Frases célebres de Charles Stross
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Charles Stross: Frases en inglés
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Annihilation Score (2015), Chapter 11, “Battle Without Honor or Humanity” (p. 197)
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Annihilation Score (2015), Chapter 10, “Great Pay and Benefits! Apply Here!” (p. 184)
“Unfortunately his IQ seems to be off the scale, in the wrong direction.”
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Annihilation Score (2015), Chapter 10, “Great Pay and Benefits! Apply Here!” (p. 182)
“If pauses can be pregnant, this one’s on the run from a fertility clinic.”
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Annihilation Score (2015), Chapter 5, “The Office” (p. 89)
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Annihilation Score (2015), Chapter 5, “The Office” (p. 77)
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Annihilation Score (2015), Chapter 4, “Briefings” (p. 63)
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Rhesus Chart (2014), Chapter 12, “Green Lime” (p. 240)
“Having a policy based on works of fiction is worse than having no policy at all.”
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Rhesus Chart (2014), Chapter 12, “Green Lime” (p. 229)
“But has it occurred to you that there might be a reason for that?”
“I can think of several.” I cross my legs. “Mostly ranging from the inane to the criminally irresponsible.”
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Rhesus Chart (2014), Chapter 11, “Boardrooms and Brokers” (p. 210)
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Rhesus Chart (2014), Chapter 11, “Boardrooms and Brokers” (p. 204)
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Rhesus Chart (2014), Chapter 11, “Boardrooms and Brokers” (p. 203)
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Rhesus Chart (2014), Chapter 9, “Committee Processes” (p. 159)
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Rhesus Chart (2014), Chapter 3, “KGB.2.YA” (p. 54)
“One of the great besetting problems of the modern age is what to do with too much information.”
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Rhesus Chart (2014), Chapter 2, “Meet the Scrum” (p. 35)
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Rhesus Chart (2014), Chapter 1, “Prologue: One Month Ago” (p. 2; ellipsis represents elision of one sentence of description)
“I am at a loss for words to describe my lack of eagerness to go there.”
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Apocalypse Codex (2012), Chapter 15, “Black Bag Job” (p. 321)
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Apocalypse Codex (2012), Chapter 14, “Appointment in Samarra” (p. 291)
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Apocalypse Codex (2012), Chapter 14, “Appointment in Samarra” (p. 283)
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Apocalypse Codex (2012), Chapter 13, “Fimbulwinter” (pp. 258-259)
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Apocalypse Codex (2012), Chapter 13, “Fimbulwinter” (p. 258)
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Apocalypse Codex (2012), Chapter 12, “With a Bible and a Gun” (p. 240)
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Apocalypse Codex (2012), Chapter 12, “With a Bible and a Gun” (p. 240)
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Apocalypse Codex (2012), Chapter 12, “With a Bible and a Gun” (p. 225)
“But they’re Christians. If you want to get them to raise something from the dungeon dimensions, of course you tell them it’s Jesus Christ. I mean, who else would they enthusiastically dive into necromantic demonology on behalf of?”
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Apocalypse Codex (2012), Chapter 11, “The Apocalypse Codex” (p. 209)
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Apocalypse Codex (2012), Chapter 10, “Things To Do in Denver When You’re Doomed” (pp. 182-183)
“I’m thinking on the fly, here.”
Although now that I’m in middle management I think I’m supposed to call it “refactoring the strategic value proposition in real time with agile implementation,” or, if I’m being honest, “making it up as I go along.”
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Apocalypse Codex (2012), Chapter 9, “Speaking in Tongues” (p. 180)
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Apocalypse Codex (2012), Chapter 9, “Speaking in Tongues” (p. 159)
“I’m stranded in limbo, otherwise known as downtown Denver.”
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Apocalypse Codex (2012), Chapter 8, “Omega Course” (p. 141)
“Never attribute to incompetence that which can be adequately explained by jet lag.”
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Apocalypse Codex (2012), Chapter 7, “Communion” (p. 134)
“That’s not…untrue. But money corrupts. Almost invariably, powers that arise around money are corrupted by it. He might have started out as a true believer, but money has a way of taking over. A church is a business, after all, and those employees or executives who are good at raising money are promoted by their fellows.”
Fuente: The Laundry Files, The Apocalypse Codex (2012), Chapter 7, “Communion” (p. 126)
