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“The suit's got a cervical airbag that blows up when you fall off the board, so you can bounce on your head. Besides, helmets feel weird. They say it doesn't affect your hearing, but it does.”
― Snow Crash
― Snow Crash
“If she screws up this delivery, that means she's double-crossing God, who may or may not exist, and in any case who is capable of forgiveness. The Mafia definitely exists and hews to a higher standard of obedience.”
― Snow Crash
― Snow Crash
“When Hiro learned how to do this, way back fifteen years ago, a hacker could sit down and write an entire piece of software by himself. Now, that's no longer possible. Software comes out of factories, and hackers are, to a greater or lesser extent, assembly-line workers. Worse yet, they may become managers who never get to write any code themselves.”
― Snow Crash
― Snow Crash
“I am an Aleut.” “Oh, I've never heard of that.” “That's because we've been fucked over,” the big scary Aleut says, “worse than any other people in history.”
― Snow Crash
― Snow Crash
“Rife's key realization was that there's no difference between modern culture and Sumerian. We have a huge workforce that is illiterate or alliterate and relies on TV-which is sort of an oral tradition. And we have a small, extremely literate power elite-the people who go into the Meatverse, basically-who understand that information is power, and who control society because they have this semimystical ability to speak magic computer languages.”
― Snow Crash
― Snow Crash
Sara’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Sara’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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11 books
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0 books
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33 friends
22 books
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76 friends
0 books
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