Neal Stephenson Quote
So, let me guess, she says, you are the guy doing the software.Yeah, he admits, a little defensive, but the software is the only interesting part of this whole project. All the rest is making license plates.That wakes her up a little. Making license plates?It's an expression my that my business partner and I use, Randy says. With any job, there's some creative work that needs to be done-new technology to be developed or whatever. Everything else-ninety-nine percent of it-is making deals, raising capital, going to meetings, marketing and sales. We call that stuff making license plates.
Neal Stephenson
So, let me guess, she says, you are the guy doing the software.Yeah, he admits, a little defensive, but the software is the only interesting part of this whole project. All the rest is making license plates.That wakes her up a little. Making license plates?It's an expression my that my business partner and I use, Randy says. With any job, there's some creative work that needs to be done-new technology to be developed or whatever. Everything else-ninety-nine percent of it-is making deals, raising capital, going to meetings, marketing and sales. We call that stuff making license plates.
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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.