“He divides his time between thinking about sex and thinking about mathematics.” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Topology is destiny,' he said, and put the drawers on. One leg at a time.” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“If the math works, why then you should be sure of yourself. That’s the whole point of math.” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Once you found the math in a thing, you knew everything about it, and you could manipulate it to your heart’s content… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“If you can't test it, it's not theorics -- it's metatheorics. A branch of philosophy. So, if you want to think of… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“It appeared that way, Lawrence, but this raised the question of was mathematics really true or was it just a game played… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“He went back to Iowa State, considered changing his major to mathematics, but didn’t. It was the consensus of all whom he… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“mathematics professor in Russia slugging it out with another mathematics professor in India, kilobyte for kilobyte, over some stupefyingly arcane detail in… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“If he would just work with pure ideas like a proper mathematician he could go as fast as thought. As it happens,… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“The basic problem for Lawrence was that he was lazy. He had figured out that everything was much simpler if, like Superman… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“I study dead languages for a living,” I said. “That’s why you hired me. Why should I be up to speed on your line… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share
“Other people - store clerks, burger flippers, software engineers, the whole vocabulary of meaningless jobs that make up Life in America - other people… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share
“It is what you don’t expect,” he’d said, “that most needs looking for.” “Do” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share
“...the insects here see you as a big slab of animated but not very well defended food. The ability to move, far from being… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share
“There was no way that these guys were going to let a bleeding, barefoot woman simply wander off alone into the streets. Two of… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share
“Space and Time! Two minor omissions that no one is likely to notice," grumbled Newton.” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share
See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places, — Neal Stephenson Copy Share
“Hey,” Shaftoe says, “if we surrender to you, you’ll kill us. Right?” “Yes.” “If you guys surrender to us, we won’t kill you. Promise.… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share
“My men think you are dead now, and won’t waste balls on you,” Jack said. “In fact I have let you live, but for… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share
“You’ve probably heard the expression that the Industry feeds off of biomass, like a whale straining krill from the ocean.” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share
“The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallowed subcategory. He’s got esprit up to here. Right now, he is preparing to carry out… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share
Interesting things happen along borders - transitions - not in the middle where everything is the same. — Neal Stephenson Copy Share
“and people could only make sense of complicated matters through stories. Likewise” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share
