Snow Crash Quotes

“There are four men in the life raft:”

“When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.”

“"Watching government regulators trying to keep up with the world is my favorite sport."”

“Their eyes meet and her heart starts flopping around weakly, like a bunny in a Ziploc bag.”

“Wikipedia: Snow Crash”

“The world is full of power and energy and a person can go far by just skimming off a tiny bit of it.”

“"Would Sumerian sound anything like glossolalia?"
"Judgment call. Ask someone real," the Librarian says.”

“"A monopolist's work is never done. No such thing as a perfect monopoly. Seems like you can never get that last one-tenth of one percent."”

“"What kind of combat environment do you want to use Reason in?" Ng says.
"I need to take over an aircraft carrier tomorrow morning."”

“"You don't respect those people very much, Y.T., because you're young and arrogant. But I don't respect them much either, because I am old and wise."”

“It was, of course, nothing more than sexism, the especially virulent type espoused by male techies who sincerely believe they are too smart to be sexists.”

“"Wait a minute, Juanita. Make up your mind. This Snow Crash thing — is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?"
Juanita shrugs. "What's the difference?"”

“"We would all like to know what the hell is going on," Mr. Lee says. His English is almost devoid of a Chinese accent; clearly his cute, daffy public image is just a front.”

“"If you ever find yourself in the presence of a destructive force powerful enough to decapsulate those isotopes," Ng says, "radiation sickness will be the least of your worries."”

“This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them.”

“It's like, if you — people of a certain age — would make some effort to just stay in touch with sort of basic, modern-day events, then your kids wouldn't have to take these drastic measures.”

“Such a world wouldn't be stable unless each little "burbclave" had the ability to defend itself from all external threats. This is not plausible, barring some huge advances in defensive technology.”

“"Did you win your sword fight?"
"Of course I won the fucking sword fight," Hiro says. "I'm the greatest sword fighter in the world."
"And you wrote the software."
"Yeah. That, too," Hiro says.”

“The [CGI] cigarette smoke swirls in the air ostentatiously. It takes as much computing power realistically to model the smoke coming out of Ng's mouth as it does to model the weather system of the entire planet.”

“"You want me to steal something," Y.T. says.
The man with the glass eye is pained, wounded. "No, no, no. Kid, listen. We're the fucking Mafia. We want to steal something, we already know how to do that, okay?"”