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Old Quotes by Neal Stephenson
- 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…
- Crappy old OSes have value in the basically negative sense that changing to new ones makes us wish we'd never been born.
- Most of my colleagues go on backpacking trips when they have to do some thinking. I go to a good hardware store and head for…
- 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…
- An old market had stood there until I'd been about six years old, when the authorities had renamed it the Olde Market, destroyed it, and…
- What are letters?” “Kinda like mediaglyphics except they’re all black, and they’re tiny, they don’t move, they’re old and boring and really hard to read.…
- 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…
- Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.
- Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers…
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