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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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“Le persone che aveva consultato gli avevano unanimemente risposto che la matematica, come il restauro degli organi a canne, era sì una bella cosa, ma che a un certo punto bisognava pur trovare un lavoro che desse da mangiare.”

Neal Stephenson libro Cryptonomicon

Cryptonomicon

Matematica , Sulle persone

“Il mondo moderno è un disastro per chi si diletta a scrivere haiku: quante sillabe ci sono in «generatore elettrico»? Nove? Non ci starebbe neanche nel secondo verso.”

Neal Stephenson libro Cryptonomicon

Cryptonomicon

Sul disastro , Sul mondo

Neal Stephenson: Frasi in inglese

“See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places”

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Neal Stephenson libro Snow Crash

Origine: Snow Crash

“Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be—or to be indistinguishable from—self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Cryptonomicon

Origine: Cryptonomicon

“The difference between stupid and intelligent people – and this is true whether or not they are well-educated – is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.”

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Origine: The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

“She's a woman, you're a dude. You're notto understand her. That'swhat she's after…. She doesn't want you to understand. She knowsimpossible. She just wants you to understand. Everything else is negotiable.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Snow Crash

Origine: Snow Crash

“Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Anathem

Origine: Anathem

“When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Snow Crash

Origine: Snow Crash

“Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Quicksilver

Origine: Quicksilver

“Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defense against the ugliness that will hem you in and come at you in so many ways.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Anathem

Part 2, Apert; Orolo to Raz
Origine: Anathem (2008)

“It was, of course, nothing more than sexism, the especially virulent type espoused by male techies who sincerely believe that they are too smart to be sexists.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Snow Crash

Origine: Snow Crash

“I don't even want you to nod, that's how much you annoy me. Just freeze and shut up.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Snow Crash

Origine: Snow Crash

“Boredom is a mask frustration wears.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Anathem

Origine: Anathem

“The full cosmos consists of the physical stuffconsciousness. Take away consciousness and it's only dust; add consciousness and you get things, ideas, and time.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Anathem

Origine: Anathem

“That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code.”

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Origine: The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

“Most countries are static, all they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Snow Crash

Origine: Snow Crash

“This made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of tiresome burdens such as educating people and doing research.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Cryptonomicon

Origine: Cryptonomicon

“Well, all information looks like noise until you break the code.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Snow Crash

Origine: Snow Crash

“This Snow Crash thing--is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?”

Juanita shrugs. “What's the difference?”

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Neal Stephenson libro Snow Crash

Origine: Snow Crash

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

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Neal Stephenson libro Cryptonomicon

Origine: Cryptonomicon

“That's funny because if anyone actually did prove the existence of God we'd just tell him 'nice proof, Fraa Bly' and start believing in God.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Anathem

Origine: Anathem

“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.”

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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.”

“I beg your pardon?" Robson says.

One thing Waterhouse likes about these Brits is that when they don't know what the hell you're talking about, they are at least open to the possibility that it might be their fault.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Cryptonomicon

Origine: Cryptonomicon

“And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Anathem

Origine: Anathem

“Gold is the corpse of value…”

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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…

“She looked at me like I was crazy. Most of my lovers do, and that's partly why they love me, and partly why they leave”

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“All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or something, and we'll latch onto anything that'll fill that niche for us.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Snow Crash

Origine: Snow Crash

“Which path do you intend to take, Nell?' said the Constable, sounding very interested. 'Conformity or rebellion?'
Neither one. Both ways are simple-minded - they are only for people who cannot cope with contradiction and ambiguity.”

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Origine: The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

“Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Cryptonomicon

Origine: Cryptonomicon

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