Quotes by : Neal Stephenson

How slow can a mammal be and still have respiratory functions?

Talent was not rare the ability to survive having it was. (Enoch Root observes six-year-old Isaac Newton)....

Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could....

An old market had stood there until I'd been about six years old, when the authorities had renamed it....

I don’t think that teenagers are the way they are because of their age. It’s because they have nothing....

There was no room for dust devils in the laws of physics, as least in the rigid form in which they were....

Dr. Turing of Cambridge says that the soul is an illusion and that all that defines us as human beings....

Unix is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture.....

See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can....

I just saved your fucking life, Mom. . . . You could at least offer me an Oreo.