Neal Stephenson Quote
She eyes him warily. Exactly the same way she did when he came into her officeyears ago.It comes into his mind to wonder why she is always so alert in his presence. Incollege, he used to think that she was afraid of his intellect, but he's knownfor years that this is the last of her worries. At Black Sun Systems, hefigured that it was just typical female guardedness -- Juanita was afraid he wastrying to get her into the sack. But this, too, is pretty much out of thequestion.At this late date in his romantic career, he is just canny enough to come upwith a new theory: She's being careful because she likes him. She likes him inspite of herself. He is exactly the kind of tempting but utterly wrong romanticchoice that a smart girl like Juanita must learn to avoid.That's definitely it. There's something to be said for getting older.
She eyes him warily. Exactly the same way she did when he came into her officeyears ago.It comes into his mind to wonder why she is always so alert in his presence. Incollege, he used to think that she was afraid of his intellect, but he's knownfor years that this is the last of her worries. At Black Sun Systems, hefigured that it was just typical female guardedness -- Juanita was afraid he wastrying to get her into the sack. But this, too, is pretty much out of thequestion.At this late date in his romantic career, he is just canny enough to come upwith a new theory: She's being careful because she likes him. She likes him inspite of herself. He is exactly the kind of tempting but utterly wrong romanticchoice that a smart girl like Juanita must learn to avoid.That's definitely it. There's something to be said for getting older.
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About Neal Stephenson
Stephenson's work explores mathematics, cryptography, linguistics, philosophy, currency, and the history of science. He also writes non-fiction 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 is also a cofounder of Subutai Corporation, whose first offering is the interactive fiction project The Mongoliad. He was Magic Leap's Chief Futurist from 2014 to 2020.