Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Bulgarian professor named John Vincent Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, who were building a machine that was intended to automate… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Virgil returned to the Operator’s Station and entered a single command. Its effect was to draw together the reins of the eighteen… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“One of my professors has interesting things to say about the similarity between the way organ pipes are controlled by keys and… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“The automatic waffle machine emitted a piercing electronic beep, signaling it wanted to be turned over. Seamus reached out and flipped it.… — 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
“Young, lavishly bearded tech entrepreneurs were trudging forlornly down the hallways, laden with computers, printers, high-end coffeemakers, and foosball tables. Like digital… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“The biggest machines, in those days, were already pushing the limits of what could be constructed on Arbre with reasonable amounts of… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Young, lavishly bearded tech entrepreneurs were trudging forlornly down the hallways, laden with computers, printers, high-end coffeemakers, and foosball tables. Like digital… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Grammar is like the walls and bumpers of a pinball machine. Rhetoric is like the flippers of a pinball machine. You control… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“And don't give me any sentimental nonsense about creativity. I believe that a Universal Turing Machine could show behaviors that we would… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Most of Csongor's time in T'Rain had been spent blundering about in a state of hapless newbie confusion. Only his long experience… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Get this one a copy of the Cryptonomicon. And a desk—as close to the coffee machine as possible. And why don’t you… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Unix is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture. It is our… — 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 don't like sewing machines. I don't understand how a needle with a thread going through the tip of it can interlock… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“It is what you don’t expect,” he’d said, “that most needs looking for.” “Do” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“...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 Image
“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 Image
“Space and Time! Two minor omissions that no one is likely to notice," grumbled Newton.” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Interesting things happen along borders - transitions - not in the middle where everything is the same. — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
