Quotes by : Ted Chiang

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

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

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

In the Principia Mathematica, Bertrand Russell and Alfred Whitehead attempted to give a rigorous foundation....

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

Past and future are the same, and we cannot change either, only know them more fully. My journey to the....

I understand the mechanism of my own thinking. I know precisely how I know, and my understanding is recursive.....

Physics admits of a lovely unification, not just at the level of fundamental forces, but when considering....

What I'll think is that you are clearly, maddeningly not me. It will remind me, again, that you won't....

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