“ That was his youngest. Hadley, the girl in the middle, was in Berkeley; she’d been doing volunteer work for an organization in Oakland and had a lot of free time. Neal Stephenson
“ THE LAY OF WALMART TRANSLATOR’S NOTE: The Lay of Walmart comprises two parts. Handwriting analysis confirms that both were written by the same author, self-identified as Tóki Olafsson, a skald Neal Stephenson
“ SouthernCalifornia doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot.Not enough roads for the number of people. Fairlanes, Inc. is laying new onesall the time. Have to bulldoze lots o… Neal Stephenson
“ Since the military part of town could not tolerate disarray and the commercial part found it unprofitable, all of the chaos had been pushed into the old town, which had become the kingdom of broken pl… Neal Stephenson
“ Scholars of economic history have worked up numbers suggesting that Britain spent more on maintaining its empire than it gained from exploiting it. Neal Stephenson
“ Put 'em on and be yourself, mister alienated loner steppenwolf bemused distant meta-izing technocrat rationalist fucking shithead. Neal Stephenson
“ One of the insights of the Victorian Revival was that it was not necessarily a good thing for everyone to read a completely different newspaper in the morning; so the higher one rose in the society, t… Neal Stephenson
“ One of the ice cubes in Doob’s glass let out a little pop as it underwent thermal fracturing. Doob Neal Stephenson
“ One of the funny things about it, in retrospect, was its slowness, the lack of any dramatic Moment When It Had Happened. It was a little bit like the world’s adoption of the Internet, which had starte… Neal Stephenson
“ Old Earthers had focused their intelligence on the small and the soft, not the big and the hard, and built a civilization that was puny and crumbling where physical infrastructure was concerned, but a… Neal Stephenson
“ Now he had learned that a machine, simple in its design, could produce results of infinite complexity. Neal Stephenson
“ Not as romantic as a dozen roses, she countered. Still, he said, what is it that a man is trying to say with a dozen roses? Simply that he is thinking of you. Shortly Neal Stephenson
“ Nell, the Constable continued, indicating through his tone of voice that the lesson was concluding, the difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has… Neal Stephenson
“ Microsoft is ten times smarter, a hundred times more aggressive, and bound by no particular rules. It gives Randy a little frisson just to imagine Harvard Li’s situation: being chased across the plane… Neal Stephenson
“ It was then that she cut him off in midsentence and said that it was over. She said it with a certainty and a conviction in her voice and her face that left him fascinated and awed. Because guys, at l… Neal Stephenson
