# Quote — Charles Stross, Singularity Sky

> The sheer waste of human potential that was the New Republic’s raison d’être offended her sensibilities as badly as a public book-burning, or a massacre of innocents.

- Author: [Charles Stross](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross.md)
- Book: [Singularity Sky](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/singularity-sky.md)
- Page: 33
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Stross#Singularity_Sky_(2003)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/singularity-sky/the-sheer-waste

## More from this book

> Intelligence and infinite knowledge were not, it seemed, compatible with stable human existence.

p. 198 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/singularity-sky/intelligence-and-infinite.md)

> “Hello, Martin. What can I do for you?”
>
> “Got a problem.”
>
> “A big one?”
>
> “Female human-sized.”

p. 60 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/singularity-sky/hello-martin-what.md)

> “Will you stop calling me a child!”
>
> Rachel hunched around in her chair and stared at him. “But you are, you know. Even if you were sixty years old, you’d still be a child to me. As long as you expect someone or something else to take responsibility for you, you’re a child. You could fuck your way through every brothel in New Prague, and you’d still be an overgrown schoolboy.” She looked at him sadly. “What would you call a parent who never let their children grow up? That’s what we think of your government.”

p. 299 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-stross/singularity-sky/will-you-stop.md)