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
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want annoying shut-up
I don't even want you to nod, that's how much you annoy me. Just freeze and shut up.
smart people library
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.
pain men clothes
Constable Moore had reached the age when men can subject their bodies to the worst irritations - whisky, cigars, woolen clothes, bagpipes - without feeling a thing or, at least, without letting on.
badass self numbers
Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that he could trace his ancestry back up a long line of slightly less highly evolved stupendous badasses to that first self-replicating gizmo---which, given the number and variety of its descendants, might justifiably be described as the most stupendous badass of all time. Everyone and everything that wasn't a stupendous badass was dead.
speak form one-sentence
If you sincerely believed in God, how could you form one thought, speak one sentence, without mentioning Him?
kentucky judging noon
The hour of noon has passed,' said Judge Fang. 'Let us go and get some Kentucky Fried Chicken.
wagons buying stations
Can't you see that everyone is buying station wagons?
blow mind expenses
I am on an expense account that would blow your mind.
design software browsers
...your Web browser is Ronald Reagan.
design wish negative
Crappy old OSes have value in the basically negative sense that changing to new ones makes us wish we'd never been born.
morning sunday night
Hiro is a talented drifter. This is the kind of lifestyle that sounded romantic to him as recently as five years ago. But in the bleak light of full adulthood, which is to one's early twenties as Sunday morning is to Saturday night, he can clearly see what it really amounts to: He's broke and unemployed.
needs
It is what you don't expect... that most needs looking for.
thumbs alive saws
... when I saw any of those kinds of beauty I knew I was alive, and not just in the sense that when I hit my thumb with a hammer I knew I was alive, but rather in the sense that I was partaking of something--something was passing through me that it was in my nature to be a part of.
not-afraid
She's not afraid. She's wearing a dentata.