He Said, She Said (con't)

Jack Kerouac said, "The only people for me are the mad ones. Mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved. Desirous of everything at the same time. The ones who never yawn or say a common place thing. But burn burn burn."

And then Harper Lee, Mark Twain, Gordon Ramsey, Juli Child, Christopher Wallace (Notorious Big), Lewis Carroll, and John von Neumann each in turn said something.

Now, Neal Stephenson replies to to John by saying, "Well, all information looks like noise until you break the code."

Here's how the conversation flowed.