Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
Top 10 Best Quotes
“See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places,”
“Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude that the entire one hundred percent is bullshit, which is why atheism is connected with being intelligent in people's minds.”
“She'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.”
“When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.”
“To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.”
“I just saved your fucking life, Mom. . . . You could at least offer me an Oreo.”
“It was, of course, nothing more than sexism, the especially virulent type espoused by male techies who sincerely believe that they are too smart to be sexists.”
“I don't even want you to nod, that's how much you annoy me. Just freeze and shut up.”
“This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them.”
“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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