Quotes by : Ted Chiang

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

He tells people that they can no more expect justice in the afterlife than in the mortal plane, but he....

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....

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

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

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

I would have liked to experience more of the heptapods' worldview, to feel the way they feel. Then, perhaps....

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

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