Neal Stephenson Quote
Spoken like a true Nipponese, Enoch says bitterly. You never change. Please make me understand what you are saying. What of the man who cannot get out of bed and work, because he has no legs? What of the widow who has no husband to work, no children to support her? What of children who cannot improve their minds because they lack books and schoolhouses? You can shower gold on them, Goto Dengo says. Soon enough, it will all be gone. Yes. But some of it will be gone into books and bandages.
Neal Stephenson
Spoken like a true Nipponese, Enoch says bitterly. You never change. Please make me understand what you are saying. What of the man who cannot get out of bed and work, because he has no legs? What of the widow who has no husband to work, no children to support her? What of children who cannot improve their minds because they lack books and schoolhouses? You can shower gold on them, Goto Dengo says. Soon enough, it will all be gone. Yes. But some of it will be gone into books and bandages.
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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.