This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination. — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“It gave them something to do and it took their mind off the way Yuxia was driving, which, had they paid attention… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Wait a minute, Juanita. Make up your mind. This Snow Crash thing—is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?" Juanita shrugs.… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The mind knows...that there is an action principle that governs how the world evolves from one moment to the next - that… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“He is full of adrenaline, his nerves are shot, and his mind is cluttered up with free-floating anxiety-floating around on an ocean… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“It had been a hell of a long time since he had been reduced to hiding behind a tree, and he did… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I think visual literacy and media literacy is not without value, but I think plain old-fashioned text literacy and mathematical literacy are… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
In the case of Anathem, most of the research had to do with philosophy and metaphysics. Reading this sort of thing has… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
If the item of stolen property had been anything other than a book, it would have been confiscated. But a book is… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The GPS unit became almost equally obstreperous, though, over Richard’s unauthorized route change, until they finally passed over some invisible cybernetic watershed… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Those who think through possible outcomes with discipline, forge connections, in so doing, to other cosmi in which those outcomes are more… — 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
