“ Princess Nell had to reconstruct them, learning the language, which was extremely pithy and made heavy use of parentheses. Neal Stephenson
“ People tried and failed to combine the words Izzy and Ymir. The closest they came was Izmir, but that had been the name of a city in Turkey. Neal Stephenson
“ No linear indexing system is adequate to express the multi-dimensionality of knowledge, Dr. Waterhouse reminds him. Neal Stephenson
“ My se ve světě protloukáme, protože víme, že dvě plus dvě jsou čtyři, a držíme se toho tak usilovně, až je to kapku hloupý a občas se to může dotknout něčích citů. Je mi to líto.„Čích citů jako? Lidí,… Neal Stephenson
“ Much depended on how rapidly it would prove feasible to mass-produce inflatable structures; these made it possible to create much more spacious volumes by housing people in what amounted to thick-skin… Neal Stephenson
“ Most men would rather be shot through with a broad-headed arrow than be described by you. Eliza could not help laughing. Neal Stephenson
“ Maybe that’s what a leader is, Dinah. The one person who can’t—who shouldn’t—share her problems with anyone else. Neal Stephenson
“ Like any place in Reality, the Street is subject to development. Developers canbuild their own small streets feeding off of the main one. They can buildbuildings, parks, signs, as well as things that… Neal Stephenson
“ Kids who are obsessed with locks frequently turn into adults who are obsessed with crypto. Neal Stephenson
“ Just like many Popish Plotters before them, these had promptly begun to commit suicide in the Tower. One had even managed the heroic feat of cutting his own throat all the way to the vertebrae! Neal Stephenson
“ It's daytime. A wall of billowing orange flame grows up silently from the tank farm a mile away, like a time-lapse chrysanthemum. It is so vast and complicated in its blooming, uncontrolled growth tha… Neal Stephenson
“ It's a solid hit, as solid as you can get on thisnebula of air, upholstery, paint, and marketing known as the family minivan. Neal Stephenson
“ It was humanly impossible to extend to seven billion people the full sympathy that each of them deserved. Neal Stephenson
“ It appeared that way, Lawrence, but this raised the question of was mathematics really true or was it just a game played with symbols? In other words—are we discovering Truth, or just wanking? Neal Stephenson
“ Is dangerous, I know, to take ride from strangers. With assault rifle in backpack, not so dangerous. Neal Stephenson
“ Indeed, cousine, I should rather you were a sincere Satanist than a pretend one; for the former recognizes God’s majesty, and may be reformed, while the latter is an atheist, and doomed to the Lake of… Neal Stephenson
“ In the wilderness, only the most terrible beasts of prey cavort and gambol. Deer and rabbits play no games. Neal Stephenson
“ If you posture defiantly, it tells me that you have not learned the skill of recognizing when you are running awry, and correcting yourself. And you must leave my house in that case, for such people o… Neal Stephenson
