Author: Neal Stephenson

Cites

• Alan Turing (1)
  • IN: Crypto-Nomicon (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There is a remarkably close parallel between the problems of the physicist and those of the cryptographer. The system on which a message is enciphered corresponds to the laws of the universe, the intercepted messages to the evidence available, the keys for a day or a message to the evidence available, the keys for a day or a message to important constants which have to be determined. The correspondence is very close, but the subject matter of cryptography is very easily dealt with by discrete machinery, physics not so easily.
    FROM: Intelligent Machinery, (1948), Essay, UK
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Crypto-Nomicon (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: This morning [Imelda Marcos] offered the latest in a series of explanations of the billions of dollars that she and her husband, who died in 1989, are believed to have stolen during his presidency. "It so coincided that Marcos had money", she said. "After the Bretton Woods agreement he started buying gold fro Fort Knox. Three thousand tons, then 4,000 tons. I have documents for these: 7,000 tons. Marcos was so smart. He had it all. It's funny. America didn't understand him.
    FROM: The New York Times, (1996), Article, US
• Confucius (1)
  • IN: The Diamond Age (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
    FROM: The Analects, (-479), Book, China
• Sir Charles Petrie (1)
  • IN: The Diamond Age (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Moral reforms and deteriorations are moved by large forces, and they are mostly caused by reactions from the habits of a preceding period. Backwards and forwards swings the great pendulum, and its alternations are not determined by a few distinguished folk clinging to the end of it.
    FROM: THE VICTORIANS, (1960), Book, UK
• Adolf Hitler (1)
  • IN: The Big U (1984) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When I think of the men who were my teachers, I realized that most of them were slightly mad. The men who could be regarded as good teachers were exceptional. It's tragic to think that such people have the power to bar a young man's way.
    FROM: from Hitler's Secret Conversations, 1941-44, translated by Norman Cameron and R. H. Stevens, (1944), NULL, Germany
• The Inmates (1)
  • IN: Zodiac (1988) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Down by the river, Down by the banks of the River Charles That's where you'll find me Along with lovers, muggers and thieves Well I love that dirty water, Oh Boston, you're my home.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK

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• Edmundo Taz Soldan (1)
  • IN: Turing's Delirium (2003) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: All information looks like noise until you break the code.
    FROM: Snow Crash, (1992), Novel, US