It is commonly the case with technologies that you can get the best insight about how they work by watching them fail. — 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
In trying to understand the Linux phenomenon, then, we have to look not at a single innovator but to a sort of… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The imperative to develop new technologies and implement them on a heroic scale no longer seems like the childish preoccupation of a… — 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 basic premise of Eutropianism is that technology has made us post-human. That Homo sapiens plus technology is effectively a whole new… — 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
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
“Yong is the outer manifestation of something. Ti is the underlying essence. Technology is a yong associated with a particular ti that… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“It was possible to look at actual smartphones and tablets and laptops that had been manufactured on Old Earth. They did not… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“But the basic premise of Eutropianism is that technology has made us post-human. That Homo sapiens plus technology is effectively a whole… — 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
If you are a professional writer - i.e., if someone else is getting paid to worry about how your words are formatted… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“With any job, there’s some creative work that needs to be done—new technology to be developed or whatever. Everything else—ninety-nine percent of… — 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
![“Yong is the outer manifestation of something. Ti is the underlying essence. Technology is a yong associated with a particular ti that is ... Western, and completely alien to us [the Chinese]. For centuries, since the time of the Opium Wars, we have struggled to absorb the yong of technology…” quote by Neal Stephenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e5d/neal-stephenson-362_chinese_yong-is-the-outer-manifestation-of-somet_922937.jpg)
