Quotes About Ted Chiang

Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough. It has long been said that air (which others call argon) is the source of life.

Literacy encourages a culture to place more value on documentation and less on subjective experience.

Stratton reminded himself to maintain the dispassionate attitude of a scientist.

there are more significant matters to attend to, gestalts beckoning my attention.

Hilbert once said, "If mathematical thinking is defective, where are we to find truth and certitude?

Feminism would have us apologize for having that reaction. It wants to replace aesthetics with politics, and to the extent it's succeeded, it's impoverished us.

My message to you is this: Pretend that you have free will. It's essential that you behave as if your decisions matter, even though you know they don't. The reality isn't important; what's important is your belief,

left the dig because I feared that Lawson's discovery rendered the whole enterprise meaningless.

it's easier for me to appreciate the benefits of literacy and harder to recognize everything it has cost us.