"It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone."

“O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.”

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.”

“Love is good for footballers, as long as it is not at half-time.”

“I like getting toilet paper thrown at me.”

“Yo-Yo Ma and Bobby McFerrin together again for the first time.”

“One of the most frightening things in the Western world, and in this country in particular, is the number of people who believe in things that are scientifically false. If someone tells me that the earth is less than 10,000 years old, in my opinion he should see a psychiatrist.”

Source : Neal Stephenson (2012). “Cryptonomicon”, p.646, Random House

“The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.”

“I've kind of always done diagrams. It helped me think.”