14 Quotes by Paul J. McAuley

Everything’s a data point.

What is the mass of a feeling? What is its wavelength, its position on the electromagnetic spectrum?

I fear that there will be no neat ending to this, in the manner of the old Greek plays. Where the Gods descend, and all is explained, and tidied away.

One day something will come through that will amaze us all.

The past doesn’t change, does it?”“It’s still there, same as it ever was. But we see it differently as we get older.

The multiverse, she said, was like an old library whose shelves were packed with books arranged by a cataloguing system that ranked them according to similarity, each book containing within its covers a story that varied only slightly from the stories of its immediate neighbours, but by increasing degrees from those of increasingly distant books.

One thing that's certain about the future: it will have more history than the present.

When people go looking for something, they often find something else.

A poster by the door to the locker room showed a Jackaroo avatar dressed as Uncle Sam, pointing a white-gloved finger under the caption I Want You for Anal Probing.