Neal Stephenson Quote
The mysterious Enoch Root meets 8-year-old Benjamin Franklin, Boston, 1713: Do I look like a schoolmaster to you? No, but you talk like one. You know something of schoolmasters, do you?Yes, sir, the boy says, faltering a bit as he sees the jaws of the trap swinging toward his leg. Yet here it is the middle of Monday— The place was empty 'cause of the Hanging. I didn't want to stay and— And what? Get more ahead of the others than I was already. If you are ahead, the correct thing is to get used to it—not to make yourself into an imbecile. Come, you belong in school.
Neal Stephenson
The mysterious Enoch Root meets 8-year-old Benjamin Franklin, Boston, 1713: Do I look like a schoolmaster to you? No, but you talk like one. You know something of schoolmasters, do you?Yes, sir, the boy says, faltering a bit as he sees the jaws of the trap swinging toward his leg. Yet here it is the middle of Monday— The place was empty 'cause of the Hanging. I didn't want to stay and— And what? Get more ahead of the others than I was already. If you are ahead, the correct thing is to get used to it—not to make yourself into an imbecile. Come, you belong in school.
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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.