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Seveneves
Neal Stephenson
Snow Crash
Neal StephensonFrases célebres de Neal Stephenson
Frases de fe de Neal Stephenson
Frases de gente de Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson Frases y Citas
Seveneves. Siete Evas
Seveneves. Siete Evas
“«Pelear no es cuestión de saber hacerlo, sino de decidir hacerlo.»”
Seveneves. Siete Evas
“Había que humanizar los objetos, darles un nombre mono.”
Seveneves. Siete Evas
“Nacida en Nueva York de padres huidos de la represión política en Chile.”
Seveneves. Siete Evas
“Pero el mundo no lo llevan científicos e ingenieros, ¿es lo que pretendes decir?”
Seveneves. Siete Evas
Neal Stephenson: Frases en inglés
Fuente: The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
“When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.”
Fuente: Snow Crash
“I don't even want you to nod, that's how much you annoy me. Just freeze and shut up.”
Fuente: Snow Crash
“Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.”
Fuente: Quicksilver
Fuente: The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
“Well, all information looks like noise until you break the code.”
Fuente: Snow Crash
“The best way to know someone is to have a conversation with them.”
Fuente: Cryptonomicon
“It is what you don't expect… that most needs looking for.”
Fuente: Anathem
Cord and Erasmas, Part 6, "Peregrin"
Fuente: Anathem (2008)
Contexto: “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…”
Economics of gold farming, Thanksgiving (prologue)
Reamde (2011), Part I: Nine Dragons
Fuente: Cryptonomicon
Contexto: 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…
Fuente: The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer