Neal Stephenson Quote
Y.T. is bored. She gets on her plank. The wheels blossom and become circular.She guides a tight wobbly course around the cars, coasts down into the street.The spotlight follows her for a moment, maybe picking up some stock footage.Videotape is cheap. You never know when something will be useful, so you mightas well videotape it.People make their living that way -- people in the intel business. People likeHiro Protagonist. They just know stuff, or they just go around and videotapestuff. They put it in the Library. When people want to know the particularthings that they know or watch their videotapes, they pay them money and checkit out of the Library, or just buy it outright. This is a weird racket, butY.T. likes the idea of it. Usually, the CIC won't pay any attention to aKourier. But apparently Hiro has a deal with them. Maybe she can make a dealwith Hiro. Because Y.T. knows a lot of interesting little things.One little thing she knows is that the Mafia owes her a favor.
Y.T. is bored. She gets on her plank. The wheels blossom and become circular.She guides a tight wobbly course around the cars, coasts down into the street.The spotlight follows her for a moment, maybe picking up some stock footage.Videotape is cheap. You never know when something will be useful, so you mightas well videotape it.People make their living that way -- people in the intel business. People likeHiro Protagonist. They just know stuff, or they just go around and videotapestuff. They put it in the Library. When people want to know the particularthings that they know or watch their videotapes, they pay them money and checkit out of the Library, or just buy it outright. This is a weird racket, butY.T. likes the idea of it. Usually, the CIC won't pay any attention to aKourier. But apparently Hiro has a deal with them. Maybe she can make a dealwith Hiro. Because Y.T. knows a lot of interesting little things.One little thing she knows is that the Mafia owes her a favor.
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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.