Greg Egan Quotes

• 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.

  Greg Egan

  Wagers, Pascal, Modern

  Greg Egan (2009). “Crystal Nights and Other Stories”, Subterranean

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• El consumo generalizado de cafeína explica muchas cosas sobre el siglo XX.

  Greg Egan

  Society, Use, Century

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• 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.

  Greg Egan

  Growing Up, Lying, Maturity

  Greg Egan (1995). “Distress: A Novel”, Harper Prism

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

  Greg Egan

  Fuerza

  Greg Egan (1995). “Distress: A Novel”, Harper Prism

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• Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who suffer from that.

  Greg Egan

  Suffering, Quality, Screw Ups

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• La diáspora comienza dentro de unos mil años. La mayor parte de la civilización humana se ha trasladado al interior de los ordenadores; en esencia, una rama importante de nuestra descendencia está formada por software consciente.

  Greg Egan

  Years, Branches, Diaspora

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

  Greg Egan

  Dark, Jewels, Years

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• Would I have been happier? Maybe. But then, happiness was overrated.

  Greg Egan

  Overrated, Has Beens

  Greg Egan (2010). “Distress”, p.154, Hachette UK

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• How does it feel to be seven thousand years old?
  That depends.
  On what?
  On how I want to feel.

  Greg Egan

  Years, Doe, Want

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

  Greg Egan

  Fandoms, Clubs, Social

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• Screw every known human culture.

  Greg Egan

  Culture, Screws, Humans

  Greg Egan (1995). “Distress: A Novel”, Harper Prism

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

  Greg Egan

  Cages, Tigers, Emerging

  Greg Egan (2009). “Crystal Nights and Other Stories”, Subterranean

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

  Greg Egan

  Tough Times, May, Stranger

  Greg Egan, Matthew Kressel (2017). “Bifrost n° 88: Spécial Greg Egan”, p.226, Le Bélial

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• It was almost noon when the plane touched down at the Triad airport on the outskirts of Greensboro. There was a hire car waiting for me; I waved my notepad at the dashboard to transmit my profile, then waited as the seating and controls rearranged themselves slightly, piezoelectric actuators humming. As I started to reverse out of the parking bay, the stereo began a soothing improvisation, flashing up a deadpan title: Music for Leaving Airports 11 June 2008.

  Greg Egan

  June, Airports, Car

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• If we spend all our time gazing at the wonders ahead without remembering where we're standing right now, we're going to trip and fall flat on our face, over and over again.

  Greg Egan

  Fall, Gazing, Faces

  Greg Egan (2010). “Zendegi”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain. This is what it means to be a scientist.

  Greg Egan

  Lying, Mean, Sake

  "The Demon's Passage" by Greg Egan, eidolon.net. July 1991.

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• No, that’s journalism. The truth is whatever you can’t escape.

  Greg Egan

  Journalism, Truth Is

  "Distress". Book by Greg Egan, 1995.

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• Admiro mucho a David Lynch, y creo que tomó algunas malas decisiones con Lost Highway.

  Greg Egan

  Thinking, Decision, Lost

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• Nobody wants to spend eternity alone.

  Greg Egan

  Want, Eternity

  "Axiomatic". Book by Greg Egan, eidolon.net. 1995.

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• 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.

  Greg Egan

  Artist, Years, Giants

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• 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.

  Greg Egan

  Flying, Kind, Drag

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• I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap.

  Greg Egan

  Writing, Long, Gaps

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

  Greg Egan

  Personas, Historias

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• Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders.

  Greg Egan

  Islands, Self, Inventory

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• I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't.

  Greg Egan

  Writing, Things Change, Interest

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