Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson
Neal Town Stephensonis an American writer and game designer known for his works of speculative fiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth31 October 1959
CountryUnited States of America
doe moral code
That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code.
country baby america
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.
four speed software
There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music movies microcode (software) high-speed pizza delivery
supposing-that ordinary relation
Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?
not-afraid
She's not afraid. She's wearing a dentata.
speak form one-sentence
If you sincerely believed in God, how could you form one thought, speak one sentence, without mentioning Him?
needs
It is what you don't expect... that most needs looking for.
years people gone
An old market had stood there until I'd been about six years old, when the authorities had renamed it the Olde Market, destroyed it, and built a new market devoted to selling T-shirts and other objects with pictures of the old market. Meanwhile, the people who had operated the little stalls in the old market had gone elsewhere and set up a thing on the edge of town that was now called the New Market even though it was actually the old market.
water together bombs
I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out there." There might as well be, "Arsibalt said, "but most of it gets spent on pornography, sugar water and bombs. There is only so much that can be scraped together for particle accelerators.
use might processors
I use emacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor.
important hem way
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.
way conversation best-way
The best way to know someone is to have a conversation with them.
writing hacking fiction
What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's deciding what to write.
cells people brain
All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or something, and we'll latch onto anything that'll fill that niche for us.