“ THE IRIS OF THE EYE WAS TOO BIG TO HAVE BEEN FABRICATED AS A single rigid object. It had been built, beginning about nine hundred years ago, out of links that had been joined together into a chain; th… Neal Stephenson
“ THE APOSTOLIC CAFÉ had expanded its offerings to include Euclid’s Grill—casual buffet by day, fine dining by night, served in the former nave. Neal Stephenson
“ Sorry, baby. Let's get out of here, he says, speaking with the intense, strained tones of a man with an erection. Neal Stephenson
“ So the Sumerians worshipped Enki, and the Babylonians, who came after theSumerians, worshipped Marduk, his son.Yes, sir. And whenever Marduk got stuck, he would ask his father Enki forhelp. There is a… Neal Stephenson
“ She considered hypothesis 3 to be quite unlikely, since she didn’t feel the least bit psychopathic, but included it in the list out of respect for the scientific method. Neal Stephenson
“ Se podían haber planteado todo tipo de argumentos filosóficos sobre si ese enfoque era mejor o peor que lo que estaban haciendo en realidad, pero, en el fondo, la filosofía no contaba demasiado. Neal Stephenson
“ Reader, if you don’t know what a database is, rest assured that an explanation of the concept would in no way increase your enjoyment in reading this account. Neal Stephenson
“ Paris to Jack and most others, then, was a network of deep trenches with vertical walls, and a few drafty battlements atop those walls—otherwise, the world’s largest collection of closed and locked do… Neal Stephenson
“ Other people would want to sentimentalize about the old days, 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 tha… Neal Stephenson
“ Other bits of England might be cramped, crowded, and cluttered, but only because all the available space had been claimed by this guest suite. It was situated right in Trinity College, and Richard gue… Neal Stephenson
“ One of the soldiers slapped Gansukh on the legs with the shaft of his spear, and the Mongol warrior rolled away from the blow, getting his legs under him. Even though Gansukh didn’t understand a word… Neal Stephenson
“ Oh, god! Carl Hollywood said, and collapsed into a big, tatty, overstuffed chair they kept backstage for such purposes. Neal Stephenson
“ Now there are many Shaftoes—mostly in Tennessee—but the Shaftoe family tree still fits on a cross-stitch sampler. Neal Stephenson
“ Now the roads just feed into a parkingsystem -- not a lot, not a ramp, but a system -- and lose their identity.Getting through the intersection involves tracing paths through the parkingsystem, many b… Neal Stephenson
“ No surprises is the motto of the franchise ghetto, its Good Housekeeping seal, subliminally blazoned on every sign and logo that make up the curves and grids of light that outline the Basin. Neal Stephenson
“ My eyes skimmed over the legalese and bureaucratese (two languages I had never mastered), until I found something descriptive to Neal Stephenson
“ Judge Fang got to eat this way only when someone really important was trying to taint him, and though he had never knowingly allowed his judicial judgment to be swayed, he did enjoy the chow. Neal Stephenson
“ Juanita refused to analyze this process, insisted that it was something ineffable, something you couldn't explain with words. A radical, rosary-toting Catholic, she has no problem with that kind of th… Neal Stephenson
“ Jack could sound them out only through carousing with them over a period of weeks. Jack had long since lost interest in carousing per se, but he recalled how it was done, and could still put on a perf… Neal Stephenson
