If money is a science, then it is a dark science...it has gone on developing...by its own rules
Neal StephensonTag: money
All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or something, and we'll latch onto anything that'll fill that niche for us.
Neal StephensonShe's a woman, you're a dude. You're not supposed to understand her. That's not what she's after.... She doesn't want you to understand her. She knows that's impossible. She just wants you to understand yourself. Everything else is negotiable.
Neal StephensonTag: inspirational understanding men-and-women gender-stereotypes understanding-oneself-and-others
Which path do you intend to take, Nell?' said the Constable, sounding very interested. 'Conformity or rebellion?'
Neither one. Both ways are simple-minded - they are only for people who cannot cope with contradiction and ambiguity.
Tag: inspirational
She's not afraid. She's wearing a dentata.
Neal StephensonThe full cosmos consists of the physical stuff and consciousness. Take away consciousness and it's only dust; add consciousness and you get things, ideas, and time.
Neal StephensonTag: cosmology
... when I saw any of those kinds of beauty I knew I was alive, and not just in the sense that when I hit my thumb with a hammer I knew I was alive, but rather in the sense that I was partaking of something--something was passing through me that it was in my nature to be a part of.
Neal StephensonTag: beauty
If you sincerely believed in God, how could you form one thought, speak one sentence, without mentioning Him?
Neal StephensonIt is what you don't expect... that most needs looking for.
Neal StephensonTag: warning expectation
Did you win your sword fight?"
"Of course I won the fucking sword fight," Hiro says. "I'm the greatest sword fighter in the world."
"And you wrote the software."
"Yeah. That, too," Hiro says.
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