Snow Crash Quotes

“Ever think of introducing yourself?" Y.T. says.
"Nah," he says, "people always forget names. You can just think of me as that one guy, y'know?”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

“Never been here before. It's like something on the top floor of a luxury high-rise casino in Atlantic City, where they put semi-retarded adults from South Philly after they've blundered into the mega jackpot" Hiro Protagonist - Snow Crash”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

“Y'know, watching government regulators trying to keep up with the world is my favorite sport.”
― Neal Stephenson

“The aerodynamic cowling is totally flexible, calculates its most efficient shape for the current speed and wind conditions, changes its curves accordingly, wraps around you like a nymphomaniacal gymnast.”
― Neil Stephenson

“I’m Sushi K and I’m here to say
I like to rap in a different way
Look out Number One in every city
Sushi K rap has all most pretty
My special talking of remarkable words
Is not the stereotyped bucktooth nerd
My hair is big as a galaxy
Cause I attain greater technology
[...]
I like to rap about sweetened romance
My fond ambition is of your pants
So here is of special remarkable way
Of this fellow raps named Sushi K
The Nipponese talking phenomenon
Like samurai sword his sharpened tongue
Who raps the East Asia and the Pacific
Prosperity Sphere, to be specific
[...]
Sarariman on subway listen
For Sushi K like nuclear fission
Fire-breathing lizard Gojiro
He my always big-time hero
His mutant rap burn down whole block
Start investing now Sushi K stock
It on Nikkei stock exchange
Waxes; other rappers wane
Best investment, make my day
Corporation Sushi K
[...]
Coming to America now
Rappers trying to start a row
Say “Stay in Japan, please, listen!
We can’t handle competition!”
U.S. rappers booing and hissin’
Ask for rap protectionism
They afraid of Sushi K
Cause their audience go away
He got chill financial backin’
Give those U.S. rappers a smackin’
Sushi K concert machine
Fast efficient super clean
Run like clockwork in a watch
Kick old rappers in the crotch
[...]
He learn English total immersion
English/Japanese be mergin’
Into super combination
So can have fans in every nation
Hong Kong they speak English, too
Yearn of rappers just like you
Anglophones who live down under
Sooner later start to wonder
When they get they own rap star
Tired of rappers from afar
[...]
So I will get big radio traffic
When you look at demographic
Sushi K research statistic
Make big future look ballistic
Speed of Sushi K growth stock
Put U.S. rappers into shock”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

“But in the bleak light of full adulthood, which is to one's early twenties as Sunday morning is to Saturday night, he can clearly see what it really amounts to: he's broke and unemployed.”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash