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  1. Charles Stross _ The Nightmare Stacks

    there's a point at which sufficient incompetence is malice.
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  2. Charles Stross _ The Labyrinth Index

    you can't learn from a fatal mistake.
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  3. Charles Stross _ The Labyrinth Index

    If an ancient horror invites you into its limousine at gunpoint-
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  4. Charles Stross _ The Labyrinth Index

    You have imposter syndrome," He says, "but paradoxically, that's often a sign of competence. Only people who understand their work well enough to be intimidated by it can be terrified by their own ignorance. It's the opposite of Dunning-Kruger syndrome, where the miserably incompetent think they're on top of the job because they don't understand it.
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  5. Charles Stross _ The Labyrinth Index

    One does not simply walk into Mordor these days; one drives a rented Cadillac Escalade the size of a county, shiny black and chrome, with a fake walnut dash, and enough black leather to clothe a battalion of Hell's Angels.
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  6. Charles Stross _ The Labyrinth Index

    Compliance with the mile-high stack of social expectations you grow up with as a girl turns out to be mandatory if you want to get ahead in business. Be blonde, be skinny, and don't forget to smile, bitch.
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  7. Charles Stross _ The Atrocity Archives

    I've suffered for what I know, so I'm not going to let you off the hook with a simple one-liner. I think you deserve a detailed explanation.
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  8. Charles Stross _ The Atrocity Archives

    The IT worker has to know in their bones that if they make a mistake, things can go horribly wrong. Tension and cynicism are constant companions, along with camaraderie and competitiveness. It's a lot like being a spy, or necromancer. You don't get out much, and when you do it's usually at night.
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  9. Charles Stross _ Dark State

    Rita stopped, suddenly acutely aware that while curiosity was her job, too much curiosity was reputedly felicidal:
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  10. Charles Stross _ Halting State

    But you're more at home with SQL than socialization: Innuendo wasn't a language they taught in CS lab.
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  11. Charles Stross _ Halting State

    You're a grown-up, these days. You don't wear a kamikaze pilot's rising sun headband and a tee-shirt that screams DEBUG THIS! and you don't spend your weekends competing in extreme programming slams at a windy campsite near Frankfurt, but it's generally difficult for you to use any machine that doesn't have at least one compiler installed: In fact, you had to stick Python on your phone before you even opened its address book because not being able to brainwash it left you feeling handicapped, like you were a passenger instead of a pilot. In another age you would have been a railway mechanic or a grease monkey crawling over the spark plugs of a DC-3. This is what you are, and the sad fact is, they can put the code monkey in a suit but they can't take the code out of the monkey.
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  12. Charles Stross _ The Labyrinth Index

    I wince at his casual disrespect as I follow Captain Perceval into the rear.
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