Seveneves
Neal Stephenson
Top 10 Best Quotes
“THE MOON BLEW UP WITHOUT WARNING AND FOR NO APPARENT reason.”
“But I have to warn you that this is the word—‘politics’—that nerds use whenever they feel impatient about the human realities of an organization.”
“any event largely organized by elementary school teachers was likely to come off extremely well from a logistical and crowd-control standpoint.”
“We're not hunter-gatherers anymore. We're all living like patients in the intensive care unit of a hospital. What keeps us alive isn't bravery, or athleticism, or any of those other skills that were valuable in a caveman society. It's our ability to master complex technological skills. It is our ability to be nerds. We need to breed nerds.”
“The human race might be about to disappear, but not before putting on a two-year frenzy of recreational sex.”
“Fighting isn’t about knowing how. It’s about deciding to.”
“As it turned out, imagining the fate of seven billion people was far less emotionally affecting than imagining the fate of one.”
“Old Earthers had focused their intelligence on the small and the soft, not the big and the hard, and built a civilization that was puny and crumbling where physical infrastructure was concerned, but astonishingly sophisticated when it came to networked communications and software.”
“All the people saying mean things about me on the Internet are gonna be dead in four hundred and thirty-three days,” she said, deadpan.”
“the federal government needs to be scaled back to a size where he can personally stomp it to death with steel-toed boots.”
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