124 Quotes by Greg Egan

He was a bridger. He created you to touch other cultures. He wanted you to reach as far as you could.

What am I? The data? The process that generates it? The relationships between the numbers?

Fandom is about fandom, it’s a great big social club.

In a human, or a Copy being run in the usual way, the physics of brain or computer meant that the state of mind at any one moment directly influenced the state of mind that followed.

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.

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.

I said, ‘The truth is whatever you can get away with.’ ‘No, that’s journalism. The truth is whatever you can’t escape.

We learn precisely enough to keep us from wanting to know any more.

If I’d said that to my sensible, smutty, twelve-year-old self, he would have laughed until he hemorrhaged.