22 Quotes by Cixin Liu

You are nothing more than a program. As for the rest of you, you’re either programs or idiots. I will log back on!

Their collaboration method seems similar to popular open-source practices, like the kind used to make the Linux operating system.

It's only the arrangement of matter that has changed, like a deck of cards being reshuffled.But life is like a Straight Flush: once you shuffle, it's gone.

These are the rules of the game of civilization: The first priority is to guarantee the existence of the human race and their comfortable life. Everything else is secondary.

You’re one of the calmest people I’ve ever met.”“The calmness comes from cynicism. There’s not much in the world that can make me care.

It was like a noose, indicating danger and aggression when held in the hand, but safety when wrapped around the holder's own neck.

All you need to understand right now is this: the world isn't what it used to be

Momentos como aquel eran los de mayor soledad. En el profundo silencio de la medianoche, el universo se revelaba a quien estuviese escuchando como una vasta desolación.

When it was finally quiet again, she was no longer capable of making any sound. She stared at her father's lifeless body, and the thoughts she could not voice dissolved into her blood, where they would stay with her for the rest of her life.