3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years Quotes

“I know now, however, that whatever reality I am in, in the end, I carry only myself into it. Realities change, and I am the constant.”
― John Scalzi, 3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years

“know now”
― John Scalzi, 3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years

“The first was to visit myself”
― John Scalzi, 3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years

“Except for that one client who traveled to another reality expressly to walk up to the younger alternate version of themself and punch them square in the teeth. The client did not explain themself to their other version. They did not explain themself to the organization in the debrief afterward. But I never did see a client happier with their experience.”
― John Scalzi, 3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years

“not benefit from the change; the version of the client in the other reality will. Unless the client from this reality assumes the identity of themself in the other reality and gets rid of the version of themself in it. Which is possible but messy and also”
― John Scalzi, 3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years

“This is another reason it makes no sense to go to another reality to correct a very recent mistake. The client will not benefit from the change; the version of the client in the other reality will.”
― John Scalzi, 3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years

“From a physical point of view”
― John Scalzi, 3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years

“that client’s destination for the trip was the 1911 Solvay Conference in Brussels”
― John Scalzi, 3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years

“The butterfly effect is correct”
― John Scalzi, 3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years

“We are told we did not wipe out history. Instead we learned that reality branched at the juncture of the future meeting the past. Whether a new reality was created at the juncture or we plugged into one that already existed is still unresolved and”
― John Scalzi, 3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years

“We are told that the math and physics underpinning time travel were discovered and refined at ETH Zürich and not at MIT”
― John Scalzi, 3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years

“But the organization had learned over time that the presence of another human settles the clients (who are not told the internal name for them is “clients”—they are informed that they are referred to as “temponauts”). It is psychologically important”
― John Scalzi, 3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years

“In the orientation session I received when I joined the organization as a technician”
― John Scalzi, 3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years

“History” stops being accurate the moment you observe it.”
― John Scalzi, 3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years

“A scientist”
― John Scalzi, 3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years

“The thing that made time travel useless for historians is what made it profitable for tourism: Introducing information from one reality to another alters the second reality irrevocably.”
― John Scalzi, 3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years

“We did it anyway”
― John Scalzi, 3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years

“It is psychologically important”
― John Scalzi, 3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years

“The client”
― John Scalzi, 3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years

“Presumably the client goes back to their life, where everyone they know has aged, like me, only that one second. The client, however, has aged three days, or nine months, or twenty-seven years. They have been through a time machine, after all. This is how the time machine works.”
― John Scalzi, 3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years

“There is the saying that the past is a foreign country, and the saying is not wrong.”
― John Scalzi, 3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years

“They think this in no small part because they return to this reality before they can accrue too many problems in that other place and time. But then this is the very definition of a vacation, in any reality.”
― John Scalzi, 3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years

“using a very specific phrase the organization had set up at its founding to alert it that a high-ranking employee of itself had arrived from the future and had important operational information.”
― John Scalzi, 3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years

“But if you want to sneak into the 1911 Solvay Conference, you’re on your own. That conference is, shall we say, a niche enthusiasm.”
― John Scalzi, 3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years