Neal Stephenson Quotes

I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.

Los Angeles is an amazing city to live in, but the traffic is unbelievable. It's overwhelming at times. It's the source of a lot of frustration.

I don't think the state of California realized there would be this many people here caught up in the freeway system.

Life's too short when you find yourself sitting in a car for four hours every day trying to get from East L.A. to West L.A. to Hollywood and then back to East L.A.

I understand how it feels to stand in a crowded train, to be stuck in congested traffic.

Why is everything so far apart in Los Angeles?

Everyone can relate to being stuck in a traffic jam.

Boy, I wouldn't want to live in L.A.

The main thing I despise about America now is driving on the freeways.

I don't like L.A. It's just not fun. I don't know why, but I just don't get it. You have to drive to get everywhere, and when it rains everybody freaks out.

Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam.

Less revenue, more people, more freight, more gridlock - that is not a formula for success.

Our intent will not be to create gridlock. Oh, except maybe from time to time.

I would never want to move to L.A.

I'm not fond of cities: the constant activity and swarms of people.

I loathe crowds. I especially don't like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.

I've driven in L.A. probably three times. I'm a slug in L.A.

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

There's a lot of downtime where you're filling your car up with gas, you're driving to work, you're stuck in traffic - it's Los Angeles, and so much of it is a car lifestyle.

Los Angeles is often described as the nadir of vapidity, a smog-choked space cradle.

A little gridlock might be pretty good from time to time.

You can't stop traffic on Times Square.

Everybody knows that L.A. is known for its addiction to the single-passenger automobile, the gridlock, the congestion on the freeways.

With increased growth in the U.S. population, especially in urban areas, transport bottlenecks will only become more frequent and severe.