Triad Quotes

“Sheila Finch was born and raised in London, England. She did graduate work in medieval literature and linguistics at Indiana University. Dragged to California in 1962 by her (then) husband, she fell in love with the state and has stayed there ever since. She taught fiction writing and the literature of science fiction for thirty years at El Camino College, in Torrance, California. She lives in Long Beach with a cat and a retired racing greyhound.”
― Sheila Finch, Triad

“A computer needs words to stay the same over long periods of time. A computer can’t deal with a word that means one thing one year, another the next, or that slides from innocence into stupidity as silly did.”
― Sheila Finch, Triad

“Inglis is full of metaphors about hands because they’ve been so important to our human development. It’ll come in handy, we say. This child’s a handful, and This is getting out of hand, or You’re in good hands.”
― Sheila Finch, Triad

“Language is a virus from outer space. WILLIAM BURROUGHS”
― Sheila Finch, Triad

“Each species of intelligent life in the galaxy learned to limit its perceptions of the world it inhabited in order to preserve itself from insanity, then petrified those few chosen sensations into language. Once a child was brought up in a language system, it was impossible for her to hold a concept that couldn’t be framed in that language.”
― Sheila Finch, Triad