The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different. — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“. . . if money is a science, then it is a dark science, darker than alchemy. It split away from Natural… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“some manner of cause-and-effect relationship existed between the rise of scientific knowledge and the decline of magic.” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“If money is a science, then it is a dark science...it has gone on developing...by its own rules” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
It is exciting to discover electrons and figure out the equations that govern their movement; it is boring to use those principles… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“in the informal atmosphere of the Physics Department, appointments were viewed with a certain Heisenbergian skepticism, as though being in the right… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Even the word ‘science’ comes from an Indo-European root meaning ‘to cut’ or ‘to separate.’ The same root led to the word… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The story is everything, so it always begins with a story.And research is a kind of scaffolding built underneath the story as… — 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
What writers of fantasy, science fiction, and much historical fiction do for a living is different from what writers of so-called literary… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“There was no room for dust devils in the laws of physics, as least in the rigid form in which they were… — 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
“Dr. Turing of Cambridge says that the soul is an illusion and that all that defines us as human beings can be… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Ares always reemerges from the chaos. It will never go away. Athenian civilization defends itself from the forces of Ares with metis,… — 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
