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The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1) QUOTES

The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1) QUOTES

1 " Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again. "

― Charles Stross , The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1)

2 " This has serveral consequences, starting with screwing over most cryptography algorithms--translation: all your bank account are belong to us-- "

― Charles Stross , The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1)

3 " There are good ways and bad ways to get my attention. Whacking on my ego with a crowbar will get my attention, sure, but it's not going to leave me well disposed to the messenger. "

― Charles Stross , The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1)

4 " Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now! "

― Charles Stross , The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1)

5 " That was what we call in the trade an Unscheduled Reality Excursion, usually abbreviated to ‘Oh fuck.’  "

― Charles Stross , The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1)

6 " The male ego is a curious thing. It’s about the size of a small continent but it’s extremely brittle. "

― Charles Stross , The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1)

7 " I spent six hours becoming one with a shrubbery last night. There were three cloudbursts and a rain of small and very confused frogs "

― Charles Stross , The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1)

8 " My computer terminal whistles at me: YOU HAVE MAIL. No shit, Sherlock, I always have mail. It's an existential thing: if I don't have mail it would mean that something is very wrong with the world "

― Charles Stross , The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1)

9 " They never tell you how heavy a corpse is in training school. "

― Charles Stross , The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1)

10 " programming is a job where Lovecraft meets tradecraft, all the time. "

― Charles Stross , The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1)

11 " For programming is a job where Lovecraft meets tradecraft, all the time. "

― Charles Stross , The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1)

12 " Because, you see, everything you know about the way this universe works is correct—except for the little problem that this isn’t the only universe we have to worry about. Information can leak between one universe and another. And in a vanishingly small number of the other universes there are things that listen, and talk back—see Al-Hazred, Nietzsche, Lovecraft, Poe, et cetera. The many-angled ones, as they say, live at the bottom of the Mandelbrot set, except when a suitable incantation in the platonic realm of mathematics—computerised or otherwise—draws them forth. (And you thought running that fractal screen-saver was good for your computer?) "

― Charles Stross , The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1)

13 " you young ones . . .” ‘Ask not what you can do for your country, but what your country has ever done for you? "

― Charles Stross , The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1)

14 " Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!” “It’s "

― Charles Stross , The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1)

15 " I try not to notice the exploded eyeballs or the ruptured tongue bursting through the blackened lips. This job is quite gross enough as it is without adding my own dry heaves to the mess. "

― Charles Stross , The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1)

16 " But, as Andy pointed out, if being a smart-arse was an offence, the Laundry would not exist in the first place. "

― Charles Stross , The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1)

17 " Just solving certain theorems makes waves in the Platonic over-space. Pump lots of power through a grid tuned carefully in accordance with the right parameters—which fall naturally out of the geometry curve I mentioned, which in turn falls easily out of the Turing theorem—and you can actually amplify these waves, until they rip honking great holes in spacetime and let congruent segments of otherwise-separate universes merge. You really don’t want to be standing at ground zero when that happens. "

― Charles Stross , The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1)

18 " the stacks keeps you on your toes. Besides which, there are rumours of ape-men living down here; I don’t know how the rumours got started, but this place is more than somewhat creepy when you’re on your own late at night. "

― Charles Stross , The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1)

19 " This document describes progress to date in establishing a defensive network capable of repelling wide-scale incursions by reconfiguring the national closed-circuit television surveillance network as a software-controlled look-to-kill multiheaded basilisk. To "

― Charles Stross , The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1)

20 " friend of mine who was turned down "

― Charles Stross , The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1)