“ Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough. Ted Chiang
“ ...you couldn't ask a person to remain supportive through any crisis. If a man's wife were suddenly afflicted with a mental illness, it would be a sin for him to leave her, but a forgivable one. To st… Ted Chiang
“ The prospect of living without interference, living in a world where windfalls and misfortunes were never by design, held no terror for him. Ted Chiang
“ I understand the mechanism of my own thinking. I know precisely how I know, and my understanding is recursive. I understand the infinite regress of this self-knowing, not by proceeding step by step en… Ted Chiang
“ And then there will be the times when I see you laughing. Like the time you’ll be playing with the neighbor’s puppy, poking your hands through the chain-link fence separating our back yards, and you’l… Ted Chiang
“ My message to you is this: pretend that you have free will. It's essential that you behave as if your decisions matter, even though you know they don't. The reality isn't important: what's important i… Ted Chiang
“ The ray of light has to know where it will ultimately end up before it can choose the direction to begin moving in""Fermat's principle sounds weird because it describes light's behavior in goal-orient… Ted Chiang
