Neal Stephenson

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

— Neal Stephenson

#humor

I just saved your fucking life, Mom. . . . You could at least offer me an Oreo. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#life

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

— Neal Stephenson

#snow #snow

This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#guns

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

— Neal Stephenson

#snow

To condense fact from the vapor of nuance. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#snow

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

#kindlehighlight

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

#humor #education

Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being? ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#god #gender

He turns off the techno-shit in his goggles. All it does is confuse him; he stands there reading statistics about his own death even as it's happening to him. Very post-modern. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#science-fiction #sf #death