"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."

"A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken …"

"They damaged his nervous system with a wartime Russian mycotoxin. Strapped to a bed in a Memphis hotel, his talent bu…"

"He was less than a block from Deane's office when it hit, the sudden cellular awareness that someone was on his ass, …"

"Home. Home was BAMA, the Sprawl, the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis. Program a map to display frequency of data exc…"

"Somewhere down in the Sprawl's ferro-concrete roots, a train drove a column of stale air through a tunnel."

"Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by chi…"

"The present tense made him nervous."

"The Panther Moderns, Case had decided, were a contemporary version of the Big Scientists of his own late teens. There…"

"COUNT ZERO INTERRUPT—On receiving an interrupt, decrement the counter to zero."