“Every true heart needed a pragmatic counterweight, and every cynic an idealist to lift his spirits.” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“This Snow Crash thing--is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?” Juanita shrugs. “What's the difference?” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Juanita believes that nothing is provably true or provably false in the Bible. Because if it's provably false, then the Bible is… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, if you want to live and breathe tomorrow, you have to dive into the black depths today, and that is a… — 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
“Had these people been living in, for example, the agricultural paradise of the Nile Delta, they might have been able to get… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or something, and we'll latch onto anything… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“a post-agrarian religion in which literal sacrifice had been replaced by symbolic; they opened their meals with a re-enactment in effigy of… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your head that… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Enoch...why are you here? Why has my spirit been incarnated into a physical bodi in this world generally? Or specifically, why am… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“I know. That's exactly the problem. Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do… — 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
“That, as far as she could tell, was the purpose of the religion she had been brought up in: it made people… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“And he can convert millions of people to his religion because it spreads like a fucking virus—people have no resistance to it… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“For every human being who is born into this universe is like a child who has been given a key to an… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Nell did not imagine that Constable Moore wanted to get into a detailed discussion of recent events, so she changed the subject.… — 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
