Neal Stephenson Quotes About Property

Quotes about: Property

• The franchise and the virus work on the same principle, what thrives in one place will thrive in another. You just have to find a sufficiently virulent business plan, condense it into a three-ring binder ― its DNA ― Xerox it, and embed it in the fertile line of a well-traveled highway, preferably one with a left turn lane. Then the growth will expand until it runs up against its property lines.

  Neal Stephenson

  Running, Dna, Growth

  "Snow Crash". Book by Neal Stephenson, 1992.

• 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.

  Neal Stephenson

  Book, Mind, Pathways

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “The Diamond Age”, p.163, Spectra

• Any property that's open to common use gets destroyed. Because everyone has incentive to use it to the max, but no one has incentive to maintain it.

  Neal Stephenson

  Max, Use, Incentives

  Neal Stephenson (2007). “Zodiac”, p.68, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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