Cryptonomicon First Edition Quotes

#1. Success makes opportunities and so many of those "opportunities" are actually exemptions - from hardship, from unfriendliness, from struggle.

George Saunders

#2. They've participated extensively in this conference and they are doing their best to help.

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

#3. Videos have to go hand in hand with your music, so that's why, ultimately, they should be created by the artist. And if they're not, it doesn't really add up to me.

Marilyn Manson

#4. To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots.

Richard Mabey

#5. I think if the White House or the President want to say anything about our conversations or anything I tried to do to help our country with their support or at their request, then I think they should be the ones to do that. But I think that former presidents should do that.

William J. Clinton

#6. I'm in total control. I write the songs, decide what to sing and how to sing. I even control the recording process. But, with a film, there is no control at all.

Norah Jones

#7. Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things.

Elvis Costello

#8. Happiness was born a twin.

George Gordon Byron

#9. A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare.

Leon Uris