It’s a thing of beauty, the ability to spin the cloth of reality, and you’re a sucker for it: Isn’t… — Charles Stross

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.

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.

“You have an evil mind!”

“And this is a bad thing how, exactly?”