Neal Stephenson Quote

And Türing answered another, Rudy said. Who’s that? It’s me, Alan said. But Rudy’s joking. ‘Turing’ doesn’t really have an umlaut in it. He’s going to have an umlaut in him later tonight, Rudy said, looking at Alan in a way that, in retrospect, years later, Lawrence would understand to have been smoldering.

Neal Stephenson

And Türing answered another, Rudy said. Who’s that? It’s me, Alan said. But Rudy’s joking. ‘Turing’ doesn’t really have an umlaut in it. He’s going to have an umlaut in him later tonight, Rudy said, looking at Alan in a way that, in retrospect, years later, Lawrence would understand to have been smoldering.

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About Neal Stephenson

Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is 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 nonfiction articles about technology in publications such as Wired. He 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 (founded by Jeff Bezos) developing a spacecraft and a space launch system, and also co-founded the Subutai Corporation, whose first offering is the interactive fiction project The Mongoliad. He was Magic Leap's Chief Futurist from 2014 to 2020.