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Hey, Shaftoe says, if we surrender to you, you’ll kill us. Right? Yes. If you guys surrender to us, we won’t kill you. Promise. Scout’s honor. For us, living or dying is not the important thing, Goto Dengo says. Hey! Tell me something I didn’t fucking already know! Shaftoe says. Even winning battles isn’t important to you. Is it? Goto Dengo looks the other way, shamefaced. Haven’t you guys figured out yet that banzai charges DON’T FUCKING WORK? All of the people who learned that were killed in banzai charges, Goto Dengo says.

Neal Stephenson

Hey, Shaftoe says, if we surrender to you, you’ll kill us. Right? Yes. If you guys surrender to us, we won’t kill you. Promise. Scout’s honor. For us, living or dying is not the important thing, Goto Dengo says. Hey! Tell me something I didn’t fucking already know! Shaftoe says. Even winning battles isn’t important to you. Is it? Goto Dengo looks the other way, shamefaced. Haven’t you guys figured out yet that banzai charges DON’T FUCKING WORK? All of the people who learned that were killed in banzai charges, Goto Dengo says.

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About Neal Stephenson

Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction. His novels have been categorized as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, and baroque.
Stephenson's work explores mathematics, cryptography, linguistics, philosophy, currency, and the history of science. He also writes nonfiction articles about technology in publications such as Wired. He has written novels with his uncle, George Jewsbury ("J. Frederick George"), under the collective pseudonym Stephen Bury.
Stephenson has worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company (founded by Jeff Bezos) developing a spacecraft and a space launch system, and also co-founded the Subutai Corporation, whose first offering is the interactive fiction project The Mongoliad. He was Magic Leap's Chief Futurist from 2014 to 2020.