Ted Chiang, Stories Of Your Life And Others Quotes
The prospect of living without interference, living in a world where windfalls and misfortunes were never by design, held no terror for him.
From the beginning I knew my destination, and I chose my route accordingly. But am I working toward an extreme of joy, or of pain? Will I achieve a minimum, or a maximum?
Like physical events with their causal and teleological interpretations, every linguistic event had two possible interpretations: as a transmission of information and as the realization of a plan.