“ You know, said Jack, I was a King for a while in Hindoostan, and my subjects would get worked up into a lather about a potato, which to them was worth as much as a treasure-chest. At first I'd want to… Neal Stephenson
“ You could get used to anything. You got used to it and then time raced by, and before you knew it, time was up. Neal Stephenson
“ While that thing was on, we ran a ridiculous amount of data through our servers. How much? I asked. He looked exasperated. Enough that I could make up some kind of strained analogy involving the conte… Neal Stephenson
“ When he came to his senses, he was aware that a large number of telephones were singing their little electronic songs. Including his. The birth cry of a new age. Neal Stephenson
“ When he came to his senses, he was aware that a large number of telephones were singing their little electronic songs. Including his. The birth cry of a new age. IVY Neal Stephenson
“ What’s a Klettersteig? Dinah asked, trying to move on. It is a mountain climb that is preengineered with cables, ladders, and so on. To make it easier, Dinah guessed. Oh, no. It is not easy. It is a w… Neal Stephenson
“ What, not coins in the bank? Does your purse hang as flaccid as a gelding's scrotum? Neal Stephenson
“ What's an adventure? Nell said. The word was written across the page. Then both pages filled with moving pictures of glorious things: girls in armor fighting dragons with Neal Stephenson
“ What should we be doing in the meantime? All of the things you will look back on fondly later when you have not been able to do them for a long time. Neal Stephenson
“ What makes you think they’re spying on you? Voco. An aut where a fraa or suur is called out from the math—Evoked—and goes to do something praxic for the Panjandrums. We never see them again. Neal Stephenson
“ What makes one Sumerian city better than another one? A bigger ziggurat? Abetter football team?Better me.What are me?Rules or principles that control the operation of society, like a code of laws,but… Neal Stephenson
“ What do you mean by values? They were code words like honesty, hard work, self-reliance . . . myths, actually, to motivate the people to accept the natural inequities found in a market system. Neal Stephenson
“ Wait a minute, Juanita. Make up your mind. This Snow Crash thing—is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?Juanita shrugs.—What’s the difference? Neal Stephenson
“ Those of us who are going to live, Dinah Said, have to start living by our own lights. Neal Stephenson
“ This one was called Ark Madiba, after a Moiran biologist of the Fourth Millennium who had in turn been named in memory of a hero of Old Earth. Neal Stephenson
“ This is an incredibly realistic training exercise—even down to the point of using ethnically correct pilots, and detonating fake explosives on the ships. Lawrence heartily approves. Things have just b… Neal Stephenson
