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Neal Town Stephenson (born 31 October 1959) is an American writer, known primarily for his science fiction works in the postcyberpunk and chemical generation genres with a penchant for explorations of society, mathematics, currency, and the history of science.
United States Essayists Novelists Science fiction authors Short story writers Also known as: Stephenson, Neal, Fall; or, Dodge in Hell, Seveneves, The Big U, The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O., Zodiac (novel)
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The corporations have already planted their own bombs. All we have to do is light the fuses.
Zodiac (1988)
The mere suggestion that it might be possible to look at a thing from more than one point of view was infuriating to these people.
Seveneves (2015)
Nothing in a hardware store ever gets bought for its nominal purpose. You buy something that was designed to do one thing, and you use it for another.
Zodiac (1988)
It is only a certain type of mind that scorns what is known by all and treats secrets as jewels.
Seveneves (2015)
If you’re an engineer, and you’re not very bright, it’s easy to love polychlorinated biphenyls.
Zodiac (1988)
If history was any guide, those best at violence might end up ruling over everyone else.
Seveneves (2015)
The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.
Every large corporation has its own telephone maze, its juicy numbers and dead ends, its nickel-plated bitch queens and sugary do-gooders.
Zodiac (1988)
“We can’t make the same mistake again,” Aïda said, “of fooling ourselves. Believing in shit that isn’t real.”
Seveneves (2015)
This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.
Quicksilver (2003)
Stand-up peeing in a long flowing garment could lead to various mishaps.
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell (2019)
Fame's a weed, but repute is a slow-growing oak, and all we can do during our lifetimes is hop around like squirrels and plant acorns.
Quicksilver (2003)
As it turned out, imagining the fate of seven billion people was far less emotionally affecting than imagining the fate of one.
Seveneves (2015)
Agreement got by compulsion or trickery is not agreement, but a thing akin to slavery. Free minds are the only company worth having.
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell (2019)
His earlier conversation with Luisa had brought home to him, however, that ignoring politics might not be the wisest long-term strategy. He might not care about politics, but politics cared about him.
Seveneves (2015)
Hotness was a part of the human condition and it was pointless to pretend that it did not exist.
Seveneves (2015)
Heavy metal, drugs and sexual passion had dissolved her brain to a certain point where she no longer distinguished between dead and living persons.
Zodiac (1988)
“If you are going to make first contact with an intelligent alien race,” said Cantabrigia Five, “dropping huge strip-mining robots into their homeland might not be your best move.”
Seveneves (2015)
You could get use to anything. You got used to it and then time raced by, and before you knew it, time was up.
Seveneves (2015)
I’m not that proud of being a congenital pain in the ass. But I will take money for it.
Zodiac (1988)
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