Neal Stephenson said this quote

“ And yet all the gold is in England, it is dug up from Portuguese and Spanish mines, but it flows by some occult power of attraction to the Tower of London.” “Flows,” Caroline repeated. “Flows, like a current.” Sophie nodded. “And the English have grown so used to this that they use ‘currency’ as a synonym for money, as if no distinction need be observed between them. ”

Famous Quotes of Neal Stephenson

Famous quotes of Neal Stephenson from the classy quote

See all

Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.

~ Neal Stephenson

A few dud universes can really clutter up your basement.

~ Neal Stephenson

If you can't test it, it's not theorics -- it's metatheorics. A branch of philosophy. So, if you want to think of it this way, our test equipment is what defines the boundary separating theorics from philosophy.

~ Neal Stephenson

Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?

~ Neal Stephenson