Quotes About Community

For like a lot of young Moirans, Kath Two didn't even try to establish a fixed home. With a home came a social circle, and perhaps a family.

Eventually the visitors were treated to a thoroughly non-ironic dinner at an Applebee's.

I get it," Richard said. "But is that all we are? Just digital Crips and Bloods?

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 geometric shapes. The avatars milling around the entrance don't seem to care.

People are my books," Ty said. "But I did bring a couple, in case the people all go to sleep.

Gratitude and obedience. At The Frogs, the relationship between a knight and the people was clearly understood.

Or a Moonie festival or something.

It's a wonderful thing to be clever, and you should never think otherwise, and you should never stop being that way. But what you learn, as you get older, is that there are a few billion other people in the world all trying to be clever at the same time, and whatever you do with your life will certainly be lost—swallowed up in the ocean—unless you are doing it along with like-minded people who will remember your contributions and carry them forward.

realizes that this is just like life must be for about 99 percent of the people in the world. You're in this place. There's other people all around you, but they don't understand you and you don't understand them, but people do a lot of pointless babbling anyway.

That was his youngest. Hadley, the girl in the middle, was in Berkeley; she'd been doing volunteer work for an organization in Oakland and had a lot of free time.

All these beefy Caucasians with guns! Get enough of them together, looking for the America they always believed they'd grow up in, and they glom together like overcooked rice, form integral, starchy little units.

THE LAY OF WALMART TRANSLATOR'S NOTE: "The Lay of Walmart" comprises two parts. Handwriting analysis confirms that both were written by the same author, self-identified as Tóki Olafsson, a skald

Put … the troll … down … and slowly back away.

had led him into the business of small-town marijuana dealing, which must have seemed dark and dangerous at the time, but that now, in these days of crystal meth, seemed as wholesome as running a lemonade stand.

Like any place in Reality, the Street is subject to development. Developers can build their own small streets feeding off of the main one.

class is more than income—it has to do with knowing where you stand in a web of social relationships.

Neal Stephenson

In the way of neighbors, it at first had nothing but rubble and worn-out robots

It is the hardest thing in the world to make educated Westerners pull together

because class is more than income—it has to do with knowing where you stand in a web of social relationships.

obviously Huguenots

No intelligent person in Blue believes that, of course.

he has come to understand the culture for what it is: a system of etiquette within which it becomes possible for groups of men to live together for years, travel to the ends of the earth, and do all kinds of incredibly weird shit without killing each other or completely losing their minds in the process.

Csongor played in a hockey league that appeared to supply 90 percent of his needs in the way of both exercise and companionship