Quotes by : Ted Chiang

Like physical events with their causal and teleological interpretations, every linguistic event had two....

The prospect of living without interference, living in a world where windfalls and misfortunes were never....

The hush of the night sky is the silence of a graveyard.

Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all,....

Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.....

It'll be when you first learn to walk that I get daily demonstrations of the asymmetry in our relationship.....

When you watch Olympic athletes in competition, does your self-esteem plummet? Of course not. On the....

I knew it was foolhardy; men of experience say, "Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped....

Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of....

At the base of the immense pillar, tiny Babylon was in shadow. Then the darkness climbed the tower, like....