Snow Crash

Book · 4 characters · 37 quotes · 1992

Quotes from Snow Crash

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"The greatest trick is making people believe in what doesn't exist"
Hiro Protagonist Motivation
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"Nature has the best encryption"
Ng Nature
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"Every person is a story waiting to be hacked"
Hiro Protagonist Literature
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"Creativity flourishes in chaos"
Hiro Protagonist Creativity
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"Gratitude is the rarest currency"
Ng Gratitude
Y
"The greatest adventures begin with a single mistake"
Y.T. Adventure
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"The imagination is the only frontier left to conquer"
Hiro Protagonist Imagination
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"Kindness is a sign of strength, not weakness"
Y.T. Kindness
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"Time is the only thing that cannot be hacked"
Hiro Protagonist Time
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"The sword is mightier than the code only in the hands of someone who understands both"
Hiro Protagonist Wisdom
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"Knowledge is the only true inheritance"
Ng Education
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"The strongest bonds are forged in struggle"
Y.T. Friendship
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"Every system has a back door if you know where to look"
Hiro Protagonist Technology
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"Patience is the weapon of the wise"
Ng Patience
Y
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite it"
Y.T. Courage
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"Art is the only honest form of human expression"
Hiro Protagonist Art
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"Freedom is knowing the difference between what you must do and what you can do"
Ng Freedom
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"avatars are just code wearing faces"
Hiro Protagonist Technology
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"Money is information, information is money"
Hiro Protagonist Money
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"Names have power in both the real world and the metaverse"
Hiro Protagonist Power
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"Intelligence is not about knowing facts, it's about knowing where to find them"
Ng Knowledge
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"Sword fighting in the metaverse is not like sword fighting in reality"
Hiro Protagonist Wisdom
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"Pizza is the only food that matters"
Hiro Protagonist Life
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"The metaverse is a bad idea, but it's going to happen anyway"
Hiro Protagonist Technology
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"What matters is the story you tell about yourself"
Hiro Protagonist
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"Samurai are the ultimate professionals"
Hiro Protagonist Philosophy
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"This is the greatest hack of all time"
Hiro Protagonist Technology
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"Ninjas are professions that require intelligence"
Hiro Protagonist Philosophy
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"She's running on liquid intelligence"
Hiro Protagonist
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"Women are like monkeys"
Hiro Protagonist Humor