Neal Stephenson Quotes

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• What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's deciding what to write.
• The full cosmos consists of the physical stuff and consciousness. Take away consciousness and it's only dust; add consciousness and you get things, ideas, and…
• It is the fate of operating systems to become free.
• Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment.
• One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there -…
• The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid…
• The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.
• I think visual literacy and media literacy is not without value, but I think plain old-fashioned text literacy and mathematical literacy are much more powerful…
• For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and besides, Jupiter's is…
• I just assume I'm not invisible. I assume I'm wearing fluorescent clothes, and there's a million-dollar bounty going to the first driver who manages to…
• Can't you see that everyone is buying station wagons?
• Wired people should know something about wires.
• Like any place in Reality, the Street is subject to development. Developers can build their own small streets feeding off of the main one. They…
• Am I a technocrat? Im just a guy who went down to the bookstore and bought a couple of textbooks on TCP/IP, which is the…
• Most Kabbalists were theorists who were interested only in pure meditation. But there were so-called 'practical Kabbalists' who tried to apply the power of the…
• I am on an expense account that would blow your mind.
• ...your Web browser is Ronald Reagan.
• Crappy old OSes have value in the basically negative sense that changing to new ones makes us wish we'd never been born.
• Hiro is a talented drifter. This is the kind of lifestyle that sounded romantic to him as recently as five years ago. But in the…
• "The suspect had experienced a ballistic interlude earlier in the evening," Miss Pao said, "regrettably not filmed, and relieved himself of excess velocity by means…

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