From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2008-03-07:
"Billington's fiendish plot is very well thought out, and the box he's slotted me into is dismayingly effective: I'm simply not a cold-blooded killer. If Angleton had sent Alan Barnes instead, he'd know how to raise seven shades of shit, but I'm not a graduate of the Hereford advanced college of mayhem and murder. Bluntly, I'm what used to be called a boffin, and these days is known as a geek, and while I know all the POSIX options to the kill(1) command, doing with my bare hands is beyond my sphere of competence." -- Charlie Stross, from his novel The Jennifer Morgue.
(submitted to the mailing list by Jeffrey L. Copeland)
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