Neal Stephenson Quotes - Page 2

You’re British, you’re a priest, you’re a medical doctor, you can handle a rifle, you know Morse Code, and most importantly of all, you’re a fucking pain in the ass – so off you go!

I’d rather stub out cigarettes on my tongue than go shopping.

People wait until they have a need for some history and then they customize it to suit their purposes.

Gold is the corpse of value...

If money is a science, then it is a dark science...it has gone on developing...by its own rules

. . . if money is a science, then it is a dark science, darker than alchemy. It split away from Natural Philosophy millennia ago, and has gone on developing ever since, by its own rules.

How does a poor country defeat rich ones?” “Indeed, the answer is not by acquiring wealth in the sense that France has it.” “Meaning vineyards, farms, peasants, cows?” “But rather to play a sort of trick and redefine wealth to mean something novel.” “Currency!” “Indeed.