124 Quotes by Greg Egan

It was the kind of behavior that could only occur whenpeople had been trapped for thousands of years, staring at thesame sights, fetishizing everything around them, spiralingdown toward the full-blown insanity of religion. You didn’tneed gates and barbed wire to make a prison. Familiarity couldpin you to the ground, far more efficiently.

The only way up is up.

-“I’ve never believed in wormholes,” Fatima confessed. “Take two in relative motion and you’ve got a time machine. And I definitely don’t believe in time machines.” -“Maybe you can believe in just one wormhole at a time,” Gabrielle replied, deadpan.

Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people.

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.

I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants.

I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before.