Neal Stephenson Quote
Once she gets over the shock of it and settles into a routine, she startslooking around her, watching the other fish-cutting dames, and realizes thatthis 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 around you, but they don'tunderstand you and you don't understand them, but people do a lot of pointlessbabbling anyway. In order to stay alive, you have to spend all day every daydoing stupid meaningless work. And the only way to get out of it is to quit,cut loose, take a flyer, and go off into the wicked world, where you will beswallowed up and never heard from again.
Once she gets over the shock of it and settles into a routine, she startslooking around her, watching the other fish-cutting dames, and realizes thatthis 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 around you, but they don'tunderstand you and you don't understand them, but people do a lot of pointlessbabbling anyway. In order to stay alive, you have to spend all day every daydoing stupid meaningless work. And the only way to get out of it is to quit,cut loose, take a flyer, and go off into the wicked world, where you will beswallowed up and never heard from again.
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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.