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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

“It is only a certain type of mind that scorns what is known by all and reads secrets as jewels.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Seveneves

“Five Thousand Years Later” (p. 749)
Seveneves (2015), Part Three

“As it turned out, imagining the fate of seven billion people was far less emotionally affecting than imagining the fate of one.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Seveneves

“Five Thousand Years Later” (p. 741)
Seveneves (2015), Part Three

“If history was any guide, those best at violence might end up ruling over everyone else.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Seveneves

“Five Thousand Years Later” (p. 684)
Seveneves (2015), Part Three

“I have been clinically depressed for most of my life. I once used drugs to fix it. Then I stopped. I stopped because I decided they were making me stupid, and I’d rather be miserable than stupid. I am what I am.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Seveneves

“Cleft” (pp. 560-561)
Seveneves (2015), Part Two

“There is a process known as parthenogenesis, literally virgin birth, by which a uniparental embryo can be created out of a normal egg. It’s been done with animals. The only reason no one ever did it with humans is because it seemed ethically dodgy, as well as completely unnecessary given the willingness of men to impregnate women every chance they got.”

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“Cleft” (pp. 552-553)
Seveneves (2015), Part Two

“We can’t make the same mistake again,” Aïda said, “of fooling ourselves. Believing in shit that isn’t real.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Seveneves

“Cleft” (p. 551)
Seveneves (2015), Part Two

“We can’t run this experiment a thousand times to see the range of different outcomes. We can only run it once. The human mind has trouble with situations like that. We see patterns where they don’t exist, we find meaning in randomness.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Seveneves

“YMIR” (pp. 423-424)
Seveneves (2015), Part Two

“We did not expect to have a backup system for the rest of the universe. We can rely upon it to be cold most of the time.”

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“YMIR” (p. 354)
Seveneves (2015), Part Two

“Hotness was a part of the human condition and it was pointless to pretend that it did not exist.”

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“Day 700” (p. 276)
Seveneves (2015), Part Two

“People who claim they are motivated by the Purpose end up behaving differently—and generally better—than people who serve other masters.”
“So it is like believing in God.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Seveneves

“Maybe yes. But without the theology, the scripture, the pigheaded certainty.”
Epilogue (p. 860)
Seveneves (2015), Part Three

“I hope that this assignment will not prove an inconvenience,” Doc continued.
“All duty is inconvenient to a greater or lesser degree, or it would not be duty.”

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“Five Thousand Years Later” (p. 648)
Seveneves (2015), Part Three

“Trying to, you know, persuade others to join our side. Trying to make the other side look bad. Just like the Internet always was.”

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“Endurance” (pp. 518-519)
Seveneves (2015), Part Two

“You could get use to anything. You got used to it and then time raced by, and before you knew it, time was up.”

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“Consolidation: Day 260” (p. 173)
Seveneves (2015), Part One

“Sportsmanship is for sportsmen.”

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Neal Stephenson

Diachronicle: day 1960 (10 December, year 5)
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (2017)

“Reader, if you don’t know what a database is, rest assured that an explanation of the concept would in no way increase your enjoyment in reading this account. If you do know, you will thank me for sparing you the details.”

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Diachronicle: Days 57–221 (winter, year 0)
Origine: The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (2017)

“You can't get most people to believe how wildly the eco-laws get broken, but if I say "More than twice the legal limit," they get comfortably outraged.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Zodiac

Origine: Zodiac (1988), Chapter 2

“My nighttime attitude is, anyone can run you down and get away with it. Why give some drunk the chance to plaster me against a car? That's why I don't even own a bike light, or one of those godawful reflective suits. Because if you've put yourself in a position where someone has to see you in order for you to be safe — to see you, and to give a fuck — you've already blown it.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Zodiac

Origine: Zodiac (1988), Chapter 5 (Taylor on riding a bike at night)

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