Dystopian Author Quotes

Neal Stephenson Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window.

Neal Stephenson It is commonly the case with technologies that you can get the best insight about how they work by watching them fail.

Neal Stephenson The full cosmos consists of the physical stuff and consciousness. Take away consciousness and it’s only dust; add consciousness and you get things, ideas, […]

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

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

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

Neal Stephenson The only thing that can effect a big change in personality is something that physically rewires the brain and/or alters the body’s chemical milieu.

Neal Stephenson To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.

Neal Stephenson This made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of tiresome burdens […]