer

Born: Oct 18, 1964

Condition Human People Science Work You

Related authors: Alan Moore Arthur Conan Doyle J. B. Priestley Jane Austen Lawrence Durrell Mary Wollstonecraft Norman Douglas Tom Hodgkinson

It turns out that the killer application for virtual reality is other human beings. Build a world that people want to inhabit, and the inhabitants will come. Charles Stross

Reality People World Will Build Other Virtual Virtual Reality Killer Out Come Human Want Human Beings Inhabit Inhabitants Turns Beings Application

The real challenge in this line of work is being able to weed the productive ones from the chaff, to decide which you're going to spend the next six to nine months turning into something that people will pay for. Charles Stross

I suspect political fiction is at its best precisely when it doesn't preach, but restricts itself to showing the reader a different way of life or thought, and merely makes it clear that this is an end-point or outcome for some kind of political creed. Charles Stross

Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances. Charles Stross

Circumstances Study Condition Human Fiction Human Condition Imagined

I tend to work on the principle that much humour relies on cognitive dissonance - on the foreground not matching the background, on the protagonist's response to a situation being inappropriate, and so on. Charles Stross

Work Situation Humour Background Response Tend Protagonist Principle Matching Foreground Being Inappropriate Much Cognitive

One of my earliest recollections is being woken up at some ungodly hour in the morning by my parents and sat in front of the fairly new black and white television, watching a grainy image of a man in a white suit climbing down a ladder. It was the first moon landing, and I became a sort of spaceman, as many kids were. Charles Stross

Morning Man Moon Black Black And White Parents First Ladder White Down Television Kids Some New Hour Fairly Sort Became Climbing Were Up Front Being Landing Many Sat Image Earliest Watching Suit

Generating ideas isn't some mystical talent that you have to be born with: it's a skill you can develop. Charles Stross

You Some Born Mystical Develop Generating Talent Ideas Skill

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