“ We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your head that you keep on humming all day until you spreadit to someone else. Jokes. Urban legends. Cra… Neal Stephenson
“ We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your head that you keep humming all day until you spread it to someone else. Jokes. Urban legends. Crack… Neal Stephenson
“ WITH CNÁN’S HELP, Raphael dressed the knife wound on Haakon’s hip. Raphael moved stiffly, and Haakon eventually saw why. A tiny stub of a broken arrow protruded from Raphael’s back. When Raphael finis… Neal Stephenson
“ Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy... Because they were hypocrites, the Victorians were despised in the late twentieth century. Man… Neal Stephenson
“ Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. Neal Stephenson
“ Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and s… Neal Stephenson
“ Unless you are as smart as Johann Karl Friedrich Gauss, savvy as a half-blind Calcutta bootblack, tough as General William Tecumseh Sherman, rich as the Queen of England, emotionally resilient as a Re… Neal Stephenson
“ Ty got the feeling, from cues in the Teklan’s physique and general style of movement, that he was some manner of Snake Eater. Neal Stephenson
“ To put it mildly, the International Space Station, until now, had never been the kind of place for surprise visits. Neal Stephenson
“ This means that all nation-states of Earth, and their governments and constitutions, no longer exist. Their military and civilian chains of command are no more. Oaths you may have taken to them, alleg… Neal Stephenson
“ They say that in D.C., all the museums and the monuments have been concessioned out and turned into a tourist park that now generates about 10 percent of the Government's revenue.The Feds could run th… Neal Stephenson
“ Then he reminded himself that he was already part of the biggest adventure ever, and that, so far, it had been altogether miserable. Neal Stephenson
“ The same thrust, pushing against a greatly reduced burden, would then yield acceleration that Lio had cheerfully described as 'near-fatal.' 'But it's okay,' he'd said, 'you'll black out before anythin… Neal Stephenson
“ The place was empty ‘cause of the Hanging. I didn’t want to stay and— And what? Get more ahead of the others than I was already. If you are ahead, the correct thing is to get used to it—not to make yo… Neal Stephenson
“ The difference between stupid and intelligent people – and this is true whether or not they are well-educated – is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. Neal Stephenson
“ That is a very odd thing to see on the Thames, Daniel remarked. What flag does she fly? For van Hoek had unlimbered his prospective-glass. The double eagle. She is a war-galley of the Russian Navy, va… Neal Stephenson
“ Technology is built on science. Science is like the alchemists’ uroburos, continually eating its own tail. The process of science doesn’t work unless young scientists have the freedom to attack and te… Neal Stephenson
“ Technically speaking, the pond should be full of carp, but Hiro is American enough to think of carp as inedible dinosaurs that sit on the bottom and eat sewage. Neal Stephenson
“ THE RUSSIAN INVASION BEGAN A WEEK LATER, WITH A SPATE OF flights producing what NASA described as mixed results and Roskosmos termed an acceptable fatality rate. Neal Stephenson
“ Sorry, she said, I got out as fast as I could, but I had to stay and socialize. Protocol, you know.Explain protocol, Nell said. This was how she always talked to the Primer.At the place we’re going, y… Neal Stephenson
