Quotes by Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

Explore a curated collection of 18 quotes by Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

Ares always reemerges from the chaos. It will never go away. Athenian civilization defends itself from the forces of Are — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
He walked straight out of college into the waiting arms of the Navy. They gave him an intelligence test. The first quest — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
It is a second-generation Seattle-scene record label; all of its artists are young people who came to Seattle after they — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
Gold is the corpse of value... — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
This is one of the most important moments in your life. Nothing will ever be the same. We might get rich. We might get k — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
Men believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speakin — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
World-class cereal-eating is a dance of fine compromises. The giant heaping bowl of sodden cereal, awash in milk, is the — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
A red dragonfly hovers above a backwater of the stream, its wings moving so fast that the eye sees not wings in movement — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
I don’t think that teenagers are the way they are because of their age. It’s because they have nothing to lose. They sim — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
Most of the brain's work is done while the brain's owner is ostensibly thinking about something else, so sometimes you h — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
Dr. Turing of Cambridge says that the soul is an illusion and that all that defines us as human beings can be reduced to — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
There was no room for dust devils in the laws of physics, as least in the rigid form in which they were usually taught. — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
He has reverted, in other words, back into a pure balls-to-the-wall nerdism rivaled only by his early game-coding days b — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somew — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
This "sir, yes sir" business, which would probably sound like horseshit to any civilian in his right mind, makes sense t — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
The ocean is a Turing machine, the sand is its tape; the water reads the marks in the sand and sometimes erases them and — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
It appeared that way, Lawrence, but this raised the question of was mathematics really true or was it just a game played — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
Chester nods all the way through this, but does not rudely interrupt Randy as a younger nerd would. Your younger nerd ta — Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon