Neal Stephenson Quote
What do you think Orolo saw, when he looked out thus? Fraa Jad asked. He was a great appreciator of beauty and loved to look at the mountains from the starhenge, I said. You think he saw beauty? That is a safe answer, since it is beautiful. But what was he thinking about? What connections did the beauty enable him to perceive? I couldn’t possibly answer that. Don’t answer it. Ask it.
Neal Stephenson
What do you think Orolo saw, when he looked out thus? Fraa Jad asked. He was a great appreciator of beauty and loved to look at the mountains from the starhenge, I said. You think he saw beauty? That is a safe answer, since it is beautiful. But what was he thinking about? What connections did the beauty enable him to perceive? I couldn’t possibly answer that. Don’t answer it. Ask it.
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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.