“ Markus’s mind jumped straight to the most obvious explanation: Is the president nuking people again? Neal Stephenson
“ In your Primer you have a resource that will make you highly educated, but it will never make you intelligent. That comes from life. Your life up to this point has given you all the experience you nee… Neal Stephenson
“ I hate e-mail, John says. Harvard Li stares him in the eye for a while. What do you mean? The concept is good. The execution is poor. People don’t observe any security precautions. A message arrives c… Neal Stephenson
“ How could your cover be blown in Canada? Why even bother going dark there? How could you tell? Neal Stephenson
“ …he stands there reading statistics about his own death even as it’s happening to him. Very post-modern. Neal Stephenson
“ Ymir, Luisa said, pronouncing it as she’d heard Sean do: ee-meer. A word from Norse mythology referring to primordial ice giants. Sean’s code name for a particular hunk of ice that his project had ide… Neal Stephenson
“ World-class cereal-eating is a dance of fine compromises. The giant heaping bowl of sodden cereal, awash in milk, is the mark of the novice. Ideally one wants the bone-dry cereal nuggets and the cryog… Neal Stephenson
“ Why is the Deliverator so equipped? Because people rely on him. He is a role model. This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a… Neal Stephenson
“ Why do they believe that? Because we are hackers, Csongor said, and they have seen movies. Neal Stephenson
“ Well, I am not fully convinced that I really need this, Randy says. We all need to decide that question for ourselves, says Avi. Neal Stephenson
“ They were planning some sort of real estate development on the edge of the city—probably on that few acres of pasture out back of the Waterhouse residence. They would put up town-houses around the edg… Neal Stephenson
“ They were like three-year olds who shove pencils in their ears, discover that it hurts, and stop doing it. Lawrence’s first year went by almost instantly. Time just blazed by. Nowhere could be sunnier… Neal Stephenson
“ The hour of noon has passed,' said Judge Fang. 'Let us go and get some Kentucky Fried Chicken. Neal Stephenson
“ Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being? Neal Stephenson
