Zachary Lysobey

“The fact that the scientific investigator works 50 percent of his time by nonrational means is, it seems, quite insufficiently recognized.”
― Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

“Ask a Soviet engineer to design a pair of shoes and he’ll come up with something that looks like the boxes that the shoes came in; ask him to make something that will massacre Germans, and he turns into Thomas Fucking Edison.”
― Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon