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Neal Stephenson Quotes

Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty year old men feel decrepit Picture Quote #1

class is more than income - it has to do with knowing where you stand in a web of social relationships Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Constable Moore had reached the age when men can subject their bodies to the worst irritations - whiskey, cigars, woolen clothes, bagpipes - without feeling a thing or, at least, without letting on Picture Quote #1

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Many a ship's officer, caught in a storm or battle, and seized by a natural tendency to freeze up in terror, was moved to action by the vivid helplessness of his crew Picture Quote #1

A scattering of schizophrenic first worlders who have long ago burned their brains to ash in the radiant heat of their own imaginings Picture Quote #1

There is a certain kind of small town that grows like a boil on the ass of every Army base in the world Picture Quote #1

It is exciting to discover electrons and figure out the equations that govern their movement; it is boring to use those principles to design electric can openers. From here on out, it’s all can openers Picture Quote #1

It is commonly the case with technologies that you can get the best insight about how they work by watching them fail Picture Quote #1

As convenient as it is for information to come to us, libraries do have a valuable side effect: they force all of the smart people to come together in one place where they can interact with one another Picture Quote #1

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When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins Picture Quote #1

I don’t even want you to nod, that’s how much you annoy me. Just freeze and shut up Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Lawrence immediately saw that it was a trick question. You would have to be some kind of idiot to make the facile assumption that the current would add or subtract 5 miles per hour to or from the speed of the boat Picture Quote #1

So, you’re worried that a pink dragon will fly over the concent and fart nerve gas on us? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all Picture Quote #1

Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time Picture Quote #1

What’s hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it’s deciding what to write Picture Quote #1

He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that the surest way to shock most people, in those days, was to believe that some kinds of behavior were bad and others good, and that it was reasonable to live one’s life accordingly Picture Quote #1

Leibniz is at the disadvantage of not having seen it. Or perhaps we should count this as an advantage, for anyone who sees it is dumbfounded by the brilliance of the geometry, and it is difficult to criticize a man’s work when you are down on your knees shielding your eyes Picture Quote #1

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Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty year old men feel decrepit (Neal Stephenson Quotes) class is more than income - it has to do with knowing where you stand in a web of social relationships (Neal Stephenson Quotes) 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 Quotes) This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination (Neal Stephenson Quotes) 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 Quotes) Constable Moore had reached the age when men can subject their bodies to the worst irritations - whiskey, cigars, woolen clothes, bagpipes - without feeling a thing or, at least, without letting on (Neal Stephenson Quotes) Many a ship's officer, caught in a storm or battle, and seized by a natural tendency to freeze up in terror, was moved to action by the vivid helplessness of his crew (Neal Stephenson Quotes) A scattering of schizophrenic first worlders who have long ago burned their brains to ash in the radiant heat of their own imaginings (Neal Stephenson Quotes) There is a certain kind of small town that grows like a boil on the ass of every Army base in the world (Neal Stephenson Quotes) It is exciting to discover electrons and figure out the equations that govern their movement; it is boring to use those principles to design electric can openers. From here on out, it’s all can openers (Neal Stephenson Quotes) It is commonly the case with technologies that you can get the best insight about how they work by watching them fail (Neal Stephenson Quotes) As convenient as it is for information to come to us, libraries do have a valuable side effect: they force all of the smart people to come together in one place where they can interact with one another (Neal Stephenson Quotes) When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins (Neal Stephenson Quotes) I don’t even want you to nod, that’s how much you annoy me. Just freeze and shut up (Neal Stephenson Quotes) 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 Quotes) Lawrence immediately saw that it was a trick question. You would have to be some kind of idiot to make the facile assumption that the current would add or subtract 5 miles per hour to or from the speed of the boat (Neal Stephenson Quotes) So, you’re worried that a pink dragon will fly over the concent and fart nerve gas on us? (Neal Stephenson Quotes) 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 Quotes) And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all (Neal Stephenson Quotes) Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time (Neal Stephenson Quotes) What’s hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it’s deciding what to write (Neal Stephenson Quotes) He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that the surest way to shock most people, in those days, was to believe that some kinds of behavior were bad and others good, and that it was reasonable to live one’s life accordingly (Neal Stephenson Quotes) Leibniz is at the disadvantage of not having seen it. Or perhaps we should count this as an advantage, for anyone who sees it is dumbfounded by the brilliance of the geometry, and it is difficult to criticize a man’s work when you are down on your knees shielding your eyes (Neal Stephenson Quotes)

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