The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (D.O.D.O. #1)

by Neal Stephenson

he built a database. Reader, if you don’t know what a database is, rest assured that an explanation of the concept would in no way increase your enjoyment in reading this account.

If it’s good enough for a Fugger, it’s good enough for a Fucker.

Blevins gave us both a forced smile, as if somebody were tightening his belt without his consent.

unlike politicians, her job security does not depend on other people’s approval.

plausibility throws its weight around, per some freaky quantum mechanics stuff that Dr. Oda calls Feynman Diagram History Pachinko.

“I will show you how to order take-out and flush a toilet and use Instagram. Although you are older. Perhaps you would prefer Facebook.”