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Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.
— Neal Stephenson
The same kind of Diefenbachia that Grandmother Waterhouse used to have growing on the counter in her downstairs bathroom.
— Neal Stephenson
Now there are many Shaftoes - mostly in Tennessee - but the Shaftoe family tree still fits on a cross-stitch sampler.
— Neal Stephenson
What, not coins in the bank? Does your purse hang as flaccid as a gelding's scrotum?
— Neal Stephenson
How slow can a mammal be and still have respiratory functions?
— Neal Stephenson
His idea of a satisfying outdoor experience had been to saunter out onto the terrace of a European hotel to smoke cigars and drink brandy.
— Neal Stephenson
Why would that cause him to pack up his bolt, chord, and sphere, and hurry to Ecba, of all places?
— Neal Stephenson
The byproduct of the lifestyle is polluted rivers, greenhouse effect, spouse abuse, televangelists, and serial killers.
— Neal Stephenson
This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.
— Neal Stephenson
Any property that's open to common use gets destroyed. Because everyone has incentive to use it to the max, but no one has incentive to maintain it.
— Neal Stephenson
In the Metaverse, Hiro Protagonist is a warrior prince.
— Neal Stephenson
Fighting isn't about knowing how," Ty said. "It's about deciding to.
— Neal Stephenson
The meeting would later be known as the Council of the Seven Eves.
— Neal Stephenson
If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy.
— Neal Stephenson
Maybe that's how great warriors do it. Carelessly, not wracking their minds with the consequences.
— Neal Stephenson
As I walked back over the bridge, I thought that of all the people I'd talked to today, I was probably the least content in my situation.
— Neal Stephenson
She knew how to use her own ignorance as an icebreaker in conversations.
— Neal Stephenson
Markus's mind jumped straight to the most obvious explanation: Is the president nuking people again?
— Neal Stephenson
Do you reject the glamor of Evil, and refuse to be mastered by it?
— Neal Stephenson
If no one is barfing, then none of us is likely to die, at least over a time span of weeks.
— Neal Stephenson
The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.
— Neal Stephenson
It seems now clear that a belief in the functional importance of all enzymes found in bacteria is possible only to those richly endowed with Faith.
— Marjory Stephenson
Fraa Jad took the garment from me and discovered how the fly worked. "Topology is destiny," he said, and put the drawers on.
— Neal Stephenson
Two days later a Scout simply disappeared without explanation, possibly the victim of a micrometeoroid, or even of suicide.
— Neal Stephenson
Maybe this was all down to some supernatural effect, such as grace, that flowed through people's lives even if they didn't understand why.
— Neal Stephenson
Gratitude and obedience. At The Frogs, the relationship between a knight and the people was clearly understood.
— Neal Stephenson
It had been a hell of a long time since he had been reduced to hiding behind a tree, and he did not view it as much of a professional achievement.
— Neal Stephenson
You should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake' ...
— Neal Stephenson
Is it a virus, a drug, or a religion ... What's the difference
— Neal Stephenson
This Snow Crash thingis it a virus, a drug, or a religion?"
Juanita shrugs. "What's the difference? — Neal Stephenson
The sun shafted in and made her eyes glow, picking out glints of yellow in irises that were mostly green and brown.
— Neal Stephenson
We are all in trouble ... with a bunch of dead people.
— Neal Stephenson
Is dangerous, I know, to take ride from strangers. With assault rifle in backpack, not so dangerous.
— Neal Stephenson
Added. Apparently a mere two-cab caravan was not enough to trigger Ariane's anxieties, and so the one carrying
— Neal Stephenson
heliocentric orbits, come too close to the sun's heat
— Neal Stephenson
These women stared out from the canvases with arched brows, enormous eyes and tiny mouths, seeing much, and saying little.
— Neal Stephenson
She's in shock. Keep her head low and her legs high,
— Neal Stephenson
Is this some exercise in keeping a straight face?
— Neal Stephenson
Even the God of the New Testament is not as forgiving as the consumer credit system.
— Neal Stephenson
Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment.
— Neal Stephenson
So, you're worried that a pink dragon will fly over the concent and fart nerve gas on us?
— Neal Stephenson
If someone tells you, "You can't" they really mean, "I can't."
— Sean Stephenson
When the Deliverator puts the hammer down, shit happens.
— Neal Stephenson
Get where?" Yul demanded.
— Neal Stephenson
But what little I'd heard had left me amazed by how clever people were at finding ways to make each other crazy and miserable.
— Neal Stephenson
And she went on in this vein for a minute or two; she could talk about alloys the way some girls talked about shoes.
— Neal Stephenson
Like any librarian in Reality, this daemon can move around without audible footfalls.
— Neal Stephenson
Class is more than income - it has to do with knowing where you stand in a web of social relationships.
— Neal Stephenson
She just didn't think it decent to live in a place where there were no coffee shops to have breakfast in when she woke up,
— Neal Stephenson
I feared he might be trying to grow a beard again.
— Neal Stephenson
There followed one of those comical interludes in which the jihadists were confused about what to do next and fell to bitter recriminations.
— Neal Stephenson
Psychical confidence is the external expression of our internal state of confidence. In simpler terms, it is how confidence looks and sounds.
— Sean Stephenson
Princess Nell had to reconstruct them, learning the language, which was extremely pithy and made heavy use of parentheses.
— Neal Stephenson
Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
— Pamela Stephenson
Of persons I will say this: it is difficult to tell when they are running aright but easy to see when something has gone awry.
— Neal Stephenson
I am on an expense account that would blow your mind.
— Neal Stephenson
Well, 'vacuum with a sparse dusting of probability waves' is an accurate description of just about everything in the universe,
— Neal Stephenson
Gold is the corpse of value...
— Neal Stephenson
Plane-change maneuvers are expensive.
— Neal Stephenson
Where combination is possible, competition is impossible.
— George Stephenson
The world is full of power and energy and a person can go far by just skimming off a tiny bit of it.
— Neal Stephenson
I truly believe that our major social ills would disappear if we just spent our lives perfecting the art of connecting with each other.
— Sean Stephenson
Anything is possible if you get off your 'BUT' and STAND!
— Sean Stephenson
The human race might be about to disappear, but not before putting on a two-year frenzy of recreational sex.
— Neal Stephenson
At this point in their lives, neither one of them is important enough to kill, kidnap, or interrogate.
— Neal Stephenson
encircling a large new habitat called Akureyri,
— Neal Stephenson
Swords don't run out of ammo," Hiro shouts.
— Neal Stephenson
All the people saying mean things about me on the Internet are gonna be dead in four hundred and thirty-three days," she said, deadpan.
— Neal Stephenson
Like a handful of nickels in a batch of bread dough this could be kneaded from place to place but never removed.
— Neal Stephenson
After about three billion years of this sometimes zany, frequently tedious fugue of carnality and carnage,
— Neal Stephenson
Bach's Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor
— Neal Stephenson
So far I have felt like a very inept slapstick performer." "Inept slapstick? Isn't that a bit redundant?
— Neal Stephenson
He is just your type," Uncle Meng said gently. "Please, do try not to fuck him.""How come it's okay for James Bond? — Neal Stephenson
In the wilderness, only the most terrible beasts of prey cavort and gambol. Deer and rabbits play no games.
— Neal Stephenson
Y'know, watching government regulators trying to keep up with the world is my favorite sport.
— Neal Stephenson
Or a Moonie festival or something.
— Neal Stephenson
every pirate and privateer has lurking within him the soul of an accountant. Though some would say 'tis the other way round.
— Neal Stephenson
They made data a controlled substance.
— Neal Stephenson
The lesson of the Internet is that no audience is too small.
— Randall L. Stephenson
Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?
— Neal Stephenson
They were a bit like English taverns, which had effigies instead of names, so that people like Jack, who could not read, could know them.
— Neal Stephenson
Any event largely organized by elementary school teachers was likely to come off extremely well from a logistical and crowd-control standpoint.
— Neal Stephenson
The terminator - not the robotic assassin of moviedom, but the line between night and day through which our planet incessantly rotates.
— Neal Stephenson
We are just proceeding adaptively to leverage our core competencies.
— Neal Stephenson
There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.
— Pamela Stephenson
Technically, of course, he was right. Socially, he was annoying us.
— Neal Stephenson
As nightmarishly lethal, memetically programmed death-machines went, these were the nicest you could ever hope to meet.
— Neal Stephenson
The best way to know someone is to have a conversation with them.
— Neal Stephenson
Being in one's 50s is a powerful time.
— Pamela Stephenson
Their openness would probably be career suicide in the atmosphere of Byzantine court-eunuch intrigue that is public life in the United States today.
— Neal Stephenson
No linear indexing system is adequate to express the multi-dimensionality of knowledge," Dr. Waterhouse reminds him.
— Neal Stephenson
The ability to make judgments, to believe things, is the entire point of having a culture. I
— Neal Stephenson
It is early in November of 1942 and a simply unbelievable amount of shit is going on, all at once, everywhere.
— Neal Stephenson
Penetrates your iris, tenderest of sphincters,
— Neal Stephenson