“what he’s really thinking is: why did I waste all those years in academia when I could have been doing great shit… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I actually don't think that there is a connection between the survival instinct and a hunger for immortality. — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“He divides his time between thinking about sex and thinking about mathematics.” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
We see everything from the narrator's point of view, so exposition about the world is limited to what impinges directly on him… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I think that this vein is close to being mined out already, but I'll say that my knowledge of and talent for… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
It is easy to look at these waves, accomplishing so little and to think that no matter what efforts we put forth… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Most of the brain's work is done while the brain's owner is ostensibly thinking about something else, so sometimes you have to… — 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
Even the best of us have certain psychological mechanisms that can suddenly kick in and turn us into monsters. That to me… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Hostility towards Microsoft is not difficult to find on the Net, and it blends two strains: resentful people who feel Microsoft is… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Most of my colleagues go on backpacking trips when they have to do some thinking. I go to a good hardware store… — 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
