“ That's when the realization comes. It swims up out of her subconscious in the same way that a nightmare does. Or when you leave the house and remember half an hour later that you left a teakettle goin… Neal Stephenson
“ That merely glimpsing three good wooden boxes on a baggage-wain could lead to such broodings made Daniel wonder that he could get out of bed in the morning. Once, he had feared that old age would brin… Neal Stephenson
“ THREE DAYS NORTH of the Danube, the road focused to a rut in a crowd of scrawny trees that were striving to rise clear from a haze of grasping weeds. Neal Stephenson
“ THE MOON BLEW UP WITHOUT WARNING AND FOR NO APPARENT reason. It was waxing, only one day short of full. Neal Stephenson
“ Space and Time! Two minor omissions that no one is likely to notice, grumbled Newton. Neal Stephenson
“ Sometimes I wonder who'll come after me, he says. Oh, we have plenty ofexcellent people in the next generation. But after that -- well, I don't know.I guess all old people feel like the world is comin… Neal Stephenson
“ Some of them, out of habit, looked at him soberly; etiquette dictated that you give all sympathy to the oppressed. Neal Stephenson
“ So, let me guess, she says, you are the guy doing the software.Yeah, he admits, a little defensive, but the software is the only interesting part of this whole project. All the rest is making license… Neal Stephenson
“ So through no rational process whatsoever I was the leader, And I had no idea what I was going to say. Neal Stephenson
“ So I looked with fascination at those people in their mobes, and tried to fathom what it would be like. Thousands of years ago, the work that people did had been broken down into jobs that were the sa… Neal Stephenson
“ She turns the speedometer off. Running totally black now. Precipitating her way toward the sweet 'crete of the creek bottom like a black angel who has just had the shroud lines of her celestial parach… Neal Stephenson
“ She had stayed inside so that she could watch it on the TV in the room, let him know how it had looked on video, how the commentators and pundits had framed it. It Neal Stephenson
“ She definitely heard the words for airplane and airport, which delighted some little-girl part of her soul (Yay, going on a trip!) even as her higher brain was ticking off all the bad things that coul… Neal Stephenson
“ Shaftoe wasn’t a boxer. He was a wrestler. This was to his advantage. The other Marines would put up their dukes and try to fight it out—Marquis of Queensberry style—no match for chop-socky. Shaftoe h… Neal Stephenson
“ See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places, Raven says. Neal Stephenson
“ Say more about the Crips and the Bloods, Richard said, stalling for time while he tried to get his mental house in order. To us they look the same. Urban black kids with similar demographics and taste… Neal Stephenson
“ SHE LET US INTO THE house, which had the subtle smell of old wood and old wool—as I used to imagine Victorian homes smelled in Victorian times, before I was recently alerted to the painful truth that… Neal Stephenson
“ Randy says, You asked me earlier what is the highest and best purpose to which we could dedicate our lives. And the obvious answer is ‘to prevent future Holocausts.’ Avi laughs darkly. I’m glad it’s o… Neal Stephenson
“ Randy grinds his teeth for about a mile, and then says, If there is any generalization at all that you can draw about how men think versus how women think, I believe it is that men can narrow themselv… Neal Stephenson
“ RESUMES: Just recall the opening reel of The Magnificent Seven and you won’t have to bother with this part; you should crawl to us on hands and knees and beg us for the privilege of paying our salarie… Neal Stephenson
