Charles Stross Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

• I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible with the kind of religion that posits a Creator. To my way of thinking, an omnipotent being who sets up a universe in which thinking beings proliferate, grow old, and die (usually in agony, alone, and in fear) is a cosmic sadist.

  Charles Stross

  Thinking, Ethical Standards, Agony

  Charles Stross (2010). “The Fuller Memorandum”, p.113, Penguin

• Well then. Will the naysayers please leave the universe?

  Charles Stross

  Naysayers, Please, Wells

  Charles Stross (2005). “Accelerando”, p.230, Penguin

• Personally, I avoid deus ex machina like the plague - if you have to use one, it means you failed to set up the universe and the plot properly. It's like a whodunnit where there's no actual way for the reader to identify the perpetrator before the climactic reveal: there's no sense of closure for the reader.

  Charles Stross

  Mean, Use, Way

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