Unfortunately, this category of secret is itself so secret that it's very existance is secret, and he can't actually reveal it to anyone.
("Cryptonomicon")
More Quotes from Neal Stephenson:
Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment.Neal Stephenson
He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that the surest way to shock most people, in those days, was to believe that some kinds of behavior were bad and others good, and that it was reasonable to live one's life accordingly.
Neal Stephenson
Besides, interesting things happen along borders-transitions-not in the middle where everything is the same.
Neal Stephenson
Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.
Neal Stephenson
Unless you are as smart as Johann Karl Friedrich Gauss, savvy as a half-blind Calcutta bootblack, tough as General William Tecumseh Sherman, rich as the Queen of England, emotionally resilient as a Red Sox fan, and as generally able to take care of yourself as the average nuclear missile submarine commander, you should never have been allowed near this document.
Neal Stephenson
Getting through the intersection involves tracing paths through the parking system, many braided filaments of direction like the Ho Chi Minh trail.
Neal Stephenson
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Secrets QuotesBased on Keywords: existance
Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul.
Bessie Head
Being fit will keep you mentally sharp and people forget that.
Peter Shilton
I never take on anything that is just for the money or just for, you know. I always have to connect with it in a very personal way because I believe the audience will sense whether I'm into it or not, so I don't take on projects that I'm not really passionate about.
Deborah Cox