{"author":"Charles Stross","author_id":"Charles+Stross","total_quotes":39,"quotes":[{"text":"Identity is theft, don’t trust anyone whose state vector hasn’t forked for more than a gigasecond, change is the only constant, et bloody cetera.","author":"Charles Stross","tags":["identity","identity-theft"],"id":2696,"author_id":"Charles+Stross"},{"text":"Your health is probably good if you have just been reinstantiated, and is likely to remain good for some time. Most diseases are curable, and in event of an incurable ailment or injury, a new body may be provided--for a fee. (In the event of your murder, you will be furnished with a new body at the expense of your killer.).","author":"Charles Stross","tags":["immortality"],"id":5774,"author_id":"Charles+Stross"},{"text":"There are good ways and bad ways to get my attention. Whacking on my ego with a crowbar will get my attention, sure, but it's not going to leave me well disposed to the messenger.","author":"Charles Stross","tags":["attention","delivery","ego","getting-attention","messenger"],"id":31089,"author_id":"Charles+Stross"},{"text":"The rules of physics are, in some cases, suspiciously anthropic.","author":"Charles Stross","tags":["amusing","physics","science","science-fiction"],"id":65441,"author_id":"Charles+Stross"},{"text":"...A vision from a universe where the Equal Rights Amendment--with its redefinition of personhood--is rejected by the house of deputies: A universe where to die is to become property and to be created outwith a gift of parental DNA is to be doomed to slavery.","author":"Charles Stross","tags":["civil-rights","ownership","personhood","property","slavery","upload"],"id":74684,"author_id":"Charles+Stross"},{"text":"Christmas: the one time of year when you can’t avoid the nuts in your family muesli.","author":"Charles Stross","tags":["kindlehighlight"],"id":104967,"author_id":"Charles+Stross"},{"text":"Science fiction was rocket-mad for about 40 years until aerospace hit a brick wall about 1970. I would not write off space colonisation or exploration completely, but we are profoundly ill adapted for going boldly into outer space.","author":"Charles Stross","tags":["science","exploration","brick "],"id":105364,"author_id":"Charles+Stross"},{"text":"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a sane employee in possession of his wits must be in want of a good manager.","author":"Charles Stross","tags":["humour","paraphrased","tribute"],"id":108888,"author_id":"Charles+Stross"},{"text":"First and most importantly, death is just the absence of life—oh, and for human beings, the absence of consciousness, too, but not just the absence of consciousness, the absence of the capacity for consciousness.","author":"Charles Stross","tags":["consciousness","death"],"id":145326,"author_id":"Charles+Stross"},{"text":"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.","author":"Charles Stross","tags":["humour","management","truisms","truth"],"id":160755,"author_id":"Charles+Stross"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":39,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}