Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver Quotes

This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.

If money is a science, then it is a dark science...it has gone on developing...by its own rules

. . . if money is a science, then it is a dark science, darker than alchemy. It split away from Natural Philosophy millennia ago, and has gone on developing ever since, by its own rules.

Most men would rather be shot through with a broad-headed arrow than be described by you.

You mentioned . . . one of the two great labyrinths into which the mind is drawn. What . . . is the other?""The other is the composition of the continuum, or: what is space?

The Bibliotheque du Roi then gives you the closest thing that currently exists to God's understanding of the world.""And yet with a bigger library we could come ever so much closer.