Famous quotes by Neal Stephenson:
"One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there - but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it."
"The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety."
"For example, there was the day he gave me the job of figuring out how many jellybeans it would take to fill up Soldier Field."
"The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different."
"Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight."
"The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent."
"Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment."
"Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was."
"It is the fate of operating systems to become free."
