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Snow Crash QUOTES

Snow Crash QUOTES

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

― Neal Stephenson , Snow Crash

2 " Juanita believes that nothing is provably true or provably false in the Bible. Because if it's provably false, then the Bible is a lie, and if it's provably true, then the existence of God is proven and there's no room for faith. "

― Neal Stephenson , Snow Crash

3 " 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. "

― Neal Stephenson , Snow Crash

4 " The Deliverator's car has enough potential energy packed into its batteries to fire a pound of bacon into the Asteroid Belt. Unlike a bimbo box or a Burb beater, the Deliverator's car unloads that power through gaping, gleaming, polished, sphincters. When the Deliverator puts the hammer down, shit happens. "

― Neal Stephenson , Snow Crash

5 " I just saved your fucking life, Mom. . . . You could at least offer me an Oreo. "

― Neal Stephenson , Snow Crash

6 " Most countries are static, all they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight. "

― Neal Stephenson , Snow Crash

7 " I just saved your fucking life, Mom...It's like, if you--people of a certain age--would make some effort to just stay in touch with sort of basic, modern-day events, then your kids wouldn't have to take these drastic measures. "

― Neal Stephenson , Snow Crash

8 " It's--my God--like you stretched a tarp across a stadium to turn it into a giant tom-tom and crashed a 747 into it. "

― Neal Stephenson , Snow Crash

9 " The franchise and the virus work on the same principle, what thrives in one place will thrive in another. You just have to find a sufficiently virulent business plan, condense it into a three-ring binder ― its DNA ― Xerox it, and embed it in the fertile line of a well-traveled highway, preferably one with a left turn lane. Then the growth will expand until it runs up against its property lines. "

― Neal Stephenson , Snow Crash

10 " See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places, "

― Neal Stephenson , Snow Crash

11 " A Kourier has to establish space on the pavement. Predictable law-abiding behavior lulls drivers. They mentally assign you to a little box in the lane, assume you will stay there, can't handle it when you leave that little box. "

― Neal Stephenson , Snow Crash

12 " think that if Hiro was so convinced in his own mind that he was unworthy of her, maybe he knew something she didn't. "

― Neal Stephenson , Snow Crash

13 " When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins. "

― Neal Stephenson , Snow Crash

14 " To condense fact from the vapor of nuance. "

― Neal Stephenson , Snow Crash

15 " 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. "

― Neal Stephenson , Snow Crash

16 " I don't even want you to nod, that's how much you annoy me. Just freeze and shut up. "

― Neal Stephenson , Snow Crash

17 " 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. "

― Neal Stephenson , Snow Crash

18 " Well, all information looks like noise until you break the code. "

― Neal Stephenson , Snow Crash

19 " We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your head that you keep humming all day until you spread it to someone else. Jokes. Urban legends. Crackpot religions. Marxism. No matter how smart we get, there is always this deep irrational part that makes us potential hosts for self-replicating information. "

― Neal Stephenson , Snow Crash

20 " When the Deliverator puts the hammer down, shit happens. "

― Neal Stephenson , Snow Crash