Neal Stephenson

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

There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music movies microcode (software) high-speed pizza delivery ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#movies

A few dud universes can really clutter up your basement. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#philosophy #humor

They went inside. The young ones shuffled to a stop as their ironic sensibilities, which served them in lieu of souls, were jammed by a signal of overwhelming power. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#generations #humor #humor

If money is a science, then it is a dark science...it has gone on developing...by its own rules ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#money

. . . if money is a science, then it is a dark science, darker than alchemy. It split away from Natural Philosophy millennia ago, and has gone on developing ever since, by its own rules. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#money

...he liked his transcendence out in plain sight where he could keep an eye on it -- say, in a nice stained-glass window -- not woven through the fabric of life like gold threads through a brocade. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#age

He parks in the far corner of the lot, explaining that it is more logical to do this and then walk for fifteen seconds than it is to spend fifteen minutes looking for a closer space. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#parking #life

Debbie insisted on following the rhythm of the waves. Typical duck-squeezer sex: slow, frustrating, in-tune with nature. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#nature

The curt maneuver forced hearty laughter from all of the fathers in the ballroom, who were delighted by the illusion of danger and the impotence of Nature. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#age