Neal Stephenson
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born
October 31, 1959
in Fort Meade, Maryland, The United States
gender
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Bruce Sterling, William Gibson
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Snow Crash   3.75 avg rating — 63,974 ratings
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1992
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42 editions
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Cryptonomicon 4.21 avg rating — 21,834 ratings
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1999
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The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer 4.15 avg rating — 17,409 ratings
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1995
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Anathem 4.18 avg rating — 10,725 ratings
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Quicksilver (Baroque Cycle, #1) 3.84 avg rating — 10,058 ratings
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2003
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The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, #2) 4.17 avg rating — 6,205 ratings
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The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, #3) 4.24 avg rating — 5,384 ratings
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Zodiac 3.63 avg rating — 5,455 ratings
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1988
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Reamde 3.92 avg rating — 4,051 ratings
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2011
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In the Beginning...was the Command Line 3.77 avg rating — 2,426 ratings
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1999
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September 2008,
Neal Stephenson
"I see this as more and more of a social class issue. I'm remembering the advent of late '60s/early '70s drug culture when I was a kid. Authority figures would try to scare us away from drugs, and whether or not we were actually using drugs, we would just laugh at them because their threats and warnings seemed so overwrought." ...More
"I see this as more and more of a social class issue. I'm remembering the advent of late '60s/early '70s drug culture when I was a kid. Authority figures would try to scare us away from drugs, and whether or not we were actually using drugs, we would just laugh at them because their threats and warnings seemed so overwrought." ...More
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“Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
“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. ”
― Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
― Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
“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.”
― Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
― Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
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