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Men Quotes by Neal Stephenson
- 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.…
- When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.
- He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that the…
- 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…
- Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.
- Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of…
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