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Cryptonomicon

by Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)

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Holly said: " I'm maybe a third of the way into this book. It's ridiculously long, and while some the code-breaking and hardcore math stuff has been pretty cool (though beyond my comprehension), the central conflict of the plot still has yet to be revealed. I'm re ...more "

Oct 04, 2015 06:19PM · see review

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“Other people - store clerks, burger flippers, software engineers, the whole vocabulary of meaningless jobs that make up Life in America - other people just rely on plain old competition. Better flip your burgers or debug your subroutines faster than your high school classmate two blocks down the strip is flipping or debugging, because we're in competition with those guys, and people notice these things.

What a fucking rat race that is.”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

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“Because I never have any definite destination. This ship is not for going to places, but for getting away from them. When I stop at a port, it's only for the sheer pleasure of leaving it. I always think: here's one more place that can't hold me.”
― Ayn Rand

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