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From Neal Stephenson:

    YT: That's the problem with you hackers, you're always working.
    HT: No, that's what hackers _are_.

Apologies if I've misquoted.

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which book? I've never read any of his before

YT was in Snow Crash and I think that HT should be HP: Hiro Protagonist. Although I don't remember that quote in the book.

Perhaps because it is a misquote; my .txt reads:

    "What the fuck do you want?"

    "Y.T., I'm sorry about this. But something's going on. Something big time. I'm keeping one eye on a big biker named Raven."

    "The problem with you hackers is you never stop working."

    "That's what a hacker is," Hiro says.

    "I'll keep an eye on this Raven guy, too," she says, "sometime when I am

working."

    Then she hangs up.

YT was also briefly in "The Diamond Age". :)

True. That one always blew my mind as it really created a link between the two books. I was half expecting some of the characters to reappear when Cryptonomicon came out (didn't happen but Cryptonomicon has some linkage to the Baroque chronicles)

Where is YT in the Diamond Age?

She's never explicitly named; the only thing that gives her away is a single phrase: "chiseled spam"

I love literary Easter eggs like that.

Snow Crash, I believe.

Snowcrash, I presume. YT: Yours Truly, and HT? Hiro Protagonist.

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