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“Most countries are static, all 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 book Snow Crash

Source: Snow Crash

“See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places”

Neal Stephenson book Snow Crash

Source: Snow Crash

“Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.”

Neal Stephenson book Cryptonomicon

Source: Cryptonomicon

“The difference between stupid and intelligent people – and this is true whether or not they are well-educated – is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.”

Neal Stephenson

Source: The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

“She's a woman, you're a dude. You're notto understand her. That'swhat she's after…. She doesn't want you to understand. She knowsimpossible. She just wants you to understand. Everything else is negotiable.”

Neal Stephenson book Snow Crash

Source: Snow Crash

“Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.”

Neal Stephenson book Anathem

Source: Anathem

“When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.”

Neal Stephenson book Snow Crash

Source: Snow Crash

“To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.”

Neal Stephenson book Snow Crash

Source: Snow Crash

“Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window.”

Neal Stephenson book Quicksilver

Source: Quicksilver

“Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defense against the ugliness that will hem you in and come at you in so many ways.”

Neal Stephenson book Anathem

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Source: Anathem (2008)

“It was, of course, nothing more than sexism, the especially virulent type espoused by male techies who sincerely believe that they are too smart to be sexists.”

Neal Stephenson book Snow Crash

Source: Snow Crash

“I don't even want you to nod, that's how much you annoy me. Just freeze and shut up.”

Neal Stephenson book Snow Crash

Source: Snow Crash

“Boredom is a mask frustration wears.”

Neal Stephenson book Anathem

Source: Anathem

“Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.”

Neal Stephenson book Quicksilver

Source: Quicksilver

“The full cosmos consists of the physical stuffconsciousness. Take away consciousness and it's only dust; add consciousness and you get things, ideas, and time.”

Neal Stephenson book Anathem

Source: Anathem

“That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code.”

Neal Stephenson

Source: The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

“This made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of tiresome burdens such as educating people and doing research.”

Neal Stephenson book Cryptonomicon

Source: Cryptonomicon

“This Snow Crash thing--is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?”

Juanita shrugs. “What's the difference?”

Neal Stephenson book Snow Crash

Source: Snow Crash