Neal Stephenson Short Quotes

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Welcome to the GWOJ.
GWOJ?
Global War on Jones.

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Well, all information looks like noise until you break the code.

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The best way to know someone is to have a conversation with them.

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Technically, of course, he was right. Socially, he was annoying us.

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Two tires fly. Two Wail. A bamboo grove, all chopped down From it, warring songs.

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He told us that a lone avout was being pursued by a mob. We saw it as an emergence.

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I don't even want you to nod, that's how much you annoy me. Just freeze and shut up.

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When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.

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Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot.

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Why do they believe that?
Because we are hackers, Csongor said, and they have seen movies.

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The corporations have already planted their own bombs. All we have to do is light the fuses.

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The sight of the bare katana inspires everyone to a practically Nipponese level of politeness

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The hour of noon has passed,' said Judge Fang. 'Let us go and get some Kentucky Fried Chicken.

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How could your cover be blown in Canada? Why even bother going dark there? How could you tell?

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You should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake'...

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Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.

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Interesting things happen along borders - transitions - not in the middle where everything is the same.

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If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy.

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If you sincerely believed in God, how could you form one thought, speak one sentence, without mentioning Him?

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I feel that I am entitled to trample all other considerations into the dirt in my pursuit of a satisfying pun.

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

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The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.

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Middle class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.

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Much pruning had taken place in recent weeks. I am now absent in many versions of the cosmos where you are present.

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There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music movies microcode (software) high-speed pizza delivery

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Ha ha noob, you are pwned by troll. I have encrypt all your file. Leave 1000 GP at below coordinates and I give you key

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Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?

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This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.

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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.

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They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.

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