Quotes About Neal Stephenson

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

My colleague Bruce Sterling has defined a thriller as a science fiction novel that includes the President of the United States. If you agree with Bruce's definition, the size of the SF market suddenly becomes very much larger.

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

The account presented below is patterned after the work of Christia Mercer of Columbia University. Her book Leibniz's Metaphysics: Its Origins and Development, published in 2001 by Cambridge University Press, is a formidable work of forensic scholarship that can in no way be improved by my attempts to summarize

Kim smiled. "Would I give you the satisfaction of seeing that?

Magnus is ludicrously hyper-masculine in ways that have been bred and trained out of modern-day men and so they have to deprecate his intelligence.

The real battle was, you know, on the Internet. Social media.

He was a tiny guy, deeply embedded in a leather chair, like a mouse in a baseball mitt.

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

KETCH, JACK: Name given to executioners.

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

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

Your broker is a half-naked blue-and-orange crypto-anarchist?

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

What the fuck do you want? Y.T., I'm sorry about this. But something's going on. Something big time. I'm keeping one eye on a big biker named Raven. The problem with you hackers is you never stop working. That's what a hacker is, Hiro says.

As it happened, what actually brought the cost of graphics hardware down was videogames—in particular Doom, which came out the year after Snow Crash was published.

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

Markus came back on the air. "Jiro and Dinah, you must be ready to fire the main propulsion at apogee—

Are you really going to ask them?!" Sonar exclaimed. "Nah. As an ancient saying has it, it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

His job on TV was to explain science to the general public and, as such, to act as a lightning rod for people who could not accept all the things that science implied about their worldview and their way of life, and who showed a kind of harebrained ingenuity in finding ways to refute it.

Hamlet's a dull fuck of a story where a fellow stands around lamenting how useless he is even to his own self, and then there's one pansy swordfight and it's over. The only good part of that is what he nicked from Kit's Dido.

added. Apparently a mere two-cab caravan was not enough to trigger Ariane's anxieties, and so the one carrying

She is in a house not thirty miles from here…a house that is for the time being unguarded, as the proprietor has been locked up in the Tower of London. How fortuitous, Sergeant!

Academics being no less nomadic than Congregational preachers, he took work where he could find it. He became a Professor of Greek and Latin at