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
Neal Stephenson quotes about
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.
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.
supposing-that ordinary relation
Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?
dragons nerves worried
So, you're worried that a pink dragon will fly over the concent and fart nerve gas on us?
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.
not-afraid
She's not afraid. She's wearing a dentata.