“ This is how it’s done, you pile one thing on top of the next and you keep it up and keep it up—sometimes the galleon sinks in a typhoon, you don’t get your slab of granite that year—but you stick with… Neal Stephenson
“ They had hired psychologists, invested millions in a project to sabotage movies—yes, the entire medium of cinema—to get their customers/players/addicts into a state of mind where they simply could not… Neal Stephenson
“ The group, as the knights preferred stallions—and knelt in the sun-dappled mud and grass of a narrow meadow. Raphael and Percival joined her, kneeling on the other side of the run, two steps back. Mon… Neal Stephenson
“ The basic premise of Eutropianism is that technology has made us post-human. That Homo sapiens plus technology is effectively a whole new species: immortal, omnipresent because of the Net, and headed… Neal Stephenson
“ Some manner of cause-and-effect relationship existed between the rise of scientific knowledge and the decline of magic. Neal Stephenson
“ People with hopes were apt to become profligate in spending resources and taking risks. Which Neal Stephenson
“ Mailing list, which is where all of the cool guys like John Cantrell hang out to discuss the very latest hashing algorithms and pseudo-random-number generators. Neal Stephenson
“ From a hundred to a hundred and fifty kilometers, depending on how fat you were and whether Neal Stephenson
“ At this point in their lives, neither one of them is important enough to kill, kidnap, or interrogate. Neal Stephenson
“ As normally solved by engineers, would require any number of perfectly reasonable but aesthetically displeasing approximations. Lawrence’s solution would provide exact results. Neal Stephenson
“ Your ability to have empathy with the Geometer—to imagine what it would be like to be someone else—isn’t a mere courtesy. It is an innate process of consciousness. Neal Stephenson
“ Yo, Y.T., Roadkill says, 'sup?'Sup with you?Surfing the Tura. 'Sup with you?Maxing The Clink.Whoa! Who popped you?MetaCops. Affixed me to the gate of White Columns with a loogie gun.Whoa, how very! W… Neal Stephenson
“ Whether or not this was a valid theory, the fact was that Aïda swallowed it hook, line, and sinker and used it to inform her genetic strategy in the Great Game. And to the extent that the Four bothere… Neal Stephenson
“ When a thing such as wax, or gold, or silver, turns liquid from heat, we say that it has fused, Eliza said to her son, and when such liquids run together and mix, we say they are con-fused. Papa says… Neal Stephenson
“ When Hiro learned how to do this, way back fifteen years ago, a hacker could sit down and write an entire piece of software by himself. Now, that's no longer possible. Software comes out of factories,… Neal Stephenson
“ What are letters?Kinda like mediaglyphics except they’re all black, and they’re tiny, they don’t move, they’re old and boring and really hard to read. But you can use ’em to make short words for long… Neal Stephenson
“ We had these throwbacks who would do stuff like printing their emails out on paper to read them, or asking you for your goddamn fax number two decades after you had thrown away your fax machine. Neal Stephenson
“ We can’t run this experiment a thousand times to see the range of different outcomes. We can only run it once. The human mind has trouble with situations like that. We see patterns where they don’t ex… Neal Stephenson
