Neal Stephenson: Citations en anglais
Source: 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.”
Source: Snow Crash
“I don't even want you to nod, that's how much you annoy me. Just freeze and shut up.”
Source: Snow Crash
“Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.”
Source: Quicksilver
Source: The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
“Well, all information looks like noise until you break the code.”
Source: Snow Crash
“The best way to know someone is to have a conversation with them.”
Source: Cryptonomicon
“It is what you don't expect… that most needs looking for.”
Source: Anathem
Cord and Erasmas, Part 6, "Peregrin"
Source: Anathem (2008)
Contexte: “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
Source: Cryptonomicon
Contexte: 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…
Source: The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
