Dystopian Author Quotes

Neal Stephenson Of persons I will say this: it is difficult to tell when they are running aright but easy to see when something has gone […]

Neal Stephenson This is exactly how the World Wide Web works: the HTML files are the pithy description on the paper tape, and your Web browser […]

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

Neal Stephenson Unix is not so much an operating system as an oral history.

Neal Stephenson The mind knows…that there is an action principle that governs how the world evolves from one moment to the next – that restricts our […]

Neal Stephenson A lot of secular, modern people claim to be disillusioned whenever they learn that any smart person is religious. That’s applicable to Newton as […]

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

Neal Stephenson Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs, I said. “We have a protractor.”

Neal Stephenson [Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful.