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Neal Stephenson Quotes

Neal Stephenson quotes

American Writer October 31, 1959

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She definitely heard the words for airplane and airport, which delighted some little-girl part of her soul (“Yay, going on a trip!”) even as her higher brain was ticking off all the bad things that could happen when men like Jones came into proximity with jet aircraft. Neal Stephenson
But then, Cap'n Crunch in a flake form would be suicidal madness; it would last about as long, when immersed in milk, as snowflakes sifting down into a deep fryer. No, the cereal engineers at General Mills had to find a shape that would minimize surface area, and, as some sort of compromise between the sphere that is dictated by Euclidean geometry and whatever sunken treasure related shapes that the cereal aestheticians were probably clamoring for, they came up with this hard -to-pin-down... Neal Stephenson
Most of the brain's work is done while the brain's owner is ostensibly thinking about something else, so sometimes you have to deliberately find something else to think and talk about. Neal Stephenson
Like a couple of peasants huddled together in the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Jack and Eliza performed their role in the Mass and then departed, leaving no sign that they’d ever been there, save perhaps for an evanescent ripple in the coursing tide of quicksilver. Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson quote: "for now, none of the lights are on and that's all there is,..."
for now, none of the lights are on and that's all there is, black steel and slate sky. Neal Stephenson
Humans needed water or they would die, but dirty water killed as surely as thirst. You had to boil it before you drank it. This culture around tea was a way of tiptoeing along the knife edge between those two ways of dying. Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson quote: "Two tires fly. Two Wail. A bamboo grove, all chopped down...."
Two tires fly. Two Wail. A bamboo grove, all chopped down. From it, warring songs. Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson quote: "The world is full of power and energy and a person can go far..."
The world is full of power and energy and a person can go far by just skimming off a tiny bit of it. Neal Stephenson
The Deliverator's car has enough potential energy packed into its batteries to fire a pound of bacon into the Asteroid Belt. Unlike a bimbo box or a Burb beater, the Deliverator's car unloads that power through gaping, gleaming, polished, sphincters. When the Deliverator puts the hammer down, shit happens. Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson quote: "This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds..."
This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination. Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson quote: "Really, he has only two emotions: sleeping and adrenaline..."
Really, he has only two emotions: sleeping and adrenaline overdrive. Neal Stephenson
What if the places you went and the things you encountered in your work were more interesting than what was available in the physical world around you? Neal Stephenson
Not that any of the sysadmin’s knowledge and skills were applicable here. The psychological stance was the thing: the implicit faith, a little naive and a little cocky, that by banging his head against the problem for long enough he’d be able to break through in the end. Neal Stephenson
Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight. Neal Stephenson
Most of the people around the entrance were, of course, bellhops and taxi drivers. Guests went in and out. Some were dressed in business suits, others in casual tourist attire. He did not see any commandos in tracksuits. Neal Stephenson

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