Источник: The Laundry Files, The Jennifer Morgue (2006), Chapter 3, “Tangled Up in Grue” (p. 53)
Стросс, Чарльз: Цитаты на английском языке
Источник: The Laundry Files, The Jennifer Morgue (2006), Chapter 2, “Going Down to Dunwich” (pp. 42-43)
“I’m only twenty-eight: I’m too young to die and too old to drive fast.”
Источник: The Laundry Files, The Jennifer Morgue (2006), Chapter 1, “Random Ramona” (p. 19)
“Some of the worst crimes against humanity are committed by architecture students.”
Источник: The Laundry Files, The Jennifer Morgue (2006), Chapter 1, “Random Ramona” (p. 18)
The Concrete Jungle (p. 305)
The Laundry Files, The Atrocity Archives (2004)
The Concrete Jungle (p. 275)
The Laundry Files, The Atrocity Archives (2004)
“Do you want me to strangle him now, or wait till he’s finished annoying you?”
Источник: The Laundry Files, The Atrocity Archives (2004), Chapter 7, “Bad Moon Rising” (p. 163)
Ken MacLeod in Introduction: Charlie’s Demons (p. xvi)
The Laundry Files, The Atrocity Archives (2004)
Источник: Rule 34 (2011), Chapter 1, “Liz: Red Pill, Blue Pill” (p. 16)
A dry chuckle: “I used to try to believe a different one before breakfast every day, you know, just in case Pascal’s wager was right—exploring the phase-space of all possible resurrections, you know? But I think at this point we can agree that Dawkins was right. Human consciousness is vulnerable to certain types of transmissible memetic virus, and religions that promise life beyond death are a particularly pernicious example because they exploit our natural aversion to halting states.”
Источник: Accelerando (2005), Chapter 9 (“Survivor”), pp. 396-397
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?
Источник: Accelerando (2005), Chapter 4 (“Halo”), pp. 146-147
“Sounds kind of long-term to me. Just how far ahead do you think?”
“Very long-term—at least twenty, thirty years. And you can forget governments for this market, Bob; if they can’t tax it, they won’t understand it.”
Источник: Accelerando (2005), Chapter 1 (“Lobsters”), pp. 14-15
“Talk you of tradition in middle of singularity.”
Sister Seventh twisted her head around to look out the windows at the foggy evening drizzle beyond. “Perplexity maximizes. Not understand singularity is discontinuity with all tradition? Revolution is necessary; deconstruct the old, ring in the new. Before, I questioned your sapience. Now, your sanity questionable; sapience not. Only sapient organism could exhibit superlative irrationality!”
Источник: Singularity Sky (2003), Chapter 6, “Telegram from the Dead” (p. 144)
Источник: Singularity Sky (2003), Chapter 6, “Telegram from the Dead” (p. 143)
Источник: The Laundry Files, The Annihilation Score (2015), Chapter 7, “Officer Friendly” (p. 113)
Источник: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 10, “Flight Plan” (p. 301)
Источник: Saturn's Children (2008), Chapter 17, “Interview with the Domina” (p. 304)
“The number one crime in any age: offending the money.”
Источник: Saturn's Children (2008), Chapter 16, “Long-Lost Sibs” (p. 268)
Источник: Saturn's Children (2008), Chapter 15, “”Revising My Opinions” (pp. 253-254)
Контексте: She’s silent for only a moment. “Ask not what it’s gotten you, kid. Ask what it’s saved you from.”
Источник: Saturn's Children (2008), Chapter 9, “Coin-Operated Boy” (p. 157)
“Apocalypses are easier slept through than experienced.”
Источник: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Epilogue, “Debrief” (p. 360)
Источник: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 11, “A Dead God Did It and Ran Away” (p. 347)
Источник: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 11, “A Dead God Did It and Ran Away” (p. 321)
“Anxiety loves company almost as much as misery.”
Источник: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 10, “Flight Plan” (p. 296)
Источник: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 8, “A Game of Vampires” (p. 244)
“Contingency time is useless wasted time, right until you need it.”
Источник: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 8, “A Game of Vampires” (p. 236)
Источник: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 6, “Leviathan’s Representative” (p. 193)
Источник: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 1, “God Save the King” (p. 40)
“A current generation smartphone is more powerful than a 1991 supercomputer.”
Источник: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 1, “God Save the King” (p. 37)