Neal Stephenson Quotes

Like Hollywood movies, MTV and blue jeans, fast food has become one of America's major cultural exports.

Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.

American sci-fi has fallen into the doldrums in part because of the anti-science sentiment that's so prevalent in our culture lately.

We're not living in a school-of-Paris world, you know, and the things we really see in America are like this. It's McDonald's, it's not Le Corbusier.

Heath Slater, or the chick from Wendy's

We're the toolmakers. Our developers are the real creative geniuses.

Since its inception, HCL's core focus area has been technology and product development, and hence, we continued to remain in the high end of technology throughout the '90s.

Old companies that had nothing to do with software in the past all have software development activities to unlock the invention that's occurring inside of these organizations. And so the developer is a very important part of that overall ecosystem.

We're creating this new breed of techies who are going to be the ones starting the tech companies of the future.

Society is fast - fast food, fast cars, fast everything.

Look at the way sports, music and film have become driving forces of popular culture. Fashion is the fourth pillar.

My only experience with American things is through movies.

America's cultural table is set by the people living in the three bubbles - New York Washington D.C. and Hollywood.

We can build a better product than Linux.

The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future.

When we started off we didn't know how to spell software.

All Americans born between 1890 and 1945 wanted to be movie stars.

When Superman came out it galvanized the entire industry. It's just part of the American scene.

Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.

This is a software-powered world.

I would say that Mickey Mouse has a greater influence on the American public than Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Rabelais, Shostakovitch, Lenin, and/or Van Gogh. Which says 'What?' about the American Public. Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.

Madonna is the speedboat, and the rest of us are just the Go-Gos on water skis.

I was Justin Timberlake personal stylist for years, so I went to his video shoots and his gigs with Madonna, and I did it very hands-on. It was a great way to experience and understand that part of American culture.

Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.

Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.