See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can...
NEAL STEPHENSON Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he c...
NEAL STEPHENSON Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to ...
NEAL STEPHENSON From long experience in places like Afghanisatan and Chechnya, Sokolov recognised, in the black jiha...
NEAL STEPHENSON Nell did not imagine that Constable Moore wanted to get into a detailed discussion of recent events,...
NEAL STEPHENSON She's a woman, you're a dude. You're not supposed to understand her. That's not what s...
NEAL STEPHENSON They went inside. The young ones shuffled to a stop as their ironic sensibilities, which served them...
NEAL STEPHENSON The full cosmos consists of the physical stuff and consciousness. Take away consciousness and...
NEAL STEPHENSON Gold is the corpse of value...
NEAL STEPHENSON The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has...
NEAL STEPHENSON For example, there was the day he gave me the job of figuring out how many jelly beans it would take...
NEAL STEPHENSON One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's social...
NEAL STEPHENSON The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well...
NEAL STEPHENSON Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.
NEAL STEPHENSON They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, cert...
NEAL STEPHENSON It is what you don't expect... that most needs looking for.
NEAL STEPHENSON Hiro is a talented drifter. This is the kind of lifestyle that sounded romantic to him as recently a...
NEAL STEPHENSON Besides, interesting things happen along borders—transitions—not in the middle where everything ...
NEAL STEPHENSON Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepi...
NEAL STEPHENSON The sight of the bare katana inspires everyone to a practically Nipponese level of politeness
NEAL STEPHENSON Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise.
NEAL STEPHENSON All these beefy Caucasians with guns. Get enough of them together,looking for the America they alway...
NEAL STEPHENSON The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallow subcategory. He's got esprit up to here. Right n...
NEAL STEPHENSON Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relati...
NEAL STEPHENSON All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or somet...
NEAL STEPHENSON When it gets down to it — talking trade balances here — once we've brain-drained all our technol...
NEAL STEPHENSON The franchise and the virus work on the same principle, what thrives in one place will thrive in ano...
NEAL STEPHENSON Shit, if I took time out to have an opinion about everything, I wouldn't get any work done.
NEAL STEPHENSON He turns off the techno-shit in his goggles. All it does is confuse him; he stands there reading sta...
NEAL STEPHENSON It’s, like, one of them drug dealer boats,” Vic says, looking through his magic sight. “Five g...
NEAL STEPHENSON ..this is just like life must be for about 99 percent of the people in the world. You're in this pla...
NEAL STEPHENSON When the Deliverator puts the hammer down, shit happens.
NEAL STEPHENSON We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your...
NEAL STEPHENSON This Snow Crash thing--is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?”

Juanita shrugs. “What'...
NEAL STEPHENSON Well, all information looks like noise until you break the code.
NEAL STEPHENSON Most countries are static, all they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big ol...
NEAL STEPHENSON Did you win your sword fight?"
"Of course I won the fucking sword fight," Hiro says. "I'm the g...
NEAL STEPHENSON This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Beca...
NEAL STEPHENSON I don't even want you to nod, that's how much you annoy me. Just freeze and shut up.
NEAL STEPHENSON It was, of course, nothing more than sexism, the especially virulent type espoused by male techies w...
NEAL STEPHENSON I just saved your fucking life, Mom. . . . You could at least offer me an Oreo.
NEAL STEPHENSON To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.
NEAL STEPHENSON When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.
NEAL STEPHENSON In an apt demonstration of the principle of relativity, as propounded by Galileo, the bawdy platter ...
NEAL STEPHENSON People wait until they have a need for some history and then they customize it to suit their purpose...
NEAL STEPHENSON Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass,...
NEAL STEPHENSON Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn ...
NEAL STEPHENSON And yet viewing several depictions of even an imaginary city, is enlightening in a way," Leibniz sai...
NEAL STEPHENSON Is this some exercise in keeping a straight face?
NEAL STEPHENSON the difference between poets and mystics . . . The mystic nails a symbol to one meaning that was tru...
NEAL STEPHENSON Thousands of years ago, the work that people did had been broken down into jobs that were the same e...
NEAL STEPHENSON It is the fate of operating systems to become free.
NEAL STEPHENSON He's rich," Jack muttered to Eliza, "or connected with rich persons."
"Yes—the clothes, the c...
NEAL STEPHENSON Ever think of introducing yourself?" Y.T. says.
"Nah," he says, "people always forget names. Yo...
NEAL STEPHENSON Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or el...
NEAL STEPHENSON Just aiming a speely input device, or a Farspark chambre, or whatever you call it... a speelycaptor....
NEAL STEPHENSON He walked straight out of college into the waiting arms of the Navy.

They gave him an in...
NEAL STEPHENSON Nell," the Constable continued, indicating through his tone of voice that the lesson was concluding,...
NEAL STEPHENSON Seven billion who need to be kept happy, and docile, until the end. How do you do that? What's the b...
NEAL STEPHENSON Wartime lipstick is necessarily cobbled together from whatever tailings and gristle were left over o...
NEAL STEPHENSON Unix is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subcultur...
NEAL STEPHENSON Most of Csongor's time in T'Rain had been spent blundering about in a state of hapless newbie confus...
NEAL STEPHENSON Therapies administered included but were not limited to: turning things off, then on again; picking ...
NEAL STEPHENSON El desarrollo de software comparte con el deporte profesional la característica de lograr que los t...
NEAL STEPHENSON Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men ...
NEAL STEPHENSON Dr. Turing of Cambridge says that the soul is an illusion and that all that defines us as human bein...
NEAL STEPHENSON All the Chinese people Richard had ever met had been sophisticated urbanites, so he had been half ex...
NEAL STEPHENSON Yong is the outer manifestation of something. Ti is the underlying essence. Technology is a yong ass...
NEAL STEPHENSON You mentioned . . . one of the two great labyrinths into which the mind is drawn. What . . . is the ...
NEAL STEPHENSON This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will ...
NEAL STEPHENSON Magical?" "Non." "Magnificent?" "Don't be absurd." "Less bleak than anything else we have seen?" "No...
NEAL 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 The GPS unit became almost equally obstreperous, though, over Richard’s unauthorized route change,...
NEAL STEPHENSON Never been here before. It's like something on the top floor of a luxury high-rise casino in Atlanti...
NEAL STEPHENSON Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot.
NEAL STEPHENSON He has reverted, in other words, back into a pure balls-to-the-wall nerdism rivaled only by his earl...
NEAL STEPHENSON Most men would rather be shot through with a broad-headed arrow than be described by you.
NEAL STEPHENSON An old market had stood there until I'd been about six years old, when the authorities had renamed i...
NEAL STEPHENSON And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was som...
NEAL STEPHENSON Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bomc,' I said. 'We have a protractor.'
Oka...
NEAL STEPHENSON For example, there was the day he gave me the job of figuring out how many jellybeans it would take ...
NEAL STEPHENSON The hour of noon has passed,' said Judge Fang. 'Let us go and get some Kentucky Fried Chicken.
NEAL STEPHENSON The difference between stupid and intelligent people -- and this is true whether or not they are wel...
NEAL STEPHENSON Princess Nell had to reconstruct them, learning the language, which was extremely pithy and made hea...
NEAL STEPHENSON We have a couple of dogs, but I wouldn't describe myself as an animal person.
PAMELA STEPHENSON There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own...
PAMELA STEPHENSON There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious abou...
PAMELA STEPHENSON There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.
PAMELA STEPHENSON The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without...
PAMELA STEPHENSON Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.
PAMELA STEPHENSON Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
PAMELA STEPHENSON It is one thing to go on stage and be funny or be in a good place in your career, but for a woman, a...
PAMELA STEPHENSON I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer togeth...
PAMELA STEPHENSON I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make...
PAMELA STEPHENSON I don't like the term mid-life crisis.
PAMELA STEPHENSON There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.
PAMELA STEPHENSON There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we bo...
PAMELA STEPHENSON So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.
PAMELA STEPHENSON Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
PAMELA STEPHENSON Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one o...
PAMELA STEPHENSON Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity.
PAMELA STEPHENSON When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet. But ...
PAMELA STEPHENSON The notion of a contemporary epiphany to me is very exciting, because it's a sort of biblical th...
PAMELA STEPHENSON After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with the...
PAMELA STEPHENSON I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings an...
PAMELA STEPHENSON Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.
PAMELA STEPHENSON This is the wonderful thing about espionage, nothing exists any more.
WILLIAM STEPHENSON I am much obliged by the favourable sentiments you express towards me, and shall be happy if I can b...
GEORGE STEPHENSON I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the...
PAMELA STEPHENSON [So, to lose the weight, she avoided faddy diets and devised a balanced eating plan.] I was careful ...
DEBRA STEPHENSON We work closely with the customer. The MoD sends us 'subject matter experts' who have just returned ...
COLIN STEPHENSON It was like havingan 8 month hangover!
DEBRA STEPHENSON The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before...
GEORGE STEPHENSON Integrating the show with the commercial air traffic has been a really tricky exercise.
COLIN STEPHENSON The idea is that it's not just the military that's going to be delivering the effect anymore. It's b...
BARBARA STEPHENSON It's inadvertent almost always but it really does take time.
BARBARA STEPHENSON History has shown us that when we wait until we get on the ground to come up with a strategy in real...
BARBARA STEPHENSON We set a miserable tone from the start.
GENE STEPHENSON We'll tell each other that we love each other and I'm always going to be there for him.
AMANDA STEPHENSON The timing is really important.
AMANDA STEPHENSON We kind of threw something together with fins and some brightly colored stuff and a gas mask, which ...
BILL STEPHENSON We knew coming into this year that the bar was raised, and I think we all knew what we wanted to do....
BRANDON STEPHENSON They slid to Boyce a lot, and he's one of our most potent dodgers.
ED STEPHENSON The plan seems very comprehensive, and I was very impressed with it. (The plan) is headed in the rig...
BOB STEPHENSON I cannot justify not being at 100 percent of the market rate, and we should do everything we can to ...
BOB STEPHENSON I don't know if beating them in the fourth overtime like that was necessarily a good thing for us. I...
BRANDON STEPHENSON I like having the pressure on me. My teammates played a great game tonight, and I just did my job.
BRANDON STEPHENSON James was delighted with them, too. I've always liked having bigger boobs. At first I was a bit sad ...
DEBRA STEPHENSON The large pieces of furniture and the decorator items are the first to go.
TODD STEPHENSON Not like it used to be. It didn't seem like we were excited -- this whole ballpark just seemed quiet...
GENE STEPHENSON This is the biggest fund-raiser of the year for the elementary.
LORI STEPHENSON We squandered some opportunities, but some of that may have been their pitching.
GENE STEPHENSON We were building a picket fence and we decided to put a gate in.
NELSON STEPHENSON I am happy with the personnel, ... We've got the potential to be much, much better than we showed th...
GENE STEPHENSON Everybody is different, so it's important to notice what affects you, which is why I kept a food dia...
DEBRA STEPHENSON Acting is my priority.
DEBRA STEPHENSON I love singing and I'd be thrilled if my album did well.
DEBRA STEPHENSON It was like having
an 8 month hangover!
DEBRA STEPHENSON She loves Danny but she can't forgive him.
DEBRA STEPHENSON Twenty years may seem like a long time, but for the heinousness of the crime, it's not that long. If...
EDWARD STEPHENSON We certainly don't want him out but there's not a thing we can do.
EDWARD STEPHENSON I am glad to learn that the Parliament Bill has been passed for the Darlington Railway.
GEORGE STEPHENSON The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.
GEORGE STEPHENSON It was designed as a multi-purpose building so that you can do a variety of events.
CHRISTOPHER STEPHENSON The bluegill population is very good. We haven't collected any 'trophy' bluegill, but there are many...
DAN STEPHENSON That means we had 14 bass over 18 inches every hour.
DAN STEPHENSON We still don't know why. We assume it has something to do with heat fluctuations.
DAN STEPHENSON In the spring of 2005 during a night shocking survey, we collected 119 bass per hour averaging over ...
DAN STEPHENSON One was doing so well, so why not put in two?
DAN STEPHENSON We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance.
WILLIAM STEPHENSON If we going to sell this to the public, we are going to have explain how these dollars are going to ...
DAVE STEPHENSON It will always come to the biggest entity who they assume has the biggest pockets.
DAVE STEPHENSON It's great for our community and for the men and women in our armed services.
DAVE STEPHENSON There is nothing more important than the children and the youth of our community and it's an ideal s...
DAVE STEPHENSON Something like this is long past due.
DAVE STEPHENSON We know the purpose and intent of this building, but reading the fine print, the building retains ba...
DAVE STEPHENSON I have no idea how he caught that ball. You can't say enough about Matt Brown and how he plays the o...
GENE STEPHENSON He has played very well defensively at third base. He's swinging the bat well. He can add some punch...
GENE STEPHENSON They can go get the ball with anybody and make all the plays.
GENE STEPHENSON We have a lot of depth. We can withstand some injuries and not be devastated.
GENE STEPHENSON I think he's got real promise, ... He's loose, and he's got a great swing.
GENE STEPHENSON He's truly a very remarkable, special athlete. He's an outstanding hitting prospect.
GENE STEPHENSON I've always felt WSU was the premier university in the Missouri Valley Conference. We have the best ...
GENE STEPHENSON Words can't describe a group that has been with us for four years and started the program.
ED STEPHENSON We could have held them a little tighter, which is what we've done in the past. We've got to score e...
ED STEPHENSON Each year the recruiting is getting better. Better kids are looking at us, and we're getting more of...
ED STEPHENSON We played a great first half defensively. We struggled to break them down one-on-one on the offensiv...
ED STEPHENSON We weren't sharp on either end. We didn't do anything on offense; we didn't do anything on defense. ...
ED STEPHENSON We were kind of spotty in our last game; fortunately a few of the guys stepped up. It's just another...
ED STEPHENSON That's the whole point of the increase in our schedule this year, to give us that second opportunity...
ED STEPHENSON We're gonna have to work real hard starting Monday. We really have to improve every week. I thought ...
ED STEPHENSON It's a great win for our program, it's a milestone for us. We play a very difficult schedule early, ...
ED STEPHENSON Work as hard with your internal customers as you do with outside suppliers to establish long-term re...
JANICE STEPHENSON Getting buy-in was a hard sell.
JANICE STEPHENSON Maybe we can even finish the story of white deer and its sad ending and read it to children. It woul...
JANICE STEPHENSON I'm devastated, just devastated. Never in my wildest dreams did I think anyone in the town of Garner...
JANICE STEPHENSON