691 Quotes by Neal Stephenson

I am on an expense account that would blow your mind.

"The suspect had experienced a ballistic interlude earlier in the evening," Miss Pao said, "regrettably not filmed, and relieved himself of excess velocity by means of an ablative technique."

...your Web browser is Ronald Reagan.

Crappy old OSes have value in the basically negative sense that changing to new ones makes us wish we'd never been born.

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.

Emacs is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful.

Wired people should know something about wires.

We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your head that you keep humming all day until you spread it to someone else. Jokes. Urban legends. Crackpot religions. Marxism. No matter how smart we get, there is always this deep irrational part that makes us potential hosts for self-replicating information.

Clearly Mr. Drkh has had a long career of being the weirdest person in any given room, but he's about to go down in flames.