# Halting State

- Author: [Charles Stross](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross.md)
- Quotes: 8
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/halting-state

## Quotes

> You know there’s no advantage to be gained by murdering idiots—it doesn’t teach the idiot anything and it might give onlookers the idea that you take them seriously.

p. 42 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/halting-state/you-know-theres.md)

> Liz isn’t simply not going by the book, she’s just about throwing it in the shredder.

p. 263 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/halting-state/liz-isnt-simply.md)

> Adams fancies himself as a big swinging dick in risk analytics: Leave out the “big” and “swinging” and he’s right.

p. 42 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/halting-state/adams-fancies-himself.md)

> I’m not going to make the mistake of appealing to your patriotism: It’s a deflating currency these days, and an ambiguous one. But I would like to put a word in for ethics, fair play, and enlightened self-interest.

p. 274 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/halting-state/im-not-going.md)

> “You have an evil mind!”
>
> “And this is a bad thing how, exactly?”

p. 235 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/halting-state/you-have-an-evil.md)

> There used to be an old joke in role-playing circles—it isn’t funny these days—that there were only a thousand real people in the UK—everybody else was a non-player character. Now it’s pretty much the reverse.

p. 272 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/halting-state/there-used-to.md)

> Never trust a man who thinks his religion gives him all the answers.

p. 275 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/halting-state/never-trust-a-man.md)

> It’s a thing of beauty, the ability to spin the cloth of reality, and you’re a sucker for it: Isn’t story-telling what being human is all about?

p. 96 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/halting-state/its-a-thing.md)