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Źródło: Iron Sunrise (2004), Chapter 4, “Magical Mystery Tour” (p. 67)

Źródło: Glasshouse (2006), Chapter 15, “Recovery” (p. 255)

Źródło: Rule 34 (2011), Chapter 29, “Liz: Project ATHENA” (p. 305)

Źródło: Rule 34 (2011), Chapter 31, “Dominoes Fall” (p. 322)

Źródło: Rule 34 (2011), Chapter 20, “Liz: Bereavement Counselling” (p. 226)

Źródło: Halting State (2007), Chapter 33, “Elaine: Gentlemen and Players” (p. 272)

Źródło: Halting State (2007), Chapter 32, “Sue: Civil Contingencies” (p. 263)

Źródło: Singularity Sky (2003), Chapter 13, “Jokers” (p. 274)

Źródło: Glasshouse (2006), Chapter 17, “Mission” (p. 288)

Źródło: Rule 34 (2011), Chapter 12, “Toymaker: Reality Excursion” (p. 143)

Źródło: Singularity Sky (2003), Chapter 6, “Telegram from the Dead” (p. 142)

Źródło: Singularity Sky (2003), Chapter 15, “Delivery Service” (p. 317)

Źródło: Singularity Sky (2003), Chapter 6, “Telegram from the Dead” (p. 131)

Źródło: Rule 34 (2011), Chapter 13, “Kemal: Spamcop” (pp. 154-155)

Źródło: Singularity Sky (2003), Chapter 3, “The Spacelike Horizon” (p. 60)

The Concrete Jungle (2004)
The Laundry Files

Źródło: Accelerando (2005), Chapter 2 (“Troubadour”), p. 54

Źródło: Singularity Sky (2003), Chapter 11, “Circus of Death” (p. 234)

Źródło: Rule 34 (2011), Chapter 13, “Kemal: Spamcop” (p. 155)

Źródło: Iron Sunrise (2004), Chapter 15, “Preparing for Ghosts and Dogs” (p. 251)

Źródło: Rule 34 (2011), Chapter 8, “Anwar: Diplomat” (p. 93)

Źródło: Singularity Sky (2003), Chapter 2, “Preparations for Departure” (p. 33)

Źródło: Accelerando (2005), Chapter 2 (“Troubadour”), p. 60

Źródło: Iron Sunrise (2004), Chapter 13, “Hold the Front Page” (p. 202)

Źródło: Glasshouse (2006), Chapter 7, “Bottom” (p. 107)

Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.
Overtime (2009)
The Laundry Files, The Annihilation Score (2015)

This is how the iron law of bureaucracy installs itself at the heart of an institution. Most of the activities of any bureaucracy are devoted not to the organization’s ostensible goals, but to ensuring that the organization survives: because if they aren’t, the bureaucracy has a life expectancy measured in days before some idiot decision maker decides that if it’s no use to them they can make political hay by destroying it. It’s no consolation that some time later someone will realize that an organization was needed to carry out the original organization’s task, so a replacement is created: you still lost your job and the task went undone. The only sure way forward is to build an agency that looks to its own survival before it looks to its mission statement. Just another example of evolution in action.
Źródło: The Laundry Files, The Annihilation Score (2015), Chapter 16, “Democracy in Action” (pp. 311-312)

“How indeed.”
Źródło: The Laundry Files, The Annihilation Score (2015), Chapter 14, “Infected” (p. 284)

Źródło: The Laundry Files, The Annihilation Score (2015), Chapter 14, “Infected” (p. 266)