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Neal Stephenson es un escritor de ciencia ficción que, sobre todo, escribe acerca de computadoras y tecnologías relacionadas con éstas, como la nanotecnología, aunque no pertenece a la escuela de escritores cyberpunk, como William Gibson y Bruce Sterling. En ocasiones utiliza el seudónimo Stephen Bury.

Sus novelas son generalmente catalogadas como ficción especulativa, aunque también reciben etiquetas como ciencia ficción, ficción histórica, ciberpunk, postciberpunk o barroco. Algunos de los temas recurrentes en las novelas de Stephenson son las matemáticas, la criptografía, la filosofía, la moneda y la historia de la ciencia. En ocasiones también escribe artículos de no-ficción sobre tecnología en publicaciones periódicas como la revista Wired. Wikipedia  

✵ 31. octubre 1959
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Frases célebres de Neal Stephenson

“Puedes ser el hombre más inteligente del mundo, pero cuando una mujer entra en escena, eres como cualquier otro bobo.”

Neal Stephenson

“Cualquiera que crezca viendo la televisión, que nunca vea nada de religión o filosofía, se críe en una atmósfera de relativismo moral, aprenda ética viendo escándalos sexuales en el telediario, y vaya a una universidad donde los posmodernos se desviven por demoler las nociones tradicionales de verdad y cualidad, va a salir al mundo como un ser humano bastante incapaz. Y, de nuevo, tal vez el fin de todo esto es hacernos incapaces, de modo que no nos bombardeemos mutuamente con armas nuclear.”

Neal Stephenson

“Si quieres que tus secretos sigan siéndolo más allá del fin de tu vida, debes ser futurista. Debes anticipar qué velocidad alcanzarán los ordenadores durante ese periodo. También debes estudiar la política. Porque si el planeta entero se convirtiese en una estado policial obsesionado con recuperar viejo secretos, puede que se dediquen vastos recursos al problema de factorizar grandes números compuestos.”

Neal Stephenson

“Cuando vives en una choza en lo alto de una montaña rodeado de un montón de nativos que no hablan ninguna de la aproximadamente media docena de lenguas que tu conoces debes aprender a discutir contigo mismo.”

Neal Stephenson

Frases de fe de Neal Stephenson

“El virus de la ironía está tan extendido en California como el herpes, y en cuanto estas infectado se queda en tu cerebro para siempre. Un hombre (…) puede volver a casa, arrojar sus Nikes y rezar en dirección a la Meca cinco veces al día, pero nunca podrá erradicarlo de su cuerpo.”

Neal Stephenson

“Siempre ha sentido una especie de extraña y enfermiza fascinación por las mujeres que fuman o beben mucho. (…) personas demasiado ocupadas viviendo como para preocuparse en extender la esperanza de vida.”

Neal Stephenson

“Cualquier idiota puede aprender a ejecutar más o menos los pasos básicos. Eso lleva media hora. Pero cuando ha pasado la media hora, los profesores de baile siempre esperan que te eches a volar y realices una de las milagrosas transiciones temporales que solo suceden en los musicales de Broadway, y que empieces a bailar con brillantez. Randy supone que a la gente que no se le dan bien las matemáticas se siente igual: el profesor escribe algunas ecuaciones simples en la pizarra, y diez minutos después esta derivando la velocidad de la luz en el vacío.”

Neal Stephenson

“Algunos se quejan de que el correo electrónico es impersonal… que tu contacto conmigo, durante la fase por correo de nuestra relación, estuvo mediatizado por cables y pantallas. Algunos dirían que no es tan buen medio como charlar cara a cara. Y sin embargo, nuestra visión de las cosas siempre esta mediatizado por las corneas, retinas, nervios ópticos y cierta maquinaria neurológica que toma la información de nuestros nervios ópticos y la propagan a nuestra mente. Por tanto, ¿es inferior mirar palabras en la pantalla? Yo creo que no; al menos en ese caso eres conciente de la distorsión. Mientras que, cuando ves a alguien con tus propios ojos, te olvidas de la distorsión y te imaginas que tienes una experiencia pura e inmediata.”

Neal Stephenson

“La jungla es un bonito sitio para ir de visita, pero no querrías vivir, o dejar de moverte, allí. (…) los insectos de la jungla te ven como grandes trozos de comida animada pero no muy bien defendida.”

Neal Stephenson

“No sólo no nos ofenden las imágenes manufacturadas sino que nos gustan. Prácticamente insistimos en ello. Estamos ansiosos por ser cómplices de nuestro propio engaño: por pagar dinero por el pase a un parque temático, votar a un tipo que obviamente nos está mintiendo o permanecer de pie sosteniendo la cesta que se llena de cosméticos.”

Neal Stephenson

Frases de gente de Neal Stephenson

“Hay algún patrón universal de acontecimientos que cuando se filtra a través del sistema sensorial y equipamiento de gente primitiva y supersticiosa, siempre genera las representaciones internas mentales que identifican con dioses, héroes, etc.”

Neal Stephenson

“A los de Disney se le dan mejor que a nadie las experiencias mediadas. Si entendieran qué son los sistemas operativos, y por qué los usa la gente, aplastarían a Microsoft en uno o dos años.”

Neal Stephenson

“Izzy estaba llena de gente que se orientaba hacia el extremo Asperger del espectro social y la mejor forma de hacerla hablar era preguntarle por algún detalle técnico.”

Neal Stephenson libro Seveneves

Seveneves. Siete Evas

Neal Stephenson Frases y Citas

“Discutir con desconocidos anónimos en internet es un juego de idiotas porque casi siempre resultan ser – o son indistinguibles de – quinceañeros petulantes con cantidades infinitas de tiempo libre.”

Neal Stephenson

“Tiene la misma sensación de mareo, eléctrica, nauseabunda y hiperactiva que siempre convierte el combate en una experiencia tan estimulante.”

Neal Stephenson

“Uno de los aspectos útiles del servicios militar es que te acostumbras a que hombres ruidosos y ordinarios te digan groserías.”

Neal Stephenson

“Vivir en una comuna donde los ideales de la paz, el amor y la armonía se mantenían de boquilla les había privado de válvulas de escape normales y socialmente admitidas para su obsesión, tendía a salir de otros modos, invariablemente más siniestros.”

Neal Stephenson

“La palabra, al final, es el único sistema para codificar los pensamientos - el único medio - que no es fungible, que se niega a disolverse en el torrente devorador de los medios electrónicos.”

Neal Stephenson

“Creo que lo que Camila quiere decir es que ciertos tipos de personalidad, si se llevan al extremo, son tan negativos como una enfermedad mental; si no peores”

Neal Stephenson libro Seveneves

Seveneves. Siete Evas

“Antes de esta reunión escribí media docena de cartas de despedida a viejos amigos y familiares —dijo—, y cuando terminemos, voy a seguir con la lista. Quizá logre escribir la mitad de las cartas antes de que los destinatarios mueran por la Lluvia Sólida. Supongo que pretendo decir que pienso como el muerto andante que soy en realidad; y eso está mal. Debería estar pensando en lo que tú estás pensando: el futuro al que vosotros y algunos pocos más podréis aspirar si todo esto sale bien. —¿Crees”

Neal Stephenson libro Seveneves

Seveneves. Siete Evas

“Henry, que en aquel momento tenía once años, no había prestado atención al proceso de elevar el imponente cohete hasta su posición vertical porque se distrajo viendo un par de perros callejeros copulando a unos cien metros del punto de lanzamiento. El”

Neal Stephenson libro Seveneves

Seveneves. Siete Evas

“«Pelear no es cuestión de saber hacerlo, sino de decidir hacerlo.»”

Neal Stephenson libro Seveneves

Seveneves. Siete Evas

“Había que humanizar los objetos, darles un nombre mono.”

Neal Stephenson libro Seveneves

Seveneves. Siete Evas

“Nacida en Nueva York de padres huidos de la represión política en Chile.”

Neal Stephenson libro Seveneves

Seveneves. Siete Evas

“Algunos dicen que la bipolaridad es una adaptación útil. Cuando las cosas van mal, te deprimes, te retiras, conservas energía. Cuando las cosas van bien, te mueves con gran energía. —¿Y”

Neal Stephenson libro Seveneves

Seveneves. Siete Evas

“amística, un término acuñado hacía eones por un antropólogo moirano para referirse a las elecciones que hacían las diferentes culturas en cuanto a qué tecnologías formarían parte de su vida y cuáles no.”

Neal Stephenson libro Seveneves

Seveneves. Siete Evas

“Pero el mundo no lo llevan científicos e ingenieros, ¿es lo que pretendes decir?”

Neal Stephenson libro Seveneves

Seveneves. Siete Evas

“El desarrollo de software comparte con el deporte profesional la característica de lograr que los treintañeros se sientan decrépitos”

Neal Stephenson libro Snow Crash

Snow Crash

“Se podían haber planteado todo tipo de argumentos filosóficos sobre si ese enfoque era mejor o peor que lo que estaban haciendo en realidad, pero, en el fondo, la filosofía no contaba demasiado.”

Neal Stephenson libro Seveneves

Seveneves. Siete Evas

Neal Stephenson: Frases en inglés

“Any property that's open to common use gets destroyed. Because everyone has incentive to use it to the max, but no one has incentive to maintain it.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Zodiac

Fuente: Zodiac (1988), Chapter 8

“Any event largely organized by elementary school teachers was likely to come off extremely well from a logistical and crowd-control standpoint.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Seveneves

"The Seven Sisters"
Seveneves (2015), Part One

“Richard’s ex-girlfriends were long gone, but their voices followed him all the time and spoke to him, like Muses or Furies. It was like having seven superegos arranged in a firing squad before a single beleaguered id, making sure he didn’t enjoy that last cigarette.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Reamde

Thanksgiving (prologue)
Reamde (2011), Part I: Nine Dragons

“I think visual literacy and media literacy is not without value, but I think plain old-fashioned text literacy and mathematical literacy are much more powerful and flexible ways to organize your mind.”

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Neal Stephenson

Neal Stephenson coins the term "text literacy" during interview for the article "Pushing the Edge With 'Diamond Age' Nano-Machines," Associated Press, May 10, 1995

“We need brains, is the bottom line," Ivy said. "We're not hunter-gatherers anymore. We're all living like patients in the intensive care unit of a hospital. What keeps us alive isn't bravery, or athleticism, or any of those other skills that were valuable in a caveman society. It's our ability to master complex technological skills. It is our ability to be nerds. We need to breed nerds.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Seveneves

"Cleft"
Seveneves (2015), Part Two

“"It might interest you to know that our state is tired of being used as a chemical toilet so that people in Utah can have plastic lawn furniture."
"I can't believe an assistant attorney general came right out and said that."
"Well, I wouldn't say it in public."”

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Neal Stephenson libro Zodiac

"Cohen," the assistant attorney general of an unnamed East Coast state meeting covertly with Sangamon Taylor near the Jersey Shore. Chapter 11
Zodiac (1988)

“One of the problems, hanging out with me, is that I can turn any topic into a toxic horror story. I've lost two girlfriends and a job by reading an ingredients label out loud, with annotations, at the wrong time.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Zodiac

Fuente: Zodiac (1988), Chapter 1

“The Walmart was like a starship that had landed in the soybean fields. … They went inside. The young ones shuffled to a stop as their ironic sensibilities, which served them in lieu of souls, were jammed by a signal of overwhelming power.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Reamde

Thanksgiving (prologue)
Reamde (2011), Part I: Nine Dragons

“I wanted to create an interesting scifi universe that didn’t violate the laws of physics, and that means that you’re limited to staying inside the solar system. I also wanted to get away from the ship-centric style of science fiction. Star Trek is ship-centric and it’s all about the Enterprise — there are many other examples. What if we decided to get away from the obsession with ships and instead thought about big machines and structures that might be used to create a civilization inside the solar system?”

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About Seveneves, "Here's How Space Megastructures Will Look, According to Neal Stephenson" in Gizmodo, interviewed by Annalee Newitz, May 20, 2015 (pre-Zero)

“Quantum interference—the crosstalk among similar quantum states—knits the different versions of your brain together."
"You're saying that my consciousness extends across multiple cosmi," I said. "That's a pretty wild statement."
"I'm saying all things do," Orolo said. "That comes with the polycosmic interpretation. The only thing exceptional about the brain is that it has found a way to use this.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Anathem

Part 8, "Orithena"
Anathem (2008)

“I guess that people like to think they are not only living but propagating their way of life."
"That's right. People have a need to feel that they are part of some sustainable project. Something that will go on without them. It creates a feeling of stability. I believe that the need for that kind of stability is as basic and as desperate as some of the other, more obvious needs. But there's more than one way to get it.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Anathem

Orolo and Raz, Part 4, "Anathem"
Anathem (2008)

“The launch vehicle, a fantailed Soyuz-FG, had been towed horizontally across the steppe on a special train, complete with smoke-belching locomotive, to the launch pad…. The contrast with the NASA way of doing things was stark…. Doob’s youngest son was distracted by the sight of stray dogs copulating a hundred meters away from ground zero. The launch bunker, shockingly close to the pad, had a little vegetable patch where the technicians were growing cucumbers and tomatoes.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Seveneves

“Pioneers and Prospectors"
Seveneves (2015), Part One

“Three days before launch, the hedge fund man had been nipped by a stray dog while rehearsing a launch pad escape sequence, and everything had been thrown into disarray as the dog was chased across the steppe by militiamen in wheeled vehicles, locals on horseback, and a helicopter gunship. After they had run it to ground they had shipped it off to a veterinary lab to be checked for rabies.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Seveneves

"Pioneers and Prospectors"
Seveneves (2015), Part One

“…he had found an image of one of the big Western-style business hotels along the waterfront: one of those places where it was possible to be a white person without attracting one’s own personal Stonehenge of cataleptic, openmouthed gapers.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Reamde

Xiamen, Day 4
Reamde (2011), Part I: Nine Dragons

“Why Baroque? Because it is set in the Baroque, and it IS baroque. Why Cycle? Because I am trying to avoid the T-word ("trilogy"). In my mind this work is something like 7 or 8 connected novels. These have been lumped together into three volumes because it is more convenient from a publishing standpoint, but they could just as well have been put all together in a single immense volume or separated into 7 or 8 separate volumes. So to slap the word "trilogy" on it would be to saddle it with a designation that is essentially bogus. Having said that, I know everyone's going to call it a trilogy anyway.”

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Baroque Cycle entry in now-defunct MetaWeb

“This was part of Corporation 9592’s strategy; they had hired psychologists, invested millions in a project to sabotage movies—yes, the entire medium of cinema—to get their customers/players/addicts into a state of mind where they simply could not focus on a two-hour-long chunk of filmed entertainment without alarm bells going off in their medullas telling them that they needed to log on to T’Rain and see what they were missing.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Reamde

Day 15
Reamde (2011), Part II: American Falls

“IF YOU ARE ACCUSTOMED to reading works of speculative fiction and enjoy puzzling things out on your own, skip this Note. Otherwise, know that the scene in which this book is set is not Earth, but a planet called Arbre that is similar to Earth in many ways.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Anathem

Note to the Reader
Fuente: Anathem (2008)

“By this point he had seen enough of them to know that they were cooler under pressure, and better to be within a tight spot, than 999 out of 1,000 women. But their presence obliged him to divert a significant fraction of his attention into being considerate of their needs, responding to their inquiries, and keeping them alive.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Reamde

Day 21
Reamde (2011), Part II: American Falls

“He kept flinching. The low sun shone in the face of a two-hundred-foot-tall wind turbine in the field across the crick, and its blades cast long scything shadows over them. … The sun above blinking on and off with each cut of a blade. … Something about their being in motion, in a place where everything else was almost pathologically still, seized the attention; they always seemed to be jumping out at you from behind corners.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Reamde

Thanksgiving (prologue)
Reamde (2011), Part I: Nine Dragons

“Kath Two was Survey. Whether or not this made her military was a topic of almost theological complexity.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Seveneves

"Five Thousand Years Later"
Seveneves (2015), Part Three

“Tris was pudgy and not especially good looking, but she had the personality of a beautiful girl because she'd been raised in a math.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Anathem

Part 10, "Messal." (A "math" is a co-ed academic/research monastery. Most of the novel takes place in maths.)
Anathem (2008)

“But Richard had already gone the cop route and found it not nearly as productive as driving around with a sledgehammer and retaining the services of men with oxyacetylene torches.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Reamde

Day 6
Reamde (2011), Part II: American Falls

““If you show her too much favor she will be punished. If you touch her, we’re all dead,” Ty said.
“Why?” Einstein asked.
“Because this is one of those cultures that is psychotic about female reproductive organs.””

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Neal Stephenson libro Seveneves

"Five Thousand Years Later"
Seveneves (2015), Part Three

“The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.”

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A Conversation With Neal Stephenson http://www.sfsite.com/10b/ns67.htm

“Ha ha noob, you are pwned by troll. I have encrypt all your file. Leave 1000 GP at below coordinates and I give you key”

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Neal Stephenson libro Reamde

The REAMDE virus’ accompanying message, Day 1
Reamde (2011), Part I: Nine Dragons

“Sokolov put the odds at 100 percent that Peter would, sooner or later, do something stupid and cause enormous trouble. Peter would do this because he believed he was clever and because he thought only of himself. It would be safer to take him out and shoot him now, but disposing of the body would be difficult and the shock of it would probably disturb the equilibrium of Zula.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Reamde

Day 2
Reamde (2011), Part I: Nine Dragons

“So in order to accommodate the Pioneers who would begin arriving in a few weeks, the Arkitects sent up Scouts. The qualifications for being a Scout seemed to be a shocking level of physical endurance, a complete disregard for mortal danger, and some knowledge of how to exist in a space suit.
All of them were Russian.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Seveneves

"Scouts"
Seveneves (2015), Part One

“There is nearly always a chthonic link. The object-imbued-with-numinous-power tends to be of mineral origin: gold, perhaps mined from a special vein, or a jewel of extraordinary rarity, or a sword forged from a shooting star. I am merely describing pulp. But the vast popularity…attests to the power of these motifs to seize the reader’s attention, down at the level of the reptilian brain, even as the cerebrum is getting sick.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Reamde

Donald Cameron, flashback to development of T'Rain, Day 2
Reamde (2011), Part I: Nine Dragons

“The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason. It was waxing, only one day short of full. The time was 05:03:12 UTC. Later it would be designated A+0.0.0, or simply Zero.
An amateur astronomer in Utah was the first person on Earth to realize that something unusual was happening. Moments earlier, he had noticed a blur flourishing in the vicinity of the Reiner Gamma formation, near the moon’s equator. He assumed it was a dust cloud thrown up by a meteor strike. He pulled out his phone and blogged the event.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Seveneves

Opening paragraphs of the novel; "The Age of the One Moon"
Seveneves (2015), Part One

“The mere suggestion that it might be possible to look at a thing from more than one point of view was infuriating to these people.”

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Neal Stephenson libro Seveneves

"Five Thousand Years Later"; referring to the Diggers
Seveneves (2015), Part Three

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