Quotes About Cryptonomicon

#1. Neal Stephenson is great. He can write about a white wall for six pages, and it sounds fascinating. I read the whole 'Baroque Cycle' and 'Cryptonomicon.'

Daniel Suarez

#2. Every thought and every act were to keep this home in tact.

Edgar Guest

#3. I don't like new bands. I don't want to be one of those pathetic old men in their forties who knows exactly what 18-year-olds are into.

Steve Coogan

#4. Disarming an idealist was easy

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#5. It's funny how you can hear only a few cords from a song and it'll transport you back in time to a particular person or place.

Janelle Smith Toussant

#6. If we emphasized only precision, our meditation might become quite harsh and militant. ( ... ). One thing that is very helpful is to cultivate an overall sense of relaxation while you are doing the meditation.

Pema Chodron

#7. It would be wrong for us to offer difference from the Conservative Party at the cost of credibility, but equally it would be wrong to offer credibility at the cost of being clear that there remain very fundamental differences.

Douglas Alexander

#8. ... we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.

Philip K. Dick

#9. When strategy, culture, and brand harmonize, they amplify one another and resonate loud and clear.

Kate O'Neill

#10. Always think about your future with a smile on your face, because your thoughts will eventually become your future.

Lilly Ghalichi

#11. It would be an idyllic tropical paradise if not for the malaria, the insects, the constant diarrhea and resulting hemorrhoids, and the fact that the people are dirty and smell bad and eat each other and use human heads for decoration.

Neal Stephenson

#12. Interesting," said I, "is a term I reserve to describe people or things so dull or ordinary, that I can find no more promising attribution.

Syrie James

#13. Better crawl than stuck at same place

Nikhil Kumar

#14. Any self-help program that discourages me from thinking for myself, that is, from tweaking what I've learned to understand myself is suspect. Growth is all about thinking creatively, and I can't very well do that if I take on the role of parrot.

Dannye Williamsen

#15. I get a lot of inspiration from Japanese manga, especially shoujo which tends to have elaborate and fantastical adventure plots.

Cassandra Clare

#16. A wedding is a ceremony where two people promise to love each other forever, no matter what. This was something the Designer intended from the beginning of time. Marriage is a picture of his love for the people he created.

Krista McGee