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Neal Stephenson is an acclaimed American author known for his works of speculative fiction, including science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, and baroque novels. His writing explores a wide range of subjects, from mathematics and cryptography to linguistics and the history of science. He has also collaborated with his uncle and co-founded a company developing interactive fiction projects.
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About the Neal Stephenson
Neal Town Stephensonis an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction. His novels have been categorized as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk and baroque.
Stephenson’s work explores mathematics, cryptography, linguistics, philosophy, currency, and the history of science. He also writes non-fiction articles about technology in publications such as Wired. He has written novels with his uncle, George Jewsburydeveloping a spacecraft and a space launch system, and is also a cofounder of Subutai Corporation, whose first offering is the interactive fiction project The Mongoliad. He was Magic Leap’s Chief Futurist from 2014 to 2020.
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Neal Stephenson is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction, including science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, and baroque novels.
Neal Stephenson’s novels have been categorized as science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, and baroque.
Stephenson’s work explores a wide range of subjects, including mathematics, cryptography, linguistics, philosophy, currency, and the history of science.
Yes, Stephenson has written non-fiction articles about technology in publications such as Wired.
Stephenson has written novels with his uncle, George Jewsbury (,J. Frederick George,), under the collective pseudonym Stephen Bury.
Stephenson has worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company developing spacecraft and a space launch system, and he was Magic Leap’s Chief Futurist from 2014 to 2020.
Stephenson is a cofounder of Subutai Corporation, whose first offering is the interactive fiction project The Mongoliad.
7 Quotes by Neal Stephenson
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One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he’s socially inept – because everybody’s been there – but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it.
Neal StephensonAmerican science fiction writer
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The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.
Neal StephensonAmerican science fiction writer
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Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.
Neal StephensonAmerican science fiction writer
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It is the fate of operating systems to become free.
Neal StephensonAmerican science fiction writer
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Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America’s like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.
Neal StephensonAmerican science fiction writer
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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 StephensonAmerican science fiction writer
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Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment.
Neal StephensonAmerican science fiction writer