Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment.
Neal StephensonEven the best of us have certain psychological mechanisms that can suddenly kick in and turn us into monsters.
Neal StephensonI think visual literacy and media literacy is not without value, but I think plain old-fashioned text literacy and mathematical literacy are much more powerful and flexible ways to organize your mind.
Neal StephensonArguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be — or to be indistinguishable from — self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.
Neal Stephenson