# Quote — Charles Stross, Rule 34

> Anwar is as bent as a three-euro note: just bright enough to think he’s smarter than everyone around him, just stupid enough not to realize that they’ve got his number. He’s a walking poster-boy for the Dunning-Kruger Effect: If he says he’s going straight, it probably means one of his idiot friends told him shoplifting is legal.

- Author: [Charles Stross](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross.md)
- Book: [Rule 34](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/rule-34.md)
- Page: 215
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Stross#Rule_34_(2011)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/rule-34/anwar-is-as-bent

## More from this book

> Policing is one of those jobs that will always revolve around a meatspace hub, if only because you can’t build a cellblock in cyberspace.

p. 116 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/rule-34/policing-is-one.md)

> Some say the Internet is for porn; but you know that in truth the Internet is for spam. As communication technologies got cheaper, the cost of grabbing a megaphone and jamming it up against the aching ear-drums of an advertising-jaded public collapsed: Meanwhile, the content-is-king mantra of the monetization mavens gridlocked the new media in an advertising-supported business model. The great and the good of the Academy have been fighting a losing battle against the Anglo-Saxon hucksterization model for the past thirty years: But the sad truth is that the battle’s lost. The tide of war was turned in Beijing and New Delhi, when the rapidly industrializing new superpowers climbed on the MAKE MONEY FAST band-wagon and gave free rein to the free market, red in tooth and claw—just as long as the sharp bits were directed outwards. And today the entire world is still drowning in a sea of attention-grabbing unregulated unethical untruthful spamvertising.

p. 154 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/rule-34/some-say-the.md)

> Little white lies shining like baby teeth in a shallow grave.

p. 143 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/rule-34/little-white-lies.md)