“ So she spends until about eleven A.M. reading, re-reading, and understanding the new changes in the Project. There are many of these, because this is a Monday morning and Marietta and her higher-ups s… Neal Stephenson
“ She just didn’t think it decent to live in a place where there were no coffee shops to have breakfast in when she woke up, Neal Stephenson
“ No wind stirred the scene, and the pluming smoke billowed and roiled at its own whim. The plain near the bridge had been flattened by the passage of so many horses and men that it was nothing more tha… Neal Stephenson
“ No point in describing the office. No point in even allowing the office to evenregister on her eyeballs and take up valuable memory space in her brain.Fluorescent lights and partitions with carpet glu… Neal Stephenson
“ No matter how smart we get, there is always this deep irrational part that makes us potential hosts for self-replicating information. Neal Stephenson
“ Most people, on listening to a string of nonsense, will tend to doubt their own sanity before they realize that the person who is jabbering at them is really the one with the damaged brain. Neal Stephenson
“ Izzy was full of people who were skewed toward the Asperger’s end of the social spectrum, and there was no better way to get them to start talking than to ask them a technical question. Neal Stephenson
“ In most of the world, Magellan is thought of as the first guy who went around the world. Here, everyone knows he only made it as far as Mactan Island, where he was killed by Filipinos. Neal Stephenson
“ I remember asking him, 'Why did you print that stuff out, why not use thumb drives like everyone else,' and he said, 'Owning your own space company brings some perks,' Dinah said. She found them aft… Neal Stephenson
“ I have been ranting and raving about this ever since the idea of the Cloud Ark was announced. So far all I get in return, from the powers that be, are vague answers and hand-wavy happy talk. Neal Stephenson
“ His real job—the job that the Owners paid him for—was to be an observer of the human condition as it was so richly displayed from day to day within these walls. Neal Stephenson
“ His baseline attitude toward humans was that they could all just go fuck themselves and that he was not going to expend any effort whatsoever getting them to change the way they thought. This was prob… Neal Stephenson
“ He has found that he works best when he is not horny, which is to say in the day or so following ejaculation. Neal Stephenson
“ But what little I’d heard had left me amazed by how clever people were at finding ways to make each other crazy and miserable. Neal Stephenson
“ 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
“ Veering cars holding their horn buttons down in long Dopplered howls of protest. Another Neal Stephenson
“ The pole’s center was a gleaming lump about the size of a person’s head, which any Spacer would recognize as a small nickel-iron asteroid, as common in space as dead leaves were on the reforested surf… Neal Stephenson
“ Organizers had been able to find interpreters for. First up on the dais was Mary Bulinski, the United States secretary of the interior, an inveterate hiker and climber, spry at sixty. By training she… Neal Stephenson
“ Could jab my thumb with it and draw blood. The brown smear across the top of this page can be tested in any twenty-first-century DNA lab. Compare Neal Stephenson
