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People Quotes by Neal Stephenson
- 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…
- Wired people should know something about wires.
- Hostility towards Microsoft is not difficult to find on the Net, and it blends two strains: resentful people who feel Microsoft is too powerful, and…
- The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle…
- ..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…
- Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window.
- ...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…
- 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…
- 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…
- All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or something, and we'll latch onto anything that'll fill that…
- Which path do you intend to take, Nell?' said the Constable, sounding very interested. 'Conformity or rebellion?' Neither one. Both ways are simple-minded - they…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
More People Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle