Quotes About Neal Stephenson

That's the bad news." "Okay, and what is the good news?" "All the people saying mean things about me on the Internet are gonna be dead in four hundred and thirty-three days," she said, deadpan.

encircling a large new habitat called Akureyri

Get this one a copy of the Cryptonomicon. And a desk—as close to the coffee machine as possible. And why don't you promote the son of a bitch as long as you're at it.

Says right here you are gung-ho." "Sir, yes sir!" "What the hell does that mean?" "Sir, it is a Chinese word! There's a Communist there, name of Mao, and he's got an army. We tangled with 'em on more'n one occasion, sir. Gung-ho is their battle cry, it means 'all together' or something like that, so after we got done kicking the crap out of them, sir, we stole it from them, sir!

until recently, he had been sustaining a fairly credible cover story about being a peaceful wine merchant in Cradle.

You heard of Mary Jane?" Root asks. Shaftoe—role model, leader of men—stifles the impulse to say, Heard of her? I've fucked her!

vast house farms out in the loglo wilderness, a culture medium for a medium culture.

The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallowed subcategory. He's got esprit up to here.

It concerns your woman." "Abigail?" "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!

And then there's The Enforcers—but they cost a lot and don't take well to supervision. It is rumored that, under their uniforms, they wear T-shirts bearing the unofficial Enforcer coat of arms: a fist holding a nightstick, emblazoned with the words SUE ME.

the basic premise of Eutropianism is that technology has made us post-human. That Homo sapiens plus technology is effectively a whole new species: immortal, omnipresent because of the Net, and headed towards omnipotence. Now, the first people to talk that way were libertarians.

Wiener dog underwent explosive decompression, scared a baby.

music movies microcode (software) high-speed pizza delivery The Deliverator used to make

our revenue. Our delivery people— "Deliverators." I shifted in the beanbag. "What?" "Deliverators. That's what we're calling them now. Clever right? I thought up the term." "I thought Neal Stephenson did." "Who?" "He's a writer. He wrote Snow Crash." "And that's, what, a Frozen sequel?