p2 - “the solipsism of infancy, the sexual hysterias of adolescence and entry-level adulthood, the paranoia of middle age, the dementia of late life … all working up to death, which at last turns out to be ‘sanity’”

p37 - “Same old classic dotcom dilemma, be rich forever or make a tarball out of it and post it around for free, and keep their cred and maybe self-esteem as geeks but stay more or less middle income.”

p115 - “‘I don’t do lunch. Corrupt artifact of late capitalism.’”

p130 - I have a note that this part was one of the funniest parts of any book I’ve read, but I don’t see it now, so I must have to have more context.

p163 - “late captialism is a pyramid racket on a global scale”

p233 - “morphing to millionaires. all at the wave of a mouse… Was it real? was it anything more than a dream through a lunch break, a prayer on the fly, Could we feel… off the edge of the screen, somethin meatspace and mean, that was passing us by…”

p307 - toilet of life

p338 - “The Traade Center towers were religious too. They stood for what this country worships above everything else, the market, always the holy fucking market. … They fight holy wars against competing religions like Marxism”