“ Atmosphere, but she connected them anyway, as well as a power cable. Then she reached back behind her, all the way down to Neal Stephenson
“ Any event largely organized by elementary school teachers was likely to come off extremely well from a logistical and crowd-control standpoint. Neal Stephenson
“ And nothing was worse than getting stuck in a situation like that with nothing to read. Neal Stephenson
“ A post-agrarian religion in which literal sacrifice had been replaced by symbolic; they opened their meals with a re-enactment in effigy of that, then praised their God for a while, then asked Him for… Neal Stephenson
“ You have criminals? Of course. But the mere fact that Quin responded in this way caused Orolo to jump to a new leaf of the questionnaire. How do you know? What?! You say of course there are criminals,… Neal Stephenson
“ You bent my words again, says Goto Dengo. You spoke crooked words and I straightened them, Neal Stephenson
“ Y.T. is bored. She gets on her plank. The wheels blossom and become circular.She guides a tight wobbly course around the cars, coasts down into the street.The spotlight follows her for a moment, maybe… Neal Stephenson
“ Why would that cause him to pack up his bolt, chord, and sphere, and hurry to Ecba, of all places? Neal Stephenson
“ When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins. Hiro Neal Stephenson
“ When the Bolide Fragmentation Rate shot up through a certain level on Day 701, marking the formal beginning of the White Sky, a number of cultural organizations launched programs that they had been pl… Neal Stephenson
“ When Hiro first saw this place, ten years ago, the monorail hadn't been written yet; he and his buddies had to write car and motorcycle software in order to get around. They would take their software… Neal Stephenson
“ What’s the point? The mass of people are so stupid, so gullible, because they want to be misled. There’s no way to make them not want it. You have to work with the human race as it exists, with all of… Neal Stephenson
“ What is your name? Ariane asked him. The kid put up his deflector screens and said, Einstein. Silence then. When no one laughed, he stood straighter and drifted closer. Neal Stephenson
“ We’re like meridians, all beginning and ending in the same place. We spread out from the beginning and go our separate ways, over seas and mountains and islands and deserts, each telling our own story… Neal Stephenson
“ Well, says Uncle Enzo. It is the well that begins the end of aconversation. I was going to send you some roses, but you wouldn't really beinterested in that, would you? Neal Stephenson
“ We've got two kinds of language in our heads. The kind we're using now isacquired. It patterns our brains as we're learning it. But there's also atongue that's based in the deep structures of the brai… Neal Stephenson
“ We are technocrats. We make decisions like engineers. Which doesn't always line up with what people imagine they want. Neal Stephenson
“ Waterhouse's new roommate is out of town just now, but by glancing over his personal effects, Waterhouse estimates that he is paddling a black kayak from Australia to Yokosuka Naval Base, where he wil… Neal Stephenson
“ Waging war on his enemies had been Sokolov’s habit and his profession for a long time, but being chivalrous to everyone else was simply a basic tenet of having your shit together as a human and as a m… Neal Stephenson
“ Vyacheslav exited through New Caird’s airlock, clambered down a stack of robots to the surface, and then made his way toward the site. Neal Stephenson
