“ It was a smart cane. When he grabbed the handlebars it would help him stand up. It would then steady his locomotion even on the roughest terrain, adding its six legs to his two. Neal Stephenson
“ If you can't test it, it's not theorics -- it's metatheorics. A branch of philosophy. So, if you want to think of it this way, our test equipment is what defines the boundary separating theorics from… Neal Stephenson
“ From long experience in places like Afghanistan and Chechnya, Sokolov recognized, in the black jihadist’s movements, a sort of cultural or attitudinal advantage that such people always enjoyed in situ… Neal Stephenson
“ From long experience in places like Afghanisatan and Chechnya, Sokolov recognised, in the black jihadist’s movements, a sort of cultural or attitudinal advantage that such people always enjoyed in sit… Neal Stephenson
“ For one of the toxic things about Lineages was that rich avout could get not-so-rich ones to do things for them in exchange for better food, better drink, and better lodging. Neal Stephenson
“ Computers speak machine language, Hiro says. It's written in ones and zeroes-- binary code. At the lowest level, all computers are programmed with stringsof ones and zeroes. When you program in machin… Neal Stephenson
“ Back in very ancient times, when the marble columns of the Halls of Orithena still rose from the black rock of Ecba, all the world’s theors would gather beneath the great dome just before noon. Their… Neal Stephenson
“ Any information system of sufficient complexity will inevitably become infected with viruses—viruses generated from within itself. Neal Stephenson
“ Ammonia worked better, but it was dangerous, and you couldn’t easily get more of it in space. If the Cloud Ark survived, it would survive on a water-based economy. A hundred years from now everything… Neal Stephenson
“ Actually, I’ve been thinking about that, Tristan said, and finally sat down again. It’s the dog that didn’t bark. Neal Stephenson
“ Jack had wondered how geometers could be so inventive as to produce so many types and families of curves. Later he had come to perceive that of curves there was no end, and the true miracle was that p… Neal Stephenson
“ You live in a shithole, there's always the Metaverse, and in the Metaverse, Hiro Protagonist is a warrior prince. Neal Stephenson
“ A serial killer armed with a couple of feet of clothesline is far more dangerous than a cheerleader with a bazooka. Neal Stephenson
“ A nice standing ovation from a studio audience of angels, who having all died themselves, know a good death when they see one. Neal Stephenson
