Quotes About Stephenson

The commentary came from millions of idiots on the Internet.

atmosphere, but she connected them anyway, as well as a power cable. Then she reached back behind her, all the way down to

within the room, and then gales of laughter. The nacre

Again, redundant—as are 'flattering parasite' and the others.

Finally, in graphic novels and video games, SF is, of course, dominant.

remember that "layman" is just a polite word for "idiot.

anchored ships and over the shallow bar had been dangerous, but

L1, by process of elimination," Luisa said drily, and laughed. "You space people love to count down, I know your ways." "It's

All birds are bastards.

He thinks that there has been some routine polite conversation along the way, but there is never any point in actually monitoring that kind of thing.

but not subjecting him to the tiresome demands of polite social interaction.

The big red-handled blade switch on the wall of the mad-scientist lab.

the Sword fled, and would have vanished utterly if the Pope had not granted them refuge in the ranks of the Teutonic Knights.

black chariot of pepperoni fire.

they didn't even try to arrest her in a gentlemanly way.

KETCH, JACK: Name given to executioners.

Waterhouse is going to fix the church's organ. This project will be sure to have side benefits for his own organ, a single-pipe instrument that needs attention just as badly.

ENOCH ROUNDS THE CORNER JUST as the executioner raises the noose above the woman's head.

The rest is drowned out by sound breaking in through his earphones, coming in from Reality:

He nodded. "When the shutter opened to capture that first perfect image of the eclipse, magic ceased to function across all human societies.

he was a horse-fancier, and so this part of the anecdote was never related without many details concerning this horse's ancestry, which was more distinguished than that of most human beings)

Well, thank you for making it so clear why I should be miserable," Randy says forbearingly.

could jab my thumb with it and draw blood. The brown smear across the top of this page can be tested in any twenty-first-century DNA lab. Compare

He is flitting and hopping about in the lobby like a sparrow whose nest had just been blown down in a windstorm.