Neal Stephenson Quotes


But then, Cap'n Crunch in a flake form would be suicidal madness; it would last about as long, when immersed in milk, as snowflakes sifting down into a deep fryer. No, the cereal engineers at General Mills had to find a shape that would minimize surface area, and, as some sort of compromise between the sphere that is dictated by Euclidean geometry and whatever sunken treasure related shapes that the cereal aestheticians were probably clamoring for, they came up with this hard-to-pin-down striated pillow formation.


Citations

Stephenson, Neal. Cryptonomicon. Avon Books, 1999.

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Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson
  • Born: October 31, 1959
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Novelist, Short Story Writer, Essayist

Neal Town Stephenson is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction. His novels have been categorized as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, postcyberpunk, and baroque.