“ AMONGOL, KNOCKED INTO a cook fire during the initial surge of horsemen, had lived long enough to run—shirt and hair on fire—into the rows of tents. Rutger assumed he had died from the burns, but befor… Neal Stephenson
“ A major street intersects, at something other than a ninety-degree angle, a smaller commercial street, defining two (smaller) acute-angle lots and two (larger) obtuse-angle lots. On one side of the ma… Neal Stephenson
“ This is just like life must be for about 99 percent of the people in the world. You're in this place. There's other people all around you, but they don't understand you and you don't understand them,… Neal Stephenson
“ —Creo que lo que Camila quiere decir es que ciertos tipos de personalidad, si se llevan al extremo, son tan negativos como una enfermedad mental; si no peores Neal Stephenson
“ Us—I looked at that beautiful snow-capped mountain and named it Eliza. Because it was warm, fertile, and beautiful below, while being a bit frosty and inaccessible at the top—yet possessing a volcanic… Neal Stephenson
“ To insist on everything’s being reasonable, in a world that wasn’t, was, in itself, unreasonable. Neal Stephenson
“ This is the word—‘politics’—that nerds use whenever they feel impatient about the human realities of an organization. Neal Stephenson
“ There are no jaded, bored people in the high-tech industry, in the land of really good hardcore geeks. They all have a kind of intensity about what they’re doing that makes it impossible for them to b… Neal Stephenson
“ The whole idea of stealing fantastically dangerous weapons presents the would-be perp with inherent dangers and contradictions: When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handl… Neal Stephenson
“ Scattering of schizophrenic first worlders who have long ago burned their brains to ash in the radiant heat of their own imaginings. Neal Stephenson
“ Right now my mind is full of images, an overwhelming flood of memories and ideas—you have any idea how many memories are buried in the mind? Fishing for bluegill on Lake Argyle with my father, the hoo… Neal Stephenson
“ Its speedometer. But the bamboo grove in Bobby Shaftoe’s haiku has not been added just to put a little Oriental flavor into the poem and wow the folks back home in Oconomowoc. Neal Stephenson
“ It has left a neat bomb-shaped hole in the deck, just like a panicky Warner Brothers cartoon character passing at high speed through a planar structure such as a wall or ceiling. Neal Stephenson
“ If the entire world were to become a police state obsessed with recovering old secrets, then vast resources might be thrown at the problem of factoring large composite numbers. Neal Stephenson
“ If any of them notice you and, for some reason, object to your little plan, whatever the fuck it is, then by all means kill them. And if that doesn’t work, please, by all means, kill yourself, because… Neal Stephenson
“ His whimper dying in his throat. There had been a flash of white moonlight reflecting off pale skin, and when the second one passed, he clapped his hand over his mouth to stifle his cry of terror at w… Neal Stephenson
“ Boys had been programmed by Darwinian selection to run around in the open chucking spears at wild animals—something Neal Stephenson
“ Added. Apparently a mere two-cab caravan was not enough to trigger Ariane’s anxieties, and so the one carrying Neal Stephenson
“ [...] people too busy leading their lives to worry about extending their life expectancy. Neal Stephenson
“ Your mistake, Ng says, is that you think that all mechanically assistedorganisms -- like me -- are pathetic cripples. In fact, we are better than wewere before. Neal Stephenson
