124 Quotes by Greg Egan

I was six years old when my parents told me that there was a small, dark jewel inside my skull, learning to be me.

The Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan.

On his eighteenth day in the tiger cage, Robert Stoney began to lose hope of emerging unscathed.

For there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold, imposed by force, resisted or escaped.

No one grows up. That's one of the sickest lies they ever tell you. People change. People compromise. People get stranded in situations they don't want to be in… and they make the best of it. But don't try to tell me it's some kind of… glorious preordained ascent into emotional maturity. It's not.

You know what they say the modern version of Pascal's Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in case one of them turns into God.

Opponents replied that when you modeled a hurricane, nobody got wet. When you modeled a fusion power plant, no energy was produced. When you modeled digestion and metabolism, no nutrients were consumed – no real digestion took place. So, when you modeled the human brain, why should you expect real thought to occur?

There was no truth in anything he said, anything he believed. It was all just an expression of his own needs.

I have other time frames to worry about besides yours!