Talk:Neal Stephenson


 * the link to "In The Beginning Was the Command Line" is broken (http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html) --Jffblndng (talk) 13:04, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Some of these sections have non-identical separate pages on wikiquote (e.g., Snow Crash that need to be consolidated and/or pointed to on this main page. I am happy to work on it when I can, but any assistance is appreciated.
 * Chapter references should also be added at some point to make it easier to use and to cite check (see wikiquote template for a literary work). tartaruga 17:43, 13 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm making it a point to add chapter references with my contributions, and I'll update other quotes when time allows. Bridgman 20:30, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
 * completed chapter reference cleanup for Diamond Age, got them in chrono Bridgman 18:10, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I occasionally forget to log in before editing. Edits logged to IP addresses beginning 204.9.35 are mine. Bridgman 17:33, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Snow Crash merged in
Some content from the formerly standalone page Snow Crash has been merged with the "Snow Crash" section of this page, and the separate page turned into a redirect. —LrdChaos (talk) 14:40, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Proposed taxonomy for subdividing Baroque Cycle quotes by "books":
What do y'all think about organizing the growing body of quotes from Quicksilver, Confusion and System of the World by the 8 "books" in addition to (or instead of) the 3 "volumes"? The "cycle" has since been published in both forms, so it might serve two purposes to subdivide them thusly: one, it will be familiar to people who read the cycle via individually published "books," while still familiar to those who read it via the "volumes." Second, it breaks up the big wall of text under each "volume" heading. Bridgman 15:44, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Book 1 - Quicksilver

 * quotes
 * chapters

Book 2 - The King of the Vagabonds

 * quotes
 * chapters

Book 3 - Odalisque

 * quotes
 * chapters

Book 4 - Bonanza

 * quotes
 * chapters

Book 5 - The Juncto

 * quotes
 * chapters

Book 6 - Solomon's Gold

 * quotes
 * chapters

Book 7 - Currency

 * quotes
 * chapters

Book 8 - The System of the World

 * quotes
 * chapters


 * Your proposal looks good to me - it would be a nice organization scheme for the quotes. Of course another perhaps even better option would be to have a separate page for the Baroque Cycle, but still incorporate this scheme there and have a pointer to it from the Neal Stephenson page. ~ UDScott 16:48, 25 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Good call on a separate Baroque Cycle page. Organizing the quotes on the current page under my proposed taxonomy would needlessly create too many levels. e.g. The current first Baroque quote would be located at the bottom of this deep heirarchy: Neal Stephenson > Sourced > Baroque Cycle > Volume 1: Quicksilver > Book 1: Quicksilver
 * And the book-level header would be no larger than boldface body text. Bridgman 16:34, 2 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I would again recommend, as I did above, that the Baroque Cycle be broken out to its own page, with a link to it left on the author's page. ~ UDScott 20:39, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
 * In fact, I would also recommend splitting out some of Stephenson's other works from this page as well to their own pages. Based on the number of quotes shown here, at least 2 or 3 of the other works probably warrant having their own page. ~ UDScott 20:43, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

OK, I went ahead and moved all the Baroque Cycle quotes to the new The Baroque Cycle page. I wasn't completely sure how to word or format the link that takes you from the Baroque Cycle header/section in Neal Stephenson to the separate page. There may be a template or badge for this type of thing. Bridgman 03:27, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

WQ-linking incidental words
In 2014, a number of common words were WQ-linked (intrawiki linked?) to WQ pages devoted to those words. Sounds great, in practice, but if we're going to link the word "people" in a quote, it should link to a page (WQ or WP) about the specific people (or their defined traits) referenced in the quote, e.g. Luddites, cosplayers, Turks, left-handed people, pie-sitters, trainspotters, etc. The link probably should not go to a page comprised solely of quotes containing the word "people." So I removed most of them. In one case, the term "science fiction" was broken up and linked to the science page and the fiction page. Instead of removing the links, I fused them to link to the science fiction quotes page. And then I copied that Stephenson quote to that general science fiction page, since there were no Stephenson quotes on it yet. Other examples of words that were individually WQ-linked were "light," "necessary," and "awareness," which were not related to the context of the quotes. I did leave links to "future" and "endings" unmolested, as they were central to the quotes. Had there been a page devoted to quotes from Neal Stephenson's bad endings, I would have redirected the "endings" link to that page. Thank-you for listening to my Ted Talk Bridgman (talk) 15:29, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

Quotations about Lamina1
Hello,

I found the following quotation on page five in the actual whitepaper published by Lamina1 V1.1 a couple of days ago:

"Inexorable economic forces drive investors to pay artists as little as possible while steering their creative output in the directions that involve the least financial risk."

So far I am not sure whether this quotation could yet be safed in the collection because it´s to new and probably nowhere cited yet. There isn´t even a article about Lamina1. Maybe it´s to soon. In any case I have archived the whitepaper on the wayback.org.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220930190700/https://www.lamina1.com/docs/Lamina1_Whitepaper_1.1.pdf Yeti-Hunter (talk) 19:13, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

Quotations out of "Atmosphaera Incognita"
Hello,

I have one copy of this short novel sitting in my book shelf and could contribute but I am unsure whether this is ok. Yeti-Hunter (talk) 19:43, 30 September 2022 (UTC)