Neal Stephenson Quote
I can’t predict the future, I said, but based on what little I know so far, I’m afraid it has to be a massive adventure or nothing. Great! Probably the kind of adventure that ends in a mass burial. That quieted her down a little bit. But after a while, she said: Do you need transportation? Tools? Stuff? Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs, I said. We have a protractor. Okay, I’ll go home and see if I can scrounge up a ruler and a piece of string. That’d be great.
Neal Stephenson
I can’t predict the future, I said, but based on what little I know so far, I’m afraid it has to be a massive adventure or nothing. Great! Probably the kind of adventure that ends in a mass burial. That quieted her down a little bit. But after a while, she said: Do you need transportation? Tools? Stuff? Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs, I said. We have a protractor. Okay, I’ll go home and see if I can scrounge up a ruler and a piece of string. That’d be great.
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About Neal Stephenson
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.