“ But this is how history is done now. People wait until they have a need for some history and then they customize it to suit their purposes. Neal Stephenson
“ Bulgarian professor named John Vincent Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, who were building a machine that was intended to automate the solution of some especially tedious differentia… Neal Stephenson
“ Babel led to an explosion in the number of languages. That was part of Enki's plan. Monocultures, like a field of corn, are susceptible to infections, but genetically diverse cultures, like a prairie,… Neal Stephenson
“ Apple has always insisted on having a hardware monopoly, except for a brief period in the mid-1990s when they allowed clone-makers to compete with them, before subsequently putting them out of busines… Neal Stephenson
“ Allegedly there was a Google Docs spreadsheet where it was being kept track of, but no one could agree on where it was. Neal Stephenson
“ All philosophies are eithermonist or dualist. Monists believe that the material world is the only world --hence, materialists. Dualists believe in a binary universe, that there is aspiritual world in… Neal Stephenson
“ A man is talking on the phone in Cantonese, which means that he is, in fact, shouting. Neal Stephenson
“ He was fascinated by the mid-western/middle American phenomenon of recombinant cuisine. Rice Krispie Treats being a prototypical example in that they were made by repurposing other foods (to wit, bre… Neal Stephenson
“ With the perky vigor of a man who had sat through one too many free webinars about the importance of networking. Neal Stephenson
“ While people were not genetically different, they were culturally as different as they could possibly be, and that some cultures were simply better than others. Neal Stephenson
“ What he’s really thinking is: why did I waste all those years in academia when I could have been doing great shit like this? Neal Stephenson
“ The federal government needs to be scaled back to a size where he can personally stomp it to death with steel-toed boots. Neal Stephenson
“ Overestimating the intelligence of the enemy is, if anything, more dangerous than underestimating it. Neal Stephenson
“ If Newton is the finger, Leibniz is the stone, and they press against each other with equal and opposite force, a little bit harder every day. RAVENSCAR: Neal Stephenson
“ Fought a Chinese long-sword instructor on a Hong Kong rooftop—he never thought the experience would help him write battle scenes. In addition to being a member of the Mongoliad writing team, Cooper ha… Neal Stephenson
“ But the great thing about traveling with Pluto was that he only cared about you to the extent that you were interesting to him now. In that way he kept you on your toes. No aspect of the relationship… Neal Stephenson
“ But it seemed that most of the people of Seattle were still obeying the rules and so he did likewise. Neal Stephenson
“ A rugged but sensitive but tough but loving but horny but smart hero having his way with a protesting but willing but struggling but yielding tempestuous female. Neal Stephenson
