“ Sumerian culture -- the society based on me -- was anothermanifestation of the metavirus. Except that in this case, it was in alinguistic form rather than DNA.Excuse me, Mr. Lee says. You are saying t… Neal Stephenson
“ Shaftoe and Bischoff are trudging through the dark Swedish woods like a pair of lost souls trying to find the side entrance to Limbo. Neal Stephenson
“ Richard felt no guilt about this, since he had heard that Google Earth, in turn, was based on an idea from some old science-fiction novel. Neal Stephenson
“ Orolo said, What if these two universes—each as big and as old and as complicated as ours—were entirely separate, except for a single photon that managed to travel somehow between them. Would that be… Neal Stephenson
“ Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Neal Stephenson
“ Like a horseman who reins in a wild stallion that has borne him, will he, nill he, across several counties; or a ship's captain who, after scudding before a gale through a bad night, hoists sail, and… Neal Stephenson
“ It had come from one of two corgis who were even now slamming their preposterous bodies into each other not far away, trying to roll each other over, which runs contrary to the laws of mechanics even… Neal Stephenson
“ If you think of the Greek gods as real supernatural beings who lived on Mount Olympus, no. But if you think of them as being in the same class of entities as the Root Rep, which is to say, patterns of… Neal Stephenson
“ If the gathering had included more veterans of that elongated state of low-intensity warfare known as Society, this observation would have been keenly made by those soi-disant sentries who stood upon… Neal Stephenson
“ A straightforward way of defining metaphysics is as the set of assumptions and practices present in the scientist’s mind before he or she begins to do science. Neal Stephenson
“ You work harder because everything is on the line. Your name, your honor, your family, your life. Those burger flippers might have a better life expectancy—but what kind of life is it anyway, you have… Neal Stephenson
“ When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins. Neal Stephenson
“ What people do isn't determined by where they live. It happens to be their damned fault. They decided to watch TV instead of thinking when they were in high school. They decided to blow-off courses an… Neal Stephenson
“ Wealth that is stored up in gold is dead. It rots and stinks. True wealth is made every day by men getting up out of bed and going to work. Neal Stephenson
“ Water, blackstrap molasses, imported habanero peppers, salt, garlic, ginger, tomato puree, axle grease, real hickory smoke, snuff, butts of clove cigarettes, Guinness Stout fermentation dregs, uranium… Neal Stephenson
“ To him it was a sort of hyperspace-librarian, girl-geek thing that he found clever and fetching without attracting him in a way that would have been creepy. Neal Stephenson
