“ Each breaker, she supposed, was as unique as a human soul. Each made its own run up onto the shore, being the very embodiment of vigor and power at the start. But each slowed, spread thin, faltered, d… Neal Stephenson
“ Dinah said, Ivy, you want to take this or should I? I’ll do it. You’re busy, Ivy said. Dinah could hear her twisting around in the pilot’s seat to look at Julia. She spoke as follows: Julia. Shut up.… Neal Stephenson
“ Desktops encourage the use of paper, which is archaic and reflects inadequate team spirit. What is so special about your work that you have to write it down on a piece of paper that only you get to se… Neal Stephenson
“ Crying loudly is childish, in that it reflects a belief, on the cryer’s part, that someone is around to hear the noise, and come a-running to make it all better. Crying in absolute silence, as Daniel… Neal Stephenson
“ Constable Moore had reached the age when men can subject their bodies to the worst irritations - whiskey, cigars, woolen clothes, bagpipes - without feeling a thing or, at least, without letting on. Neal Stephenson
“ Consciousness amplifies the weak signals that, like cobwebs spun between trees, web Narratives together. Moreover, it amplifies them selectively and in that way creates feedback loops that steer the N… Neal Stephenson
“ Computers rely on the one and the zero to represent all things. This distinction between something and nothing—this pivotal separation between being and nonbeing—is quite fundamental and underlies man… Neal Stephenson
“ CRACKING A WHIP MADE OF SMALL ROBOTS JOINED END TO END into a long, flexible chain was neither an especially bad nor an especially good way of engaging a foe in ambot-based combat. Extensive studies c… Neal Stephenson
“ But blasting the drummer into the river, though it would have been easy at this range, was not a good way to be inconspicuous. Neal Stephenson
“ Bulshytt: (1) In Fluccish of the late Praxic Age and early Reconstitution, a derogatory term for false speech in general, esp. knowing and deliberate falsehood or obfuscation. (2) In Orth, a more tech… Neal Stephenson
“ Better take her uniform -- all that gear, the second MetaCop suggests, notunlewdly.The manager looks at Y.T., trying not to let his gaze travel sinfully up anddown her body. For thousands of years his… Neal Stephenson
“ Babel is a Biblical term for Babylon. The word is Semitic; Bab means gate and El means Cod, so Babel means 'Gate of God.' But it is probably also somewhat onomatopoeic, imitating someonewho speaks in… Neal Stephenson
“ As Hiro crests the pass on his motorcycle at five in the morning, the town of Port Sherman, Oregon, is suddenly laid out before him: a flash of yellow loglo wrapped into a vast U-shaped valley that wa… Neal Stephenson
“ And Türing answered another, Rudy said. Who’s that? It’s me, Alan said. But Rudy’s joking. ‘Turing’ doesn’t really have an umlaut in it. He’s going to have an umlaut in him later tonight, Rudy said, l… Neal Stephenson
“ And I tell you straight out: suspicious this makes me, for what is the cause to bring magic back when it has been replaced by something clearly more serviceable? So the first riddle I put my mind to w… Neal Stephenson
“ Algunos dicen que la bipolaridad es una adaptación útil. Cuando las cosas van mal, te deprimes, te retiras, conservas energía. Cuando las cosas van bien, te mueves con gran energía. —¿Y Neal Stephenson
“ A string of ones and zeroes was not a difficult thing for Bill Gates to distribute, once he’d thought of the idea. The hard part was selling it—reassuring customers that they were actually getting som… Neal Stephenson
“ A speech with magical force. Nowadays, people don't believe in these kinds of things. Except in the Metaverse, that is, where magic is possible. The Metaverse is a fictional structure made out of code… Neal Stephenson
“ A more down-to-earth project run by the Soviets had determined that eight square meters of algae—an expanse of pond scum about the size of two ping-pong tables—was needed to keep a single human suppli… Neal Stephenson
“ A man dressed in a radiant white uniform stands below the ragged maw of the jetway holding his hands downwards with fluorescent orange sticks in them, like Christ dispensing mercy on a world of sinner… Neal Stephenson
