Anathem
Neal Stephenson
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.”
“Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defense against the ugliness that will hem you in and come at you in so many ways.”
“Boredom is a mask frustration wears.”
“I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out there." There might as well be, "Arsibalt said, "but most of it gets spent on pornography, sugar water and bombs. There is only so much that can be scraped together for particle accelerators.”
“The 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.”
“It is what you don't expect... that most needs looking for.”
“That's funny because if anyone actually did prove the existence of God we'd just tell him 'nice proof, Fraa Bly' and start believing in God.”
“And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.”
“Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bomc,' I said. 'We have a protractor.' Okay, I'll go home and see if I can scrounge up a ruler and a piece of string.”
“They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.”
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Book Keywords:
knowledge, humor, warning, priorities, cosmology, expectation, beauty, shallowness, resources, ugliness
