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.

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

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