“ If you make certain assumptions about the force of gravity, and how the weight of an object diminishes as it gets farther away, it’s not improbable at all, Isaac said. It just happens. You would keep… Neal Stephenson
“ If the manifest of ingredients on the bottle had been legible, it would have read something like this: Water, blackstrap molasses, imported habanero peppers, salt, garlic, ginger, tomato puree, axle g… Neal Stephenson
“ If Admiral Tourville’s invasion-fleet makes it across the Channel without being sunk by the Royal Navy, and if the Papist legion establishes a beachhead on English soil without being destroyed by the… Neal Stephenson
“ I was going to kill that doctor when he shoved his finger up my ass but then I realized the possibilities of that substance. Neal Stephenson
“ I made it into Wikipedia, sang Erszebet. I’ll bet none of my enemies ever made it into Wikipedia. Neal Stephenson
“ I found out that the idea of the Internet as a highly distributed, redundant global communications system is a myth,’’ he discovered. Virtually all communications between countries take place through… Neal Stephenson
“ I can’t predict the future, I said, but based on what little I know so far, I’m afraid it has to be a massive adventure or nothing. Great! Probably the kind of adventure that ends in a mass burial. Th… Neal Stephenson
“ I beg your pardon? Robson says.One thing Waterhouse likes about these Brits is that when they don't know what the hell you're talking about, they are at least open to the possibility that it might be… Neal Stephenson
“ I apologize if my limbic system has misinterpreted your gesture of emotional support. Neal Stephenson
“ Hygiene isn’t really about dirt. It’s about germs. It’s to prevent the spread of sequences that are dangerous if they are allowed to propagate. We don’t think the Ita are dirty in the sense of not was… Neal Stephenson
“ Humans needed water or they would die, but dirty water killed as surely as thirst. You had to boil it before you drank it. This culture around tea was a way of tiptoeing along the knife edge between t… Neal Stephenson
“ Hiro and Y.T. have eaten a lot of junk food together in different joints allover L.A. -- doughnuts, burritos, pizza, sushi, you name it -- and all Y.T. evertalks about is her mother and the terrible j… Neal Stephenson
“ Her coverall darkens, the colors shimmer through the electropigment like an oil slick, and then it’s black. Neal Stephenson
“ He was neither dead nor here, but in Idaho, a state often confused, by bicoastal folks, with Iowa, but that in fact was the anti-Iowa in many respects, a place that Iowans would only go to in order to… Neal Stephenson
“ He is full of adrenaline, his nerves are shot, and his mind is cluttered up with free-floating anxiety-floating around on an ocean of generalized terror. Neal Stephenson
“ He gave them descriptive names that wouldn’t scare people. It wouldn’t do to call them Nemesis or Thor or Grond. So instead it was Potatohead, Mr. Spinny, Acorn, Peach Pit, Scoop, Big Boy, and Kidney… Neal Stephenson
“ Get this one a copy of the Cryptonomicon. And a desk—as close to the coffee machine as possible. And why don’t you promote the son of a bitch as long as you’re at it. Neal Stephenson
“ For most of the day and night, time oppresses me. It is only when I am at work on the innards of a clock-or a lock-that time stops.The clock stops, you mean.No. Time stops, or so it seems. I do not se… Neal Stephenson
