# Quote — Charles Stross, Glasshouse

> The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These people manipulate the worm, customizing its payload to establish quisling dictatorships in its shadow, and the horrors these gauleiters invent in its service are far worse than the crude but direct tactics the original worm used.

- Author: [Charles Stross](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross.md)
- Book: [Glasshouse](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/glasshouse.md)
- Page: 210
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Stross#Glasshouse_(2006)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/glasshouse/the-idea-of-curious

## More from this book

> In my experience, the best way to deal with such people is to politely agree with everything they say, then ignore them.

p. 30 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/glasshouse/in-my-experience.md)

> I’m trapped in a fun-house mirror reflection of a historical society where everyone was crazy by default, driven mad by irrational laws and meaningless customs.

p. 107 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/glasshouse/im-trapped-in-a-fun-house.md)

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

p. 224 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/glasshouse/if-i-forget.md)