Michael Swanwick Quotes
born 1950 United States
Michael Swanwick (born November 18, 1950) is an American science fiction and fantasy author.
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- Science fiction authors
- Short story writers
79 quotes
Everyone dies—the rearrangement of when is a matter of only statistical interest.
Indeed, what is magic but impossible science?
Money can always be traced. It leaves a trail of slime behind it wherever it goes.
This is the price you must pay for knowledge: You must understand and acknowledge its consequences.
These hands were almost crippled digging coal so that rich men in Boston might grow even richer.
Second chances were so rare in this world to be almost miracles.
The secret of a good scam is not to get greedy.
You don’t hide information by destroying it. You hide it by swamping it with bad information.
You have to spell things out for the press—you can’t rely on them to know even the simplest things.
The hearsay of hearsay is not admissible as scholarship.
Common sense has very little to do with physics.
I want your help to destroy the universe.
People will believe in just about any kind of superstitious crap nowadays.
That is the true measure of love, you see, the evil one will stoop to for its sake...
A magician does not send messages, you know—he orchestrates reality.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Michael Swanwick (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.