It had been a hell of a long time since he had been reduced to hiding behind a tree, and he did not view it as much of a professional achievement. - Neal Stephenson
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It had been a hell of a long time since he had been reduced to hiding behind a tree, and he did not view it as much of a professional achievement.
Neal Town Stephenson (born 31 October 1959) is an American writer, known primarily for his science fiction works in the postcyberpunk and chemical generation genres with a penchant for explorations of society, mathematics, currency, and the history of science.
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“I always wanted to be a Secret Service agent,” he confessed. “Because then you’re the only person in the world who can knock down the president and get away with it.”
A good yuppie has no sense of smell.
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I would say that the ability of people to agree on matters of fact not immediately visible — states of affairs removed from them in space and time — ramped up from a baseline of approximately zero to a pretty high level around the time of the scientific revolution and all that, and stayed there and became more globally distributed up through the Cronkite era, and then dropped to zero incredibly quickly when the Internet came along.
