“ It is early in November of 1942 and a simply unbelievable amount of shit is going on, all at once, everywhere. Neal Stephenson
“ It didn’t matter whether football for you was soccer or the American sport played by men in helmets. Neal Stephenson
“ In the decades before Zero, the 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 inf… Neal Stephenson
“ If Tombstone is shut down and grabbed by the cops before Randy can erase those traces, they will know he has logged on at the very moment that Tombstone was confiscated, and will put him in prison for… Neal Stephenson
“ I had to ride my bike to and from their god damn plant way up north in the high-chemical crime district, and reachable only by riding on the shoulder of some major freeways. I could feel the years tic… Neal Stephenson
“ I doubt you even know what duty is, she retorted. A risky response—such flippancy of the tongue—and it might provoke them, but showing fear would invite a response. Half of combat is causing your oppo… Neal Stephenson
“ Dr. Harris was now wishing that the late Doc Dubois had never opened his big fat mouth. Neal Stephenson
“ There is one universe, by the definition of universe. It is not the cosmos we see through our eyes and our telescopes—that is but a single Narrative, a thread winding through a Hemn space shared by ma… Neal Stephenson
“ The ports were individually numbered with glowing digits, and annotated, in the mixture of Latin and Cyrillic used throughout the ring, as to their purposes: TRANZIT IMMIGRAШON MILITARY CURVEY CPEЦ Neal Stephenson
“ The goal was to find products that would keep on making money forever, long after the talent had been paid off and sent packing. Neal Stephenson
“ The complications, as always, had to do with avoiding collisions and respecting what was still called air space around habitats, even though it had no air in it and might more properly have been calle… Neal Stephenson
“ That’s the bad news. Okay, and what is the good news? All the people saying mean things about me on the Internet are gonna be dead in four hundred and thirty-three days, she said, deadpan. Neal Stephenson
“ That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code. Neal Stephenson
“ That man behaves so much like the villain in a work of literature, it’s almost funny, Arsibalt observed. Neal Stephenson
“ So, just as all Fords rolling off the assembly line in a given week might have serial numbers beginning with the same few characters, all the network chips in a given batch would start with the same f… Neal Stephenson
