Neal Stephenson Mind Quotations

If the item of stolen property had been anything other than a book, it would have been confiscated. But a book is different—it is not just a material possession but the pathway to an enlightened mind, and thence to a well-ordered society,

I am on an expense account that would blow your mind.

This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.

The mind knows...that there is an action principle that governs how the world evolves from one moment to the next - that restricts our world's path to points that tell an internally consistent story.