bookmate game
en
Neal Stephenson

Snow Crash

Meld me wanneer het boek is toegevoegd
Dit boek lezen upload een EPUB- of FB2-bestand naar Bookmate. Hoe kan ik een boek uploaden?
  • mmmjeniciteerde uit9 jaar geleden
    “Their point is that at some level, language has to happen inside the human brain. Since all human brains are more or less the same—”
    “The hardware's the same. Not the software.”
  • mmmjeniciteerde uit9 jaar geleden
    See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places
  • mmmjeniciteerde uit9 jaar geleden
    it's not really camping when you don't have a house to go back to
  • mmmjeniciteerde uit9 jaar geleden
    According to Chomskyan theory, the deep structures are innate components of the brain that enable it to carry out certain formal kinds of operations on strings of symbols. Or, as Steiner paraphrases Emmon Bach: These deep structures eventually lead to the actual patterning of the cortex with its immensely ramified yet, at the same time, ‘programmed' network of electrochemical and neurophysiological channels.”
  • mmmjeniciteerde uit9 jaar geleden
    America is wonderful because you can get anything on a drive-through basis. Oil change, liquor, banking, car wash, funerals, anything you want—drive through!
  • mmmjeniciteerde uit9 jaar geleden
    “The problem with you hackers is you never stop working.”
    “That's what a hacker is,”
  • mmmjeniciteerde uit9 jaar geleden
    “You're a hacker. That means you have deep structures to worry about, too.”
    “Deep structures?”
    “Neurolinguistic pathways in your brain. Remember the first time you learned binary code?”
    “Sure.”
    “You were forming pathways in your brain. Deep structures. Your nerves grow new connections as you use them—the axons split and push their way between the dividing glial cells—your bioware self-modifies—the software becomes part of the hardware. So now you're vulnerable—all hackers are vulnerable—to a nam-shub. We have to look out for each other.”
  • b4272588141citeerde uit2 jaar geleden
    Abkhazia had been part of the Soviet fucking Union. A new immigrant from Abkhazia trying to operate a microwave was like a deep-sea tube worm doing brain surgery
  • Anastasia Shtykovaciteerde uit3 jaar geleden
    hackers are, to a greater or lesser extent, assembly-line workers
  • Anastasia Shtykovaciteerde uit3 jaar geleden
    So Hiro's not actually here at all. He's in a computer-generated universe that his computer is drawing onto his goggles and pumping into his earphones. In the lingo, this imaginary place is known as the Metaverse.
fb2epub
Sleep je bestanden hiernaartoe (maximaal 5 per keer)