Quotes by : Ted Chiang

The physical universe was a language with a perfectly ambiguous grammar. Every physical event was an....

Freedom isn't an illusion; it's perfectly real in the context of sequential consciousness. Within the....

From the beginning I knew my destination, and I chose my route accordingly. But am I working toward an....

We don’t normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology, which means that a literate person....

...you couldn't ask a person to remain supportive through any crisis. If a man's wife were suddenly afflicted....

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....

And then there will be the times when I see you laughing. Like the time you’ll be playing with the....

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

When Arecibo is not listening to anything else, it hears the voice of creation.