Ted Chiang

I can't recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers because it's going to be hard to write all day and then come home and write fiction.

We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.

The universe began as an enormous breath being held. I am glad that it did... until this great exhalation is finished, my thoughts live on.

The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the egg or the hen. Who is older through the evolutionary process, who came first?

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.