Greg Egan Quotes
born 1961 Australia
Greg Egan (born August 20, 1961) is an Australian (Perth-based) computer programmer and science fiction author.
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On his eighteenth day in the tiger cage, Robert Stoney began to lose hope of emerging unscathed.
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.
The Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan.
That was the way of the world: power would always be used, nation would subjugate nation, the weak would always be slaughtered. Everything else was pious self-delusion.
Nobody wants to spend eternity alone.
Axiomatic (1995)
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.
Zendegi (2010)
He's long ago given up hope of finding a country anywhere in the world where it was safe to tell total strangers that he had no interest in sports whatsoever.
Zendegi (2010)
"The truth is whatever you can get away with."
"No, that’s journalism. The truth is whatever you can’t escape."
Distress (1995)
To the naked eye it was a dense, solid object, but its lattice of tiny nuclei immersed in an insubstantial fog of electrons was one part matter to two hundred trillion parts empty space.
Glory (2007)
"How does it feel to be seven thousand years old?"
"That depends."
"On what?"
"On how I want to feel."
Permutation City (1993)
There are times when it’s worth putting aside the endless myopic navel-gazing that occupies so much literature, in order to look out at the universe itself and value it for what it is.
"All right. He's dead. Go ahead and talk to him."
Distress (1995)
Would I have been happier? Maybe. But then, happiness was overrated.
Distress (1995)
Screw every known human culture.
Distress (1995)
[T]hat most beings would prefer to continue to exist once they exist is not in itself a good reason for bringing them into existence, it’s merely a good argument against murder.