Eschaton Quotes
Along the way she'd acquired a powerful conviction that history was a series of accidents-God was either absent or playing a very elaborate practical joke (the Eschaton didn't count, having explicitly denied that it was a deity)-and that the seeds of evil usually germinated in the footprints of people who knew how everybody else ought to behave and felt the need to tell them so.
Charles Stross
I Critic am. Critics follow Festival for many lifetimes. We come to Criticize. First want I to know, am I Criticizing sapients? Or is just puppet show on cave wall of reality? Zombies or zimboes? Shadows of mind? Amusements for Eschaton?
A shiver ran up and down Burya's spine. "I think I'm sapient,” he said cautiously. "Of course, I'd say that even if I wasn't, wouldn't I? Your question is unanswerable. So why ask it?”
Sister Seventh leaned forward. "None of your people ask anything,” she hissed. "Food, yes. Guns, yes. Wisdom? No. Am beginning think you not aware of selves, ask nothing.
Charles Stross
