Neal Stephenson Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

• 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.

• I was trying to run something to ground that had come to my attention when I was working on the Baroque Cycle. That series, of course, was about the conflict between Newton and Leibniz. Leibniz developed a system of metaphysics called monadology, which looked pretty weird at the time and was promptly buried by Newtonian-style physics.

  Neal Stephenson

  Running, Style, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I really am just trying to tell stories. But stories are often grounded in larger events and themes. They don't have to be - there's a big literature of trailer-park, kitchen-table fiction that's just about goings-on in the lives of ordinary people - but my own tastes run toward stories that in addition to being good stories are set against a backdrop that is interesting to read and learn about.

  Neal Stephenson

  Running, People, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Of persons I will say this: it is difficult to tell when they are running aright but easy to see when something has gone awry.

  Neal Stephenson

  Running, Gone, Easy

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