It will always come to the biggest entity who they assume has the biggest pockets.


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JACK STEPHENSON
I think our guys kind of got where we played to keep from losing than playing to win. But it showed ...
JACK STEPHENSON
Magical?" "Non." "Magnificent?" "Don't be absurd." "Less bleak than anything else we have seen?" "No...
NEAL STEPHENSON
This is a very exciting time for us. And the pickup on the [growth] curve is still ahead of us.
HUGO STEPHENSON
This is a very exciting time for us. And the pickup on the (growth) curve is still ahead of us.
HUGO STEPHENSON
Don Donald was clearly accustomed to addressing people whose only way of responding was to nod worsh...
NEAL STEPHENSON
He had come home late with take-out Thai and slammed into the sofa and tried to watch a movie, but k...
NEAL STEPHENSON
Maybe we should go back and get their guns,” Marlon suggested. “That’s how it would work in a ...
NEAL STEPHENSON
Not that any of the sysadmin’s knowledge and skills were applicable here.

The psycholog...
NEAL STEPHENSON
Other bits of England might be cramped, crowded, and cluttered, but only because all the available s...
NEAL STEPHENSON
She definitely heard the words for airplane and airport, which delighted some little-girl part of he...
NEAL STEPHENSON
There was no way that these guys were going to let a bleeding, barefoot woman simply wander off alon...
NEAL STEPHENSON
Most of the people around the entrance were, of course, bellhops and taxi drivers. Guests went in an...
NEAL STEPHENSON
And so what moved him onward and down the office building’s stairway was not any sort of foolish h...
NEAL STEPHENSON
It was then that she cut him off in midsentence and said that it was over. She said it with a certai...
NEAL STEPHENSON
What he wasn't so good at was manipulating the internal states of other humans, getting them to see ...
NEAL STEPHENSON
There are always fuckups, and there is always a goat. Sometimes the goat is you.
NEAL STEPHENSON
Richard's ex-girlfriends were long gone, but their voices followed him all the time and spoke to him...
NEAL STEPHENSON
It gave them something to do and it took their mind off the way Yuxia was driving, which, had they p...
NEAL STEPHENSON
Men wanted to be strong. One way to be strong was to be knowledgeable. In so many areas, it was not ...
NEAL STEPHENSON
The opening screen of T'Rain was a frank rip-off of what you saw when you booted up Google Earth. Ri...
NEAL STEPHENSON
Apparently these three had left half of the surviving population of China seriously pissed off at th...
NEAL STEPHENSON
Waging war on his enemies had been Sokolov’s habit and his profession for a long time, but being c...
NEAL STEPHENSON
This was probably rooted in a belief that had been inculcated to him from the get-go: that there was...
NEAL STEPHENSON
That, as far as she could tell, was the purpose of the religion she had been brought up in: it made ...
NEAL STEPHENSON
How could your cover be blown in Canada? Why even bother going dark there? How could you tell?
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 ...
NEAL STEPHENSON
In a manner familiar to anyone who had ever packed a car for a family trip, genial confusion gave wa...
NEAL STEPHENSON
...he was fascinated by the mid-western/middle American phenomenon of recombinant cuisine. Rice Kris...
NEAL STEPHENSON
Humans needed water or they would die, but dirty water killed as surely as thirst. You had to boil i...
NEAL STEPHENSON