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Ted Chiang

  • Darya Stupinahas quotedlast year
    It is a misconception to think that during evolution humans sacrificed physical skill in exchange for intelligence: wielding one's body is a mental activity. While my strength hasn't increased, my coordination is now well above average; I'm even becoming ambidextrous. Moreover, my powers of concentration make biofeedback techniques very effective. After comparatively little practice, I am able to raise or lower my heart rate and blood pressure.
  • Darya Stupinahas quotedlast year
    much is incorporated within patterns now that the entire universe verges on resolving itself into a picture.
  • Darya Stupinahas quotedlast year
    might determine whether mind could be spontaneously generated from matter, and understand what relates consciousness with the rest of the universe. I might see how to merge subject and object: the zero experience.
  • Darya Stupinahas quotedlast year
    Perhaps I would see the soul, the ingredient of consciousness that surpasses physicality.
  • Darya Stupinahas quotedlast year
    She, like many, had always thought that mathematics did not derive its meaning from the universe, but rather imposed some meaning onto the universe.
  • Darya Stupinahas quotedlast year
    "As all things are reflections of God, so are all names reflections of the divine name."
    "And what is an object's true name?"
    "That name which reflects the divine name in the same manner as the object reflects God."
    "And what is the action of a true name?"
    "To endow its object with a reflection of divine power."
  • Samir Đokovićhas quoted10 months ago
    God is not just, God is not kind, God is not merciful, and understanding that is essential to true devotion.
  • b8226216779has quotedlast year
    Bashaarat smiled. “Coincidence and intention are two sides of a tapestry, my lord. You may find one more agreeable to look at, but you cannot say one is true and the other is false.”
  • b8226216779has quotedlast year
    All the while I thought on the truth of Bashaarat’s words: past and future are the same, and we cannot change either, only know them more fully. My journey to the past had changed nothing, but what I had learned had changed everything, and I understood that it could not have been otherwise. If our lives are tales that Allah tells, then we are the audience as well as the players, and it is by living these tales that we receive their lessons.
  • b8226216779has quotedlast year
    the future, if Your Majesty sees fit to ask, but for myself, the most precious knowledge I possess is this:
    Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough
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