“ Until that time, we have more than enough people to create healthy non-inbred children just by the usual process of fucking each other. Neal Stephenson
“ Nell did not imagine that Constable Moore wanted to get into a detailed discussion of recent events, so she changed the subject. I think I have finally worked out what you were trying to tell me, year… Neal Stephenson
“ Just because the Panjandrums know how to run cheeseburg stands, they think they know how to run a Convox. Neal Stephenson
“ Is power like the vis viva and the quantite d’avancement? That is, is it conserved by the universe, or is it like shares of a stock, which may have great value one day, and be worthless the next? If p… Neal Stephenson
“ If you've put yourself in a position where someone has to see you in order for you to be safe - to see you, and to give a fuck - you've already blown it. Neal Stephenson
“ I don't know how my face conveyed that information, or what kind of internal wiring in my grandmother's mind enabled her to accomplishthis incredible feat. To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.Co… Neal Stephenson
“ Dr. Turing of Cambridge says that the soul is an illusion and that all that defines us as human beings can be reduced to a series of mechanical operations. Neal Stephenson
“ The difference between poets and mystics . . . The mystic nails a symbol to one meaning that was true for a moment but soon becomes false. The poet, on the other hand, sees that truth but understands… Neal Stephenson
“ Y.T. knows he's a computer guy because he has long hair in a ponytail and he's wearing jeans and he seems gentle. Neal Stephenson
“ Today’s liturgy was something to do with developments in finite group theorics that had taken place about thirteen hundred years ago and that had caused their originator, Saunt Bly, to be Thrown Back… Neal Stephenson
“ The tragedy—and the entire point—of being a parent was the moment when the story stopped being about you. Neal Stephenson
“ The room contains a few dozen living human bodies, each one a big sack of guts and fluids so highly compressed that it will squirt for a few yards when pierced. Each one is built around an armature of… Neal Stephenson
