Ted Chiang Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. If our lives are tales that Allah tells, then we are the audience as well as players, and it is by living these tales that we receive their lessons. Exhalation

2. If you want to create the common sense that comes from twenty years of being in the world, you need to devote twenty years to the task. You can't assemble an equivalent collection of heuristics in less time; experience is algorithmically incompressible. Exhalation

3. But what happened, it was almost as if I were a theologian proving that there was no God. Not just fearing it, but knowing it for a fact. [...] It's a feeling I can't convey to you. It was something that I believed deeply, implicitly, and it's not true, and I'm the one who demonstrated it. Stories of Your Life and Others

4. Do you now understand why I say the future and the past are the same? We cannot change either, but we can know both more fully. The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate

5. Minds don't grow the way weeds do, flourishing under indifferent attention; otherwise all children in orphanages would thrive. For a mind to even approach its full potential, it needs cultivation by other minds.

6. Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know.