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Things Quotes by Neal Stephenson
- The full cosmos consists of the physical stuff and consciousness. Take away consciousness and it's only dust; add consciousness and you get things, ideas, and…
- Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment.
- 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 -…
- Like any place in Reality, the Street is subject to development. Developers can build their own small streets feeding off of the main one. They…
- Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window.
- 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…
- There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music movies microcode (software) high-speed pizza delivery
- They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.
- See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places,
- 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…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle