Best Neal Stephenson Quotations
- The best way to know someone is to have a conversation with them. Best
- ... you should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake' ... Believe
- So, you're worried that a pink dragon will fly over the concent and fart nerve gas on us? Concent
- Ares always reemerges from the chaos. It will never go away. Athenian civilization defends itself from the forces of Ares with metis, or technology. Technology… Alchemist
- See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places, Catch
- This made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of tiresome burdens such… Burden
- Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise. Barrier
- It’s, like, one of them drug dealer boats,” Vic says, looking through his magic sight. “Five guys on it. Headed our way.” He fires another… Another Round
- Leibniz is at the disadvantage of not having seen it. Or perhaps we should count this as an advantage, for anyone who sees it is… Advantage
- The sight of the bare katana inspires everyone to a practically Nipponese level of politeness Bare
- Wait a minute, Juanita. Make up your mind. This Snow Crash thing—is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?" Juanita shrugs. "What's the difference? Crash
- The GPS unit became almost equally obstreperous, though, over Richard’s unauthorized route change, until they finally passed over some invisible cybernetic watershed between two possible… All
- How could your cover be blown in Canada? Why even bother going dark there? How could you tell? Blown
- Humans needed water or they would die, but dirty water killed as surely as thirst. You had to boil it before you drank it. This… Along
- It was, of course, nothing more than sexism, the especially virulent type espoused by male techies who sincerely believe that they are too smart to… Believe
- Clearly Mr. Drkh has had a long career of being the weirdest person in any given room, but he's about to go down in flames. Any
- They went inside. The young ones shuffled to a stop as their ironic sensibilities, which served them in lieu of souls, were jammed by a… Inside
- We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your head that you keep humming… All
- This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination. Drawn
- When I read a novel that I really like, I feel as if I am in direct, personal communication with the author. I feel as… Author
- Most of the brain's work is done while the brain's owner is ostensibly thinking about something else, so sometimes you have to deliberately find something… Brain
- Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit. Decrepit
- Well, all information looks like noise until you break the code. All
- Of course, the underlying structure of everything in England is posh. There is no in between with these people. You have to walk a mile… Been
- And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all. All
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