“ Well, it seems that this process you call consciousness is somewhat more complex than you perhaps gave it credit for at first, Orolo said. One must be able to take in givens from sparse dustings of pr… Neal Stephenson
“ The suspect had experienced a ballistic interlude earlier in the evening, Miss Pao said, regrettably not filmed, and relieved himself of excess velocity by means of an ablative technique. (describing… Neal Stephenson
“ The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallowed subcategory. He's got esprit up to here. Right now, he is preparing to carry out his third mission of the night. His uniform is black as activated… Neal Stephenson
“ That is the kind of beauty I was trying to get you to see, Orolo told me. Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defens… Neal Stephenson
“ So it's not an architectural masterpiece. When Da5id and Hiro and the other hackers wrote The Black Sun, they didn't have enough money to hire architects or designers, so they just went in for simple… Neal Stephenson
“ Shut up. For the rest of this conversation, you don't say anything. When I tell you what you did wrong, you don't say you're sorry, because I already know you're sorry. And when you drive outta here a… Neal Stephenson
“ She was going to get to stay alive. At the same time, she and the others got very little information from the planet, and had to piece things together from a jumble of clues. She'd compared notes on… Neal Stephenson
“ Shall we then say, like Newton, that all such truths are made arbitrarily by God? Shall we seek such truths in the occult? For if God has laid these rules down arbitrarily, then they are occult by nat… Neal Stephenson
“ Shaftoe opens his eyes just as the tarp is being peeled back from the open top of the truck. He stares straight up into a blue Italian sky torn around the edges by the scrabbling branches of desperate… Neal Stephenson
“ Our cultures used to be almost hereditary, but now we choose them from a menu as various as the food court of a suburban shopping mall. Ambition, curiosity, talent, sexuality or religion can draw us t… Neal Stephenson
“ On the social front it was a question of Amistics, which was a term that had been coined ages ago by a Moiran anthropologist to talk about the choices that different cultures made as to which technolo… Neal Stephenson
“ Nope. Look. The Raft is a media event. But in a much more profound, generalsense than you can possibly imagine.Huh?It's created by the media in that without the media, people wouldn't know itwas here,… Neal Stephenson
“ No surprises is the motto of the franchise ghetto, its Good Housekeeping seal, subliminally blazoned on every sign and logo that make up the curves and grids of light that outline the Basin. The peopl… Neal Stephenson
“ Natural Philosophy cannot advance without attacking theories that are old, and beating back new ones that are wrong, neither of which may be accomplished without doing some injury to their professors. Neal Stephenson
“ Leibniz’s most fundamental assumption, namely that the universe makes sense and that the human has the power to make sense of it and that, consequently, pure metaphysics is no waste of time, remains p… Neal Stephenson
“ Lagos, typically for a nonbusinessman, had a fatal flaw: he thought too small.He figured that with a little venture capital, this neurolinguistic hackingcould be developed as a new technology that wou… Neal Stephenson
“ It's, like, one of them drug dealer boats, Vic says, looking through his magic site. Five guys on it. Headed our way. He fires another round. Correction. Four guys on it. Boom. Correction, they're not… Neal Stephenson
“ It's time for him to get over into the right lanes where theretards and the bimbo boxes poke along, random, indecisive, looking at eachpassing franchise's driveway like they don't know if it's a promi… Neal Stephenson
“ It's ironic that Juanita has come into this place in a low-tech, black-and-whiteavatar. She was the one who figured out a way to make avatars show somethingclose to real emotion. That is a fact Hiro h… Neal Stephenson
“ It would be easier, Doob said, if I could figure out what the hell she wanted. You’re assuming, Luisa said, that she has a plan. I doubt that she does. She is driven to seek power. She finds some way… Neal Stephenson
