Best Neal Stephenson Quotes
- If the item of stolen property had been anything other than a book, it would have been confiscated. But a book is different—it is not… Been
- Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy... Because they were hypocrites, the Victorians were… All
- The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle… Aging
- Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was. Ability
- Let's set the existence-of-God issue aside for a later volume, and just stipulate that in some way, self-replicating organisms came into existence on this planet… Aside
- ..this is just like life must be for about 99 percent of the people in the world. You're in this place. There's other people all… Alive
- Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world.… Art
- Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that… Albeit
- To condense fact from the vapor of nuance. Condense
- Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window. All
- ...But they had, perversely, been living among people who were peering into the wrong end of the telescope, or something, and who had convinced themselves… Among
- Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing… Almost Always
- Two tires fly. Two Wail. A bamboo grove, all chopped down From it, warring songs. All
- Hiro watches the large, radioactive, spear-throwing killer drug lord ride his motorcycle into Chinatown. Which is the same as riding it into China, as far… Chasing
- Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor. Alien
- That's funny because if anyone actually did prove the existence of God we'd just tell him 'nice proof, Fraa Bly' and start believing in God. Anyone
- Gold is the corpse of value... Corpse
- Jad said, "The leakage was forcing choices, the making of which in no way improved matters." Okay. So we were, in effect, locked in a… Choices
- That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code. Code
- She looked at me like I was crazy. Most of my lovers do, and that's partly why they love me, and partly why they leave Crazy
- There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music movies microcode (software) high-speed pizza delivery Anyone
- When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins. Always Wins
- Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this… Actual
- Most countries are static, all they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers… Across
- I don't even want you to nod, that's how much you annoy me. Just freeze and shut up. Annoy
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