Frasi di Neal Stephenson

Neal Town Stephenson è un autore di fantascienza statunitense noto soprattutto per le sue opere di genere postcyberpunk con una tendenza a divagare nell'esplorazione di argomenti di matematica, economia e di storia della scienza. Wikipedia  

✵ 31. Ottobre 1959

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“Boredom is a mask frustration wears.”

Neal Stephenson libro Anathem

Origine: Anathem

“The best way to know someone is to have a conversation with them.”

Neal Stephenson libro Cryptonomicon

Origine: Cryptonomicon

“Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bomc,' I said. 'We have a protractor.'
Okay, I'll go home and see if I can scrounge up a ruler and a piece of string.”

Neal Stephenson libro Anathem

Cord and Erasmas, Part 6, "Peregrin"
Origine: Anathem (2008)
Contesto: “Do you need transportation? Tools? Stuff?”
"Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs. We have a protractor."
“Okay, I’ll go home and see if I can scrounge up a ruler and a piece of string.”
“That’d be great.”

“Gold is the corpse of value…”

Neal Stephenson libro Cryptonomicon

Economics of gold farming, Thanksgiving (prologue)
Reamde (2011), Part I: Nine Dragons
Origine: Cryptonomicon
Contesto: Gold, he learned, was considered to be a reliable store of value because extracting it from the ground required a certain amount of effort that tended to remain stable over time. When new, easy-to-mine gold deposits were found, or new mining technologies developed, the value of gold tended to fall. It didn’t take a huge amount of acumen, then, to understand that the value of virtual gold in the game world could be made stable in a directly analogous way: namely, by forcing players to expend a certain amount of time and effort to extract a certain amount of virtual gold…

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