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
figuring fill gave job soldier
For example, there was the day he gave me the job of figuring out how many jellybeans it would take to fill up Soldier Field.
wrestling men winning
When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.
frustration boredom mask
Boredom is a mask frustration wears.
meditation everyday kabbalah
Most Kabbalists were theorists who were interested only in pure meditation. But there were so-called 'practical Kabbalists' who tried to apply the power of the Kabbalah in everyday life.
oxygen atmosphere trying
For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and besides, Jupiter's is much prettier. You may not realize its advantages until you're trying to breathe liquid methane.
clutter basements universe
A few dud universes can really clutter up your basement.
technology failing cases
It is commonly the case with technologies that you can get the best insight about how they work by watching them fail.
talent ability
Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.
annoying courses
Technically, of course, he was right. Socially, he was annoying us.
html world paper
This is exactly how the World Wide Web works: the HTML files are the pithy description on the paper tape, and your Web browser is Ronald Reagan.
our-world mind stories
The mind knows...that there is an action principle that governs how the world evolves from one moment to the next - that restricts our world's path to points that tell an internally consistent story.
operating-systems unix oral-history
Unix is not so much an operating system as an oral history.
hypocrisy republic virtue
If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy.
noise information looks
Well, all information looks like noise until you break the code.